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He smiled superciliously as he regretted that his music was not of that description, and Charlotte felt ready to sink into the earth at the indignity she had done the guitar in forgetting that it could accompany anything but such songs as Valancourt sang to Emily.
They entered the sitting room and the lady glanced superciliously about the apartment. "Hum ha!" barked Captain Elkanah. "Ahem! Mr. Ellery, I trust you're being made comfortable. The parish committee are hum ah anxious that you should be. Yes?" The minister said that he was very comfortable indeed. "It isn't what you've been used to, we know," observed Miss Annabel. "Mr.
Emma in particular she could not contemplate in relation to a German husband. In any case one day these girls would be middle-aged... as Clara looked now... they would look like the German women on the boulevards and in the shops. In the end she ceased to wonder that the German masters dealt out their wares to these girls so superciliously.
"You claim that you know nothing o' this job?" "Not a thing." "And you?" The big 'Piker' stared superciliously at Smoky. "Same here," said Smoky. The visitors glanced at each other, slightly nonplussed. The big 'Piker' swore in his beard. "We'll arrest the hull outfit," he said decidedly, "and carry 'em in to San Lorenzy." "You ain't, the sheriff nor his deputy," said Ransom.
I was taken entirely aback, and in my confusion was unable to utter a word. Several servants passed, going up and down the staircase; they said nothing, but eyed me superciliously. Then a lady's-maid appeared; she came up to me, declared that I was a charming young fellow, and that her mistress had sent to ask me if I did not want a place as gardener's boy.
"I wish you would, that is, if you don't think farm work will be too hard for you." "I'll risk that." In pursuance of this promise, Herbert, after ascertaining that there was no work to be had anywhere else in the village, called one fine morning at the imposing residence of Squire Leech. James was in the yard, at work on a kite. "Have you come to see me?" said James, superciliously.
It was an "Indian" machine and painted red. And as she looked, the car, after taking a corner, got into a straight bit of the splendid road and the motor-bicycle dropped away from it. "Can't you shake off that motor-bicycle thing?" Audrey rather superciliously asked the chauffeur.
"Oh, there are always lots of little things a woman can do," he answered airily. "But supposing little things don't satisfy her, and she has power to follow some big pursuit?" "Oh, well, in that case," he began, somewhat superciliously. "But it's too rare to be taken into account talent in women." "How do you know?" Beth said.
In past generations, no pains were taken to make explanations that were not called for by the learned public. All other readers were ignored. They formed a mob, for whom no provision was made. And that many difficulties should be left entirely unexplained for them, was superciliously assumed to be no fault at all.
There was plenty of it to look at. It filled the entire mouth of the little bay, swirling up the sand and lashing among the rocks in a fashion which made one thought stand out above all the others in her mind the recollection that she could not swim. 'Mr Wilton! Wilton bowed coldly. 'Mr Wilton, the tide. It's coming IN. Wilton glanced superciliously at the sea. 'So, he said, 'I perceive.
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