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Then if people differ from him, he smiles at them the benign smile of superior wisdom, and says superciliously, "Ah, I see you don't understand political economy!"
They gave superciliously, handing down their alms from a top lofty altitude of Tory superiority, and the Radicals down below sniffed or growled even while they grudgingly took these gifts that was all nonsense. These aristocratic or tuft-hunting philanthropists were the veriest duffers.
"I I beg your pardon I I " Dick got no further, for an officer's servant was at his elbow, looking at him rather superciliously as he said "This way!" For one moment Richard flinched, and thought of making a run for it; the next he was following the man. "Why not?" he muttered. "I may as well, if they want me to. Why not play for my living now?"
This was more than the little heart-breaker of Buena Vista was accustomed to! "Oh, Mr. Starbuck!" she called, in her laziest voice. He turned almost impatiently. "Since you're so civil and pressing, I thought I'd tell you I was just runnin' over to Aunt Chloe's," she said dryly. "I should think it was hardly the proper thing for a young lady to do at this time of night," he said superciliously.
Her eyes watered slightly, and then she had control and the present moment. She excoriated her maudlin, womanly tendencies and worried that her refusal to fall apart in front of Michael was catching up with her now. Could the cold tacit hubris that she superciliously blasted onto Michael a day after the shock dissipated have just been the facade of a woman ready for a nervous breakdown?
But I enter the list for others, my kinsmen in composing. Authors, to speak it generally, are an ill-used race, because judged hastily, often superciliously, for evil or for good. Without question, they are guided by their teachers; and the grand fault of these is, their everlasting hurry. At another necessary failing of reviewers I would only delicately hint.
Jingling and jogging, the train of horses broke into a trot across the meadow and toward the grove of trees that marked the bank of the pond. Here there was an old cabin, formerly used by the riders, but long since abandoned. Deer trotted out of their way and stood at a distance to look curiously. A sleepy bear waddled out of the trees, eyed them superciliously and then trotted clumsily away.
"The fact is, Brimmer, I think of going with Keene on this expedition." "Indeed!" said Brimmer superciliously. "Yes," said Markham, coloring slightly. "You see, we've got news. Tell him, Dick." "The Storm Cloud got in yesterday from Valparaiso and Central American ports," said Keene, with glowing cheeks. "I boarded her, as usual, last night, for information.
He then meandered into a long dissection of Genesis i., appearing to feel particularly aggrieved by the fact of the moon being said to "rule the night," though I could not see how this was relevant to the Christian scheme of salvation; and a superb policeman, who had listened for a moment to Mr. Ramsey's astronomical lucubrations, evidently shared my feelings and passed on superciliously.
There never was and it ain't too much to say there never will be another case like it." During this lecture, and a great deal more, Sir Bale leaned back in his chair, with his legs extended, his heels on the ground, and his arms folded, looking sourly up in the face of a tall lady in white satin, in a ruff, and with a bird on her hand, who smiled down superciliously from her frame on the Baronet.
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