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Her tormentor was not the person she had evidently expected it to be, and her courage rose accordingly. Again the boy laughed insolently and the girl's fists clenched involuntarily as she looked up into the sneering face above her and realized that after all she could do him no harm for he was perched in the branches of a tree just out of reach over her head.
The pretensions of some of them are evident, but only evident to be ridiculous like the pretensions of those who, newly enriched by trade, decline all but what they describe as carriage-company." "The poor gentry are eager enough to marry money, but that does not prevent them sneering at the way the money is made," Miss Buff said.
He did not however, choose to take any notice of this: but, having bit his nails some time in manifest confusion, he turned very quick to me, and in a sneering tone of voice, said, "For my part, I was most struck with the country young lady, Miss Prue; pray what do you think of her, Ma'am?" "Indeed, Sir," cried I, very much provoked, "I think-that is, I do not think any thing about her."
After Gaut, for such he was called among his acquaintance, had leisurely run his eye from window to window of the many lighted apartments of the house, and scanned, as he did, with many a sneering smile, the appearances within, as long as suited his pleasure, he boldly walked in, and, with all the assurance of the most favored, proceeded to mingle with the company.
I was arrested suddenly by a curious disdainful, even sneering smile which played upon his face as he looked at Vaudreuil and Bigot. There was in it more scorn than malice, more triumph than active hatred.
With these ideas, and the healthy satisfaction they engendered, his heart grew light and joyous, his eyes more lustrous, his step gay and elastic, and his whole appearance was that of man at his best, man, as God most surely meant him to be not a rebellious, feebly-repining, sneering wretch, ready to scoff at the very sunlight, but a being both brave and intelligent, strong and equally balanced in temperament, and not only contented, but absolutely glad to be alive, glad to feel the blood flowing through the veins, glad and grateful for the gifts of breathing and sight.
The road all on this side of the country is very populous, and is full of potters and earth makers; that is to say, people that tempered the earth for the China ware; and, as I was going along, our Portuguese pilot, who had always something or other to say to make us merry, came sneering to me, and told me, he would shew the greatest rarity in all the country; and that I should have this to say of China, after all the ill humoured things I had said of it, that I had seen one thing which was not to be seen in all the world beside.
Miss Bingley saw all this likewise; and, in the imprudence of anger, took the first opportunity of saying, with sneering civility: "Pray, Miss Eliza, are not the shire Militia removed from Meryton? They must be a great loss to your family."
It would be a fight of brawn and brain, unless and those few who knew the "inner story" spoke softly among themselves. An ox in strength, gigantic in build, with a face that for days had worn a sneering smile of triumph, O'Grady was already picked as a ten-to-one winner.
"What is that?" asked Harcourt from the front seat, where he was driving. "Do you know," cried Lottie, "that Mr Hemstead thinks everything we see, even to nature's smallest trifles, an 'expression of the Divine creative thought." "Is that scene such an expression?" asked Harcourt, with a sneering laugh, in which the others joined.
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