We look with a condescending smile at the old-fashioned periods in which the demands of authority and discipline controlled the education of the child and after all the education of the adult to his last days.
Agnes, for oncecondescending to look perfectly pleased.
She hated Dayson for that; George Cannon might wink at Dayson (though she regretted the condescending familiarity), but Dayson had no right to presume to wink at George Cannon.
Smiling withcondescending indulgence, half to herself, she still pretended to ignore him, and continued her toilet.
For them it was a house that rightly apologized for itself, and whose apologetic air deserved only a condescending tolerance.
Thy condescending grace To me did freely move; It calls me still to seek thy face, And stoops to ask my love.
His condescending love First calls our wonder forth; He left the blessed realms above, To dwell with men on earth.
Mr. John Smauker, raising his hat gracefully with one hand, while he gently waved the other in a condescending manner.
But, Mr. Lyon, how much good do you suppose condescending charity does?
You have told me that one of my mistakes in the past was in condescendingto you and attempting to impose my own negative views upon you.
She expressed tolerantly her contempt of social ostentation and suggested that among Mr. Hurst's play-fellows she was condescending from her more vital and intellectual pursuits.
He uttered this in a very condescending tone, as much as to say, that any one must esteem himself fortunate to have Herr Sonnenkamp recognise his worth.
She was thoroughly condescending and gracious to Frau Ceres, and she was happy that she could be condescending.
No one had ever seen him intoxicated, and, in general society, he always played the part of one very condescending and indifferent, who is yet so noble as to remain in intercourse with these inferior people, as much as to say.
Pranken gave him a condescending nod of congratulation, then added quickly,--"And do you leave entirely out of sight that you quit the army with the rank of Captain?
He came just like anyone else might have come, in such a very kind and condescending way to ask after me.
Clerk Janaway, your sentiments do you no credit," said the pork-butcher on one such occasion, for he was given to gossip with the sexton on terms of condescending equality.
SIR,--I most respectfully thank you for your condescending kindness to me and my grandchild; and your friend, for his timely and generous aid.
When this occurred, she was greatly relieved to find that his gloom did not lead him to treat her unkindly, indeed, he was amiable enough to address her with an air of one relenting and condescending somewhat to her youth.
But as he slouched comfortably upon his counter and listened to Miss Caroline's condescending exposition of her needs, he became sensible of a strange influence stealing upon him.
And again she glowed upon Solon with the condescending sweetness of a Sabbath-school teacher to the littlest boy in her class.
The more concessions were made to him, the more exacting he became; and having got the English out of Macao, and made the Portuguese submissive to his will, he then assumed a very bland and condescending tone.
His highness was condescending to superintend the preparation of the breakfast for his guests, that it might be worthy of them.
His lordship was wonderfully condescendingto honor so humble a roof by his presence; but it was not the first time that he had paid a visit to Mr Muggins in his own house.
But in the nineteenth century, when more white men in the South were condescendingto do skilled labor and trying to develop manufactures, they found themselves handicapped by competition with the slave mechanics.
Mrs. Maxwell was too much vexed to forgive him for making the suggestion which he had already dropped, and she left the room for fear she should not be able to govern herself at the sight of her husband condescending to temporize with him.
It never came to that with us; and instead of his being a howling outside swell that was rather condescending to her, suppose I have him some sort of subordinate in her father's business?
There was something in his very lack of reverence, in his impertinent assumption of equality, in his refusal to pay her the condescending homage due feebleness and old age, that seemed to flatter her.
