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To what purpose is it all? perhaps that in the future white men may point at and call me, sneeringly, 'a nigger millionaire, or condescend to borrow money of me. Ah! often, when some negro-hating white man has been forced to ask a loan at my hands, I've thought of Shylock and his pound of flesh, and ceased to wonder at him.
The Yilderim undertaking, as the Bagdad scheme was described, did not meet with the full acceptance of the Turks. The 'mighty Jemal', as the Germans sneeringly called the Commander of the Syrian Army, opposed it as weakening his prospects, and even Enver, the ambitious creature and tool of Germany, postponed his approval.
An' they've took Bennie; Bennie ain't cryin' but he's a-holdin' to Ma's hand like a baby. Oh," he laughed sneeringly, "it's one grand little family group that they make!" Rose-Marie sat down gingerly upon the edge of the chair. She did not relish the prospect of spending any time alone with Jim, but a certain feeling of pride kept her from leaving the place.
This action on the part of Garvey was unethical and dangerous, and there were men among the dozen in the room who looked sneeringly at Calumet, or to one another whispered the significant words, "greenhorn" and "tenderfoot." Others, to whom the proprietor had spoken concerning Calumet, looked at him in surprise.
'P'haps some of the other "believers" would like to, said the young man sneeringly, looking round upon the disciples. As no one seemed desirous of availing himself of this offer, the man returned the bottle regretfully to his pocket.
Staring down his extended legs he let out a grunt as much as to say, "That's all very fine, but you can't throw dust in my eyes." At last I was exasperated into saying, "Why don't you put the matter at rest by talking to Hermann?" and I added sneeringly: "You don't expect me perhaps to speak for you?" To this he said, very loud for him, "Would you?"
It was a big, two-story building, the lower half being "jest cobblestones," as the neighbors sneeringly remarked, while the upper half was "decent pine lumber." The lower floor of this main building consisted of a single room with a great cobble-stone fireplace in the center of the rear wall and narrow, prison-like windows at the front and sides.
"If I know anything about you, you won't do anything that would give Miss Benham to Trevison." "That's right; I'd rather see her married to you that would be the refinement of cruelty!" He laughed sneeringly and stepped out of the door. Waiting a short time, the woman heard his step in the hall. Then she darted to the door, locked it, and leaned against it, panting.
What will you bet that he's the rector of Tyrrell's Pass? "'What odds will you take that he's Wolfe Tone? inquired I, sneeringly. "'Five to one against the rector, said he, exultingly. "'An elephant's molar to a toothpick against Wolfe Tone, cried I. "'Ten pounds even that I'm nearer the mark than you, said Tom, with a smash of his fist upon the table. "'Done, said I, 'done.
He did not like her; and often spoke of her sneeringly as using an unknown tongue. His wife contended with him slightly at first in regard to Mrs. De Lisle; but soon ceased to notice his captious remarks. In Mrs.
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