"Superciliously" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... Beasley can see you now, call later," he began, superciliously turning round to the letter-rack and sorting out the mail and putting each guest's ...
— The Boy Aviators in Africa • Captain Wilbur Lawton
... The dame smiled superciliously, but deigned no other answer, unless this were one,—"I shall order a boat to go upon the Thames ...
— Peveril of the Peak • Sir Walter Scott
... demeanour since his uncle's death. He had come into his own. The place, and everything, including Kathrien herself, would be his. He did not even try to veil his feeling of mastership. Walking over to his uncle's desk-chair, he sat down and began to pull off his gloves, looking at the children a trifle superciliously. ...
— The Return of Peter Grimm - Novelised From the Play • David Belasco
... saw little of him for two or three years. At their first encounter Paul bowed and spoke pleasantly, but Dawkins looked superciliously at him without appearing ...
— Paul Prescott's Charge • Horatio Alger
... old man in rather a rusty dress, was inclined to think that he was an applicant for charity, and answered rather superciliously: ...
— The Erie Train Boy • Horatio Alger
... her large black eyes on Guy, and scanned him superciliously from head to foot. The result seemed to satisfy her, for she advanced a few steps to take the hand which he had smilingly held out; but a thought seemed suddenly to strike her which arrested ...
— The Cryptogram - A Novel • James De Mille
... pockets and interstices of my coat with trembling fingers. I turned every pocket inside out, but no diamond could I find. I vainly searched the surrounding surface of the sand. But all in vain; my treasure had disappeared. Brown and Beranger smiled superciliously, and strolled back to De Beers. That was to me an ...
— Reminiscences of a South African Pioneer • W. C. Scully
... the Signor's eye, came slinking stealthily a spotted black-and-yellow leopard, ears back and tail twitching. He seemed ripe for mischief, as he climbed reluctantly on to his pedestal beside the goat; but he knew better than to even bare a claw. And as for the white goat, with his big golden eyes superciliously half closed, he ignored his dangerous neighbor completely, while his jaws chewed nonchalantly on a bit of brown shoe-lace which he had picked up in ...
— Kings in Exile • Sir Charles George Douglas Roberts
... Starbottle's profoundly punctilious bow. The Colonel was followed by his negro servant, carrying a parcel of hymn-books and Bibles, who, with a courtesy evidently imitated from his master, placed one before the opposite counsel. This, after a first curious glance, the lawyer somewhat superciliously tossed aside. But when Jim, proceeding to the jury-box, placed with equal politeness the remaining copies before the jury, the opposite ...
— Openings in the Old Trail • Bret Harte
... had left him, he occupied himself for a few minutes in contemplating, superciliously enough, the back view of the little house before which he stood. Judging by the windows, it did not contain more than six or eight rooms in all. Instead of stables and outhouses, there was a conservatory attached to the building on one side, and a low, long room, ...
— After Dark • Wilkie Collins
... of their courses, whatever they might mean. If he were doomed to be bereft of her, so it must be. In the situation which their marriage would create he could see no locus standi for himself at all. Farfrae would never recognize him more than superciliously; his poverty ensured that, no less than his past conduct. And so Elizabeth would grow to be a stranger to him, and the end of his life would be ...
— The Mayor of Casterbridge • Thomas Hardy
... were together, I believe," answered Harry, superciliously; "but really it is difficult to ...
— The Grateful Indian - And other Stories • W.H.G. Kingston
... prigs, the political economists. I've often noticed that when a man wants to dogmatise to his heart's content without fear of contradiction, he invariably calls himself a political economist. 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!" Now, your Herr Schurz is a dissenter among economists, I believe—a sort of embryo Luther come to tilt with a German toy lance against their economical infallibilities; and I'm told he knows more ...
— Philistia • Grant Allen
... just taken Ascalon, and were hard at work fortifying the place. King Richard with his usual zeal, in order to encourage the army, seized heavy stones and himself bore them into their place. The Archduke stood near with some of his knights: and it may be that the haughty Austrian looked somewhat superciliously ...
— Winning His Spurs - A Tale of the Crusades • George Alfred Henty
... sarcasm of Frances, and the ill-concealed disdain of the young man, Colonel Wellmere had felt himself placed in an awkward predicament; but ashamed to resent such trifles in the presence of his mistress, he satisfied himself with observing, superciliously, as Dunwoodie ...
— The Spy • James Fenimore Cooper
... down to the steamboat wharf, to be added to the baggage already there. The boys followed, Percy swaggering superciliously along after the others, ...
— Jim Spurling, Fisherman - or Making Good • Albert Walter Tolman
... consulting-room windows. But Ellen Barfoot never visited the Aquarium (though she had known Captain Boase who had caught the shark quite well), and when the men came by with the posters she eyed them superciliously, for she knew that she would never see the Pierrots, or the brothers Zeno, or Daisy Budd and her troupe of performing seals. For Ellen Barfoot in her bath-chair on the esplanade was a prisoner— civilization's prisoner—all the bars of her cage falling across the esplanade ...
— Jacob's Room • Virginia Woolf
... Russia," says Milburd, superciliously. Professing to have travelled considerably himself, he doesn't like the idea of anyone ...
— Happy-Thought Hall • F. C. Burnand |
