Reigning as a religious dictator, and with more influence than any man of his age, next to Luther, Calvin was content to remain poor, and was disdainful of money and all praises and rewards.
The poor fellow did not open his month unless to make some blunder, worthy at least of a disdainful smile.
Then suddenly he smoothed out the frown; his face regained its ordinary disdainful and indifferent expression, and he got up.
The girl shrugged her shoulders, and made a disdainful face, and suddenly taking the powder-puff, she dabbed it upon his cheek.
The stranger only answered with another violent snort, whether in acceptance of the poetry-tribute or in disdainful rejection of it, he did not express to me.
He is a gentleman of strict conscience, disdainful of all littleness and meanness and ready on the shortest notice to die any death you may please to mention rather than give occasion for the least impeachment of his integrity.
My Lady, with a disdainful gesture of the hand that holds the screen, assures him of his being worth no complaint from her.
He makes a feint of offering a protest, but she sweeps it away with her disdainful hand.
But her marble figure remained impassive, her white lips curled in disdainful smile.
He dwelt upon these thoughts especially, when his pride was hurt by the disdainful manner of the Jews in his regard; but he did not repent, for he had wholly given himself up to Satan.
With a disdainful little foot, clothed as usual in exquisite socks, with a special hood for the great toe, she pushes away the piles of white dollars and scatters them on the mats.
Every one knows the disdainfulintrepidity of women in the matter of duels.
Their deportment was insolent and self-sufficient; their eyes were disdainful and all- conquering.
Now they were on the point of achieving importance, and were going to find themselves solicited by consignors and disdainful merchants.
Upon discovering Ferragut, he surveyed him fixedly with a glacial and disdainful insolence.
At the beginning the count appeared cold and rather disdainful in his words, as though he could not possibly lay aside his diplomatic haughtiness.
She continued talking, placid and disdainfulat the same time, because of their surroundings.
Why view'st thou, Edwy, withdisdainful mien The little Naiad of the Downton Wave?
That gave my rising charms to Fame, Swell'd this coy bosom with disdainful pride?
But why does your holiness confer upon this disdainful Austrian an honor which he is unworthy to receive?
The crimson stream distain'd his arms around, And the disdainful soul came rushing thro' the wound.
The streaming blood distain'd his arms around, And the disdainfulsoul came rushing thro' the wound.
Next day all through the service he was casting disdainful glances towards the choir where Alexey Alexeitch was booming responses in solitude.
A haughty, disdainful smile passed over her yellow face.
The Englishwoman, hearing her name, deliberately turned her nose in Gryabov's direction and scanned him with a disdainful glance; she raised her eyes from Gryabov to Otsov and steeped him in disdain.
He thought of little Jacquemin, dainty and neat as if he had just stepped out of a bandbox, and his disdainful remarks upon the races of Enghien, where the swells no longer went.
I don't bet,' she said, too disdainful for wider notice of his words.
Lesley, having been in the garden before, knew the purpose this retreat had served in the past, and her involuntary pause beside it prolonged itself in half-disdainful wonder.
In all their intercourse Diana had spoken very little of Valentine; and in the little she had said there had been always the same half-bitter, half-disdainful tone.
She generally began and finished her arguments with some disdainful gesture that signified, "I am very good to take the trouble to talk to you.
His manner, however, was less disdainful than usual, for the hotel had impressed him.
He could have wept with shame, for in his childish mind he attributed this disdainful compassion to some peculiarity of costume, his bare legs, or his long curls.
She would have liked to regard her with disdainful condemnation, or a fugitive wife, a dishonoured woman.
When he was come up to Christian, he beheld him with a disdainful countenance, and thus began to question with him.
Since the arrival of this young woman at the capital of Andalusia, it was the first time that he had remarked any emotion on this cold and disdainful countenance.
My soul, disdainful and disgusted, sought Refuge in death from scorn, and I became, Just as I was, unjust toward myself.
My face must have reflected the disdainful quietude of my soul.
Sure of the meaning of my text, I acted upon it, but Louise assumed such imposing and royal airs, such haughty and disdainful poses, that unless I resorted to violence I felt I could obtain nothing from her.
