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Costello could not resist a little self-gratulatory smile. 'All may come right yet, she thought to herself, 'if that wilful boy will only come over. "I think you are right," she said aloud. "Possibly he may come over, and then you will have an opportunity of speaking to him, perhaps."
Generous, noble girl! had I been an emperor, I would have bowed down to you in worship; but to debase, to degrade you, no! no!" "Is there debasement in love?" murmured Lucy. Clifford gazed upon her with a sort of enthusiastic and self-gratulatory pride; perhaps he felt to be thus loved and by such a creature was matter of pride, even in the lowest circumstances to which he could ever be exposed.
"Well said, my Hector of Highways;" cried Tomlinson; and then helping himself to the wine, while he employed his legs in removing the supine forms of Scarlet Jem and Long Ned, he continued the Homeric quotation, with a pompous and self-gratulatory tone, "'So flourish these when those have passed away!" "We managed to get rid of our friends," began Clifford
He was intensely self-satisfied, and expressed his high idea of his own exploit by self-gratulatory "grumphs," as after describing many mystic circles, and scraping up the fair Marseilles quilt on some plan of his own, he brought his nose and tail together in a satisfactory position in his nest, and we passed our first night in London in dreamless and profound sleep.
He was very full now of the remembrance of Ruth; and yet he was also most thankful, most self-gratulatory, that he had gone no further in his admiration of her that he had never expressed his regard in words that no one, as he believed, was cognisant of the incipient love which had grown partly out of his admiration, and partly out of his reason.
And again, can that be required which, according to your showing, is not adequate? You will perhaps answer, 'God may please to take what little he can have; and this brings me to the fault in the whole idea. Punishment is nowise an offset to sin. Foolish people sometimes, in a tone of self-gratulatory pity, will say, 'If I have sinned I have suffered. Yes, verily, but what of that?
Emery was one of the women who are always well served by "tradespeople," as she now called them, "and a good reason why," she was wont to explain with self-gratulatory grimness. The Judge waited, one hand on the door-knob, squaring his jaw over his muffler, and listening with a darkening face to the interminable succession of purchases.
Pricker, observing with intense satisfaction that the king had turned and was advancing in the direction of his house, stepped forward with a self-gratulatory smile, and placed himself immediately at the side of the king's path. But the king passed by without noticing him.
It has been too long boasted as the pride of England, that out of a vast multitude of men, confessed to be in evil case, it was possible for individuals, by strenuous effort, and rare good fortune, occasionally to emerge into the light, and look back with self-gratulatory scorn upon the occupations of their parents, and the circumstances of their infancy.
"Well said, my Hector of Highways;" cried Tomlinson; and then helping himself to the wine, while he employed his legs in removing the supine forms of Scarlet Jem and Long Ned, he continued the Homeric quotation, with a pompous and self-gratulatory tone, "'So flourish these when those have passed away!" "We managed to get rid of our friends," began Clifford
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