sarcasting

Updated: May 26, 2025

But we blocked him off, and he saw that he was mistaken about going he couldn't do it. He exploded into the maddest cursings and revilings, then, and, unlashing his prisoner from his back, stood him up, all bound and helpless; then drew his knife, and said to us with a light of sarcasting triumph in his eye: "I may not carry him away, you say yet he is mine, none will dispute it.

Mark Twain - Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc — Volume 2