Vietnam or Thailand ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
Updated: May 13, 2025
Mittyford had a bald head, neat eye-glasses, a fair family income, a chatty good-fellowship at the Faculty Club, and a chilly contemptuousness in his rhetoric class-room at Leland Stanford, Jr., University. He wrote poetry, which he filed away under the letter "P" in his letter-file. Dr. Mittyford grudgingly took Mr. Wrenn about, to teach him what not to enjoy.
But, not to mention that there is a certain contemptuousness of phraseology, from which it Is difficult for a critic to abstain, in the review of Endymion, I do not think that the writer has given it its due praise.
Tannhäuser springs to his feet, the old contemptuousness toward these companions, compends of density, conventionality, and hypocrisy! curving his lip. "Oh, Walther, singing as you have done, how direly have you misrepresented love! Through such languors and timidities as you describe, the world would unmistakably go dry!
There was but one way in which Diane could have put herself right with him: she could have swept the charge aside, with a serene contemptuousness of denial. Had she done so, her assertion would have found his own eagerness to believe in her ready to meet it half-way. As it was, alas! her admissions had been damning. Where she acknowledged the smoke, there surely must have been the fire!
But as then it had only been two days since I had been bruised and beaten under a hasty and false apprehension of facts, my caution was somewhat aroused. Moreover I remembered sensitively his contemptuousness of manner to me at my last interview in his office.
I don't mind a nice little gathering of good friendly folks such as we used to have in Degraw street at the church socials " "Church socials!" His wife's interruption took Hilbrough's breath. She muttered rather than spoke these few words, but with a contemptuousness of inflection that was most expressive.
Ackroyd told me so yesterday. 'And her sister's at work too? 'Safe enough. 'Is the workmen there still? 'No, they're all out. Safe enough. Mr. Bower seemed to find a satisfaction in repeating the significant phrase. He chuckled disagreeably. 'It looks queer, remarked his wife, with a certain contemptuousness. 'It looks uncommon queer. I wonder whether old Mrs.
"It's a talisman," replied Paul, who, having come across the word in a book, had at once applied it to his treasure. "Lor' lumme!" cried Barney Bill. "And it was for that bit of stuff yer ran the risk of being flayed alive by yer loving parents?" Paul was quick to detect a note of admiration underlying the superficial contemptuousness of the words.
"Noticed the way the Chronicle is jumping on me with all four feet, Plonny?" he asked, with rather a forced laugh. "Why can't those fellows forget it and leave me alone?" By a slow facial manoeuvre, Mr. Neal contrived to make his cigar look out upon the world with contemptuousness unbearable. "Why, nobody pays no attention to them fellers' wind, Mr. West.
He had also a most arrogant way of looking down his nose, and of tugging, intolerantly, at his long, drooping moustache. There was little need for him to assume the frigid contemptuousness of Mrs. Gurley's manner: his mere presence, the very unseeingness of his gaze, inspired awe. Tales ran of his wrath, were it roused; but few had experienced it.
Word Of The Day
Others Looking