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Example sentences for "contemptuous smile"

  • The two guards exchanged a contemptuous smile.

  • Gaston felt a cloud pass before his eyes, and his ideas became confused; but this soon vanished, and the serenity of his bearing returned, the blood rushed back to his cheeks, and a contemptuous smile settled on his lips.

  • Monsieur de Montesquieu, with a contemptuous smile, turned on his heel--the deputies did the same, and both retired with their original dignity.

  • He pointed to the piles of papers on and below the table with a contemptuous smile.

  • A minute after Major Marsden, coming in alone, found him, as he had left him, at the door, with rather a contemptuous smile on his face.

  • He stood uncertain, and John Raby drew out his watch with a contemptuous smile.

  • Ah, there will soon be many divorce cases," said the queen, with a contemptuous smile.

  • She looked after him with a contemptuous smile, and murmured to herself: "Vain fool, he deserves to be deceived.

  • No, I cannot," cried Mohammed, with a contemptuous smile.

  • In the years that have since passed, I have often thought of the boy with the eagle eyes and the haughty, contemptuous smile.

  • Salicetti, the second physician, shrugged his shoulders with a contemptuous smile.

  • He calmly took the pen, and, while affixing his signature, said with a contemptuous smile: "Was I not right?

  • Count Orloff, with a contemptuous smile, strewed gold among them, and their clamors ceased.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    contemptuous smile; course the; duty towards; feeling sure; fine time; following verses; make trouble; military rule; order business; quite tender; railway system; shall observe; smooth water; submit their; suspended following; take things; terrible blow; thousand yards; vingt ans; white slavery; will often; will seldom