Here, on the other hand, it has made a great sensation," he said, with a complacent smile.
With the same complacent smile he told her of the ovations he had received in consequence of the act he had passed.
He recalled his own criticisms of Tyndall of his complacent satisfaction in the cleverness of his experiments, and for his lack of philosophic insight.
We all know the place held in the public esteem by complacent husbands.
But, in God's name, what place is there at all for complacent fathers?
Her sweet and complacent voice was so cheerful that he lost his awe of her new magic and chortled: "And how we used to play pum-pum-pull-away.
The fatuous eye, the features of complacent vanity and self-satisfied reverie were there, either intensified by drink, or perhaps suggesting it through some other equally hopeless form of hallucination.
And now they came upon Iain the policeman--bland, benign, complacent as usual.
Wily Madge wished to offer a sop to each of the combatants, and had the satisfaction of seeing Philippa smile faintly, and the complacent expression return to Theo's face.
The smile with which Barney regarded her was at once charming and pathetic--so full of warm-hearted affection, so radiantly complacent and assured.
He returned in a few minutes with a face of self-complacent exultation, and Miss Sharperson's compliments, and begs Sir John Bull will walk up and rest himself with a dish of tea, and has her thanks to him for the china.
She had none of those self-complacent delusions which lure vain women on in slothfulness until Love vacates his neglected temple.
And what self-complacent claiming of remote, powerful ancestors who had founded their families, when those ancestors would have disclaimed them as puny nonentities.
A slender verbal hint suffices to give a complacent sense of having once at least marched in the foremost files of time.
He is as near nude as may be, but from the complacentgrin on the unkempt little monkey's face you might fancy he considered himself the most important figure in the show.
Hilda smiled to herself--a quiet smile, half of disappointment, half of complacentfeminine superiority.
But many an old and cherished prejudice will begin painfully to gnaw its way out of your complacent mind before we are done.
The head keeper of the menagerie I saw but once or twice; he was of Falstaffian proportions, with a clear and steady masculine eye and a demeanor of genial and complacent authority.
The greater number of house mistresses, meanwhile, if one may judge from their own complacent conversation, behave in a way most unlikely to contribute to their servants' self-respect.
But we shall find about that from Bontet," said one of them, with a complacent nod at the fellow who lay still in a sort of stupor, with blood-stained bandages round his head.
The husband was a genuine complacent beery German, the wife, a good, corpulent, black-silk creature.
The one thing by which she knew she was in Berlin, Germany, near the Potsdamer Bruecke, was the placard's complacent "Happy New Year.
Too early in life you tumbled into the great meat-chopping machine, which finally converts us all into complacent wormy mush.
Beyond that complacent little scatterbrain her own happiness rose lofty and threatening as a storm-cloud.
If we might suppose a tacit reference to the Pharisees in the blind guides, their self-complacent censoriousness would be in view here; but the application of the saying is much wider than to them only.
In Christ, God is well pleased; and from Him incarnate, streams of divine complacent love pour out to freshen and fertilise the earth.
Christ's love kindles sense of our sin, not complacent recounting of our goodness.
The rest looked on during this proceeding with a complacent sense of being out of it,--much as a European nation in a state of internal commotion is watched by its neighbours.
It reminded me of Lancelot riding in Sir Kay's armor, astonishing complacent knights who thought they had struck a soft thing.
But there was a strange complacent smile upon her lip as she busied herself in her work, that puzzled the old woman.
There is a large fruit garden attached to the house, which is in excellent condition, taking life comfortably, and having the complacent air of a well-preserved beau of the ancien regime.
Yes," said Joey with a complacent stroke at his upper lip.
He looked out across the desert to the Gavilan Hills with a complacent eye.
It was as though the ocean of another's suffering had flooded the complacent rivers of her life.
Smiling a complacent little smile she patted the chair beside her.
Which may have been true," he remarked in the complacent tone of one who waits to formulate an unimpeachable theory.
Mrs. Sturton seems to be afraid of the night-air," Miss Tattersall remarked with a complacent giggle of self-congratulation on being too modern for such prejudices.
