A tall, lean, young man with a sardonic eye and a sunburned face jingled up the steps.
Dinsmore splattered the face of a rock with tobacco juice and his stained teeth showed in a sardonic grin.
Beside the driver on the box sat a long-bodied man in buckskin with a clean brown jaw and an alert, sardonic eye.
If the girls would only let you do the pickin' for 'em, Jumbo," suggested Roberts with hissardonic smile.
I came out of these sardonic thoughts with cold hands and a sneer on my lips, and the thought that I had seen quite as conspicuously paired human mates even though their size was beyond reproach.
Your lordship thinks so," said Mr. Winsley with a sardonic smile.
Steven put his head out of the window and saw the dark face with its sardonic smile, lit up by the carriage-lamp, looking down at him.
He had assumed, in his sardonic way, an attitude of exceeding propriety.
The dying traitor’s lips were convulsed by a fearful sardonic grin, and he strove hard to speak, but the words rattled in his throat inarticulate, and a sharp ruckling groan was the only sound that he uttered.
Catiline, with his sardonic smile, as he was dragged out of the room, by his appalled and trembling fellows.
The son, whom he had poisoned, to render his house vacant for unhallowed nuptials, with his whole frame convulsed in agony, and the sardonic grin of death on his writhing lips, frowned on him.
The old man's face was twisted in a sardonic half-snarl that might pass for a grin; but there was no smile in his unblinking wildcat eyes.
His dark face responded with a sardonic grin, and his eyes were fiercely alight.
Volney looked down with his usual sardonic smile but his eyes were bitter with hate.
Stocky, sinister of eye and with a mouth whose half-sardonic smile drew the lips a little out of line, he combed his thick black hair now and then with delicate, long-fingered hands.
Over George's face moved a gleam of sardonic self-defence.
And for perhaps the first time in his life Soames felt a kind of sympathy tapping in his waistcoat for that sardonic kinsman.
His eyes must have had in them something of George Forsyte's sardonic look; for her gloved hand crisped the folds of her frock, her eyebrows rose, her face went stony.
Reckon up what your victory has already cost you," the hunter replied, with a sardonic smile, and pointing to the numerous corpses that lay on the plain.
Hester was lying upon the sofa again, and he knew she was staring at his back with that sardonic widening of her long eyes, a thing he hated, and which always foreboded things not pleasant to face.
He was generally somewhat sardonic when he spoke of anything connected with Walderhurst.
A sardonic gleam flashed across Dan's handsome face as he passed them with a nod, and disappeared in the room beyond.
He divined instantly, and that same sardonic smile passed over his face once more.
Nan liked him; he painted brilliantly, and was an attractive, clever, sardonic person.
Again Grace said nothing, though it cost her a stronger effort, and the major did not appear to notice the younger man's sardonic smile.
Esmond glanced at the man in front of him, with a little sardonic smile.
I didn't," said Coulthurst, who did not appear to notice his sardonic tone.
There was a little growl of disgust as well as sardonic laughter, and while one or two angry men moved towards the speaker the man with the dark eyes stood up suddenly.
He wore an officer's uniform and there was just then a little sardonic gleam in his dark eyes.
There was a little sardonic laughter, and one of the others said, "I guess we've got 'most enough without humping another case along for anybody.
A sardonicsmile curled the full lips of Apleon, as he said: "Poor deluded soul!
Apleon rose from his throne, a magnificent, but a sardonic figure for all that.
The prosperous life of a politician jollied him up a bit, too; he developed a certain sardonic humor in the handling of unfavorable witnesses, and got off a good one every once in a while for the benefit of the reporters.
With a sardonic grin Pecos put his rope on a likely young maverick and burned a Monkey-wrench on his ribs; then, in order that there should be no mistake, he worked over the brand on a U cow and put his iron on the calf.
He broke off his sardonic raillery and let his level gaze possess her for a long moment.
For his every inflection, every motion, proclaimed the strain of good blood gone wrong and trampled under foot of set, sardonic purpose, indicated him a man of culture in a hell of his own choosing.
Tell the court all about it," said Gaut's lawyer, as an exultant smile played over his sardonic features.
That is a contingency about as likely to happen as that your highness should turn Christian," he added, with a sardonic grin.
We'll attend to Clanton's case," A faint smile touched the sardonicface of Prince.
His hands went up, but he could not keep a little, sardonic smile from his face.
The sardonic mockery had vanished from the face of the prisoner.
The emotion of malice, with its frozen sneer of sardonic denial, raises its "infernal fist" against the centrifugal outflowing of the emotion of love.
But this sardonic aspect of human humour, though tallying truly enough with one eternal facet of the universe, does not exhaust the humorous potentiality of the aesthetic sense.
It is indeed a kind of mental drug or spiritual opiate by the use of which many unheroic souls hide themselves from the sardonic stare of the eternal Sphinx.
I would commend to any sardonic psychologist whose "malice" leads him to derive pleasure from the little weaknesses of philosophers, to turn his attention to the ideal systems of supposedly "pure thought.
A sardonic grin relaxes his dark visage as he sees them go forth to "shine" in the East and "abroad.
Maxime Valois here develops a social talent as a leader of men, guided by the sardonic Mephisto of his young life.
Valois admires the cold self-confidence of the sardonic Hardin.
