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"Huron, do your worst!" exclaimed the excited Heyward, forgetful that a double stake was involved in his life; "you and your vengeance are alike despised." "Will the white man speak these words at the stake?" asked Magua; manifesting, at the same time, how little faith he had in the other's resolution by the sneer that accompanied his words.
The religion of our day, and country, is no more exempt from the sneer of the future than others have been. When India was supreme, Brahma sat upon the world's throne. When the sceptre passed to Egypt, Isis and Osiris received the homage of mankind. Greece, with her fierce valor, swept to empire, and Zeus put on the purple of authority.
"You can if you want to, but it is better not to," rejoined Holmes, simply, as though not observing the sneer, "because the ripple represents the outer lines of the angle of disturbance in the water; and as any one of the sides to an angle is greater than the perpendicular from the hypothenuse to the apex, you'd merely be going the long way.
Grey's wife," she said to herself and resolved that the grand University magnates should find out nothing in her unworthy of that name nothing that could make people say, even the most ill-natured of them and, alas! she had lately come to learn that the world is filled, not, as she thought, with only bad and good, but with an intermediate race, which is merely ill-natured say, with a sneer, that Dr.
"Lambernier," said Rousselet, turning up his lips with a look of contempt, "I must admit that, for a man well brought up, you have made most disgusting remarks." "To say that I eat the horses' oats!" roared the coachman. "I ought to have said that you drank them," replied Lambernier, with his usual sneer.
And I warn you right now you'll have to do your best, unless you want to be left in the lurch, because I'm learning fast." Step-hen certainly looked very much disappointed. There was a sneer, as well as a shadow on his face, as he remarked scornfully: "Huh! you take water, eh, Bumpus?"
Let me take the young one. I have no wish to harm you." She said, with a strange sneer, "Ah! so you have no wish to harm me!" "Let me have the other, madam; 'tis monsieur the provost who wills it." She repeated with a look of madness, "There is no one here." "I tell you that there is!" replied the executioner. "We have all seen that there are two of you."
"I think I shall go to New York." "What for?" "Seek my fortune, as so many have done before me." "They didn't always find it!" said Mrs. Brent with a cold sneer. "Is there any other reason?" "Yes; it's chiefly on account of what you told me yesterday. You said that I was dependent upon you." "So you are." "And that I wasn't even entitled to the name of Brent." "Yes, I said it, and it's true."
But you cannot understand him, unless you think of him as a Lord of Vision lonely in a world wholly bereft of it: a man for whom all skies were transparent, and the solid earth without opacity, but with the luminous worlds shining through wherein Apollo walks, and all the Masters of Light and Beauty; unless you think of him as a Lord of Vision moving in an outer world, a phase of civilization, old, tired, dying, dull as ditch-water, without imagination, with no little vestige of poetry, no gleam of aspiration, with wit enough to sneer at him, and no more; by no means with wit enough to allow him to save it from itself and from ruin.
She saw a flush slowly mount to his face. Evidently he had said more than he had intended. "Well, if I am?" he returned, his lips writhing in a sneer. "Him beatin' me shootin' that way don't prove nothin'." She was now becoming convinced of her cleverness.
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