10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «SARDONICAL»
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The British Quarterly Review
His voice is thin, harsh, and reedy — his aspect sinister, deceitful, and tricky — a
sardonical smile plays about his insincere and mocking mouth, and at first view
you are disposed to distrust so ill-favoured a looking little dwarf, and to disbelieve
...
Robert Vaughan, Henry Allon, 1848
2
The Virginians: A Tale of the Last Century
I dare say you respect me no more than I respect myself, George," he would say,
in his candid way, and begin a very pleasant sardonical discourse upon the fall of
man, and his faults, and shortcomings ; and wonder why heaven had not made ...
William Makepeace Thackeray, 1868
And with much sardonical humour this old lord used to play off one good
dowager after another who would bring her girl in his way. He would send pearls
to Emily, diamonds to Fanny, opera-boxes to lively Kate, books of devotion to
pious ...
4
The Right Honourable Benjamin Disraeli ... [By Thomas ...
... and was loudly cheered by the Blues. “ Didn't you write a novel ?” again asked
the importunate elector, not very much frightened even by Mr. Disraeli's oratorical
thunder, and the sardonical expression on his face. .“ I have certainly written a ...
In the compliments which Dom Claudeaddressed to Jacques Coictier, there
wasthat sardonical, biting, and covertly mocking accent, and the sad cruel smileof
a superior and unhappy man who toys for amoment, by way of distraction, withthe
...
Victor Hugo, Rook Press, 2014
... he moved with ostentatious deference towards the scuttle, as if so far to escort
their exit. But the junior magistrate, a kind-hearted man, troubled at what seemed
to him a certain sardonical disdain, lurking beneath the foundling's humble ...
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Harper's New Monthly Magazine
“I dare say you respect me no more than I respect myself, George," he would say,
itt his candid way, and begin a very pleasant sardonical dis. ' course upon the fall
of man, and his faults and shortcomings; and wonder why Heaven had not ...
8
The Hunchback of Notre Dame: Easyread Large Edition
In the compliments which Dom Claude addressed to Jacques Coictier, there was
that sardonical, biting, and covertly mocking accent, and the sad cruel smile of a
superior and unhappy man who toys for a moment, by way of distraction, with ...
9
Melville's Short Fiction, 1853-1856
"But don't you think," replies the narrator to his guide, "that the sculptor, whoever
he was, carved the laugh too much into a grin — a sort of sardonical grin?" (p. ioo
) . Disturbed though he is by witnessing this exhibition of human degradation, ...
William B. Dillingham, 2008
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Stories and Poems for Extremely Intelligent Children of All Ages
But the junior magistrate, a kind-hearted man, troubled at what seemed to him a
certain sardonical disdain, lurking beneath the foundling's humble mien, and in
Christian sympathy more distressed at it on his account than on his own, dimly ...
NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «SARDONICAL»
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The Centralia Massacre: A complete account
“Parole them, of course,” returned Anderson, with an ironical and sardonical emphasis on the word “parole.” With a laugh, Clements rejoined: “I thought so. «Columbia Daily Tribune, Sep 14»
