And the educational Gradgrinds of the present time sneer at Dickens because he puts the early training of a circus above the early training of a Christian home like Mr. Gradgrind's.
It was wrong to sneer at him because his consciousness of unfolding manhood and his hope of Dolly Varden's love made him carry himself with a "military air.
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.
I am going to climb till I can sneer down on them.
There are the spectacles of Burke and the tall thin form of Langton, the courtly sneer of Beauclerk, and the beaming smile of Garrick, Gibbon tapping his snuff-box, and Sir Joshua with his trumpet in his ear.
During twenty years the disciple continued to worship the master: the master continued to scold the disciple, to sneer at him, and to love him.
In all the characters, patriots and tyrants, haters and lovers, the frown and sneerof Harold were discernible in an instant.
The physician looked at him with a sneer of contempt on his face.
The sneer with which Hayward told him that he was not working for money ever will be a riddle to that Pittsburg brain.
We trace the influence of these criticisms in the sneer of Persius,-- Est nunc Briseis quem venosus liber Acci, Sunt quos Pacuviusque et verrucosa moretur Antiopa, aerummis cor luctificabile fulta.
His vapid grin turned to a sneer as he mentioned Rowlett's name after the never-failing habit of his dissembling, but Dorothy set down his plate as though it had become suddenly too hot to hold.
Her lips were innocent of the flippant sneer that the other girl's had held and her beauty was not so full-blown or material.
A sneer replaced the mirthless grin on his lips, and when he got up and moved slowly toward Betty she sat motionless, for there was a repressed savagery in his movements that chilled her blood.
She waited for an instant, watching the sneer on Calumet's face, and then went on firmly, as though she had decided not to let anything he said disturb her.
Wolf or coyote, it was too far for him to be certain, but he watched it with a sneer until it slunk down into the tangle of sage, out of his sight.
With a last effort he forced his eyes to steadiness and succeeded in sneering at her, though he felt that somehow the sneer was ineffectual, puerile.
But Calumet's interest was cynical and it brought a sneerto his lips as he ceased laughing and sat loosely in the saddle regarding the puncher.
He saw a shadow; looked upward to see the Mexican eagle winging its slow way overhead, and the sneer on his lips grew.
Let not any one suppose, then, that in this detail of the country life through which our hero is led, I would cast obloquy or a sneer upon its simplicity, or upon its lack of refinement.
This is a history of Dreams; and there will be those who will sneer at such a history, as the work of a dreamer.
And we can't do much if these Alaskans sneer at us.
Mary gave him a quiet good evening, and George hoped with a sneer that he was quite well, but directly the pair were whispering together once more in the shadow of the curtain.
You English should never sneer at those two nations: they were before you everywhere.
Looking at him with outside eyes, she was inclined to sneer at him.
Whatever might be his future vocation, ecclesiastical, educational, or editorial, he would speak of science with no covert sneer and with no suppressed apprehension.
Don't simper and giggle when the fools sneer at "woman's rights.
It was delicious to hear him bragging of his pilgrim ancestor,--while in the same breath he would blandly sneer at certain "poor gentry" who could trace back their lineage to Coeur de Lion!
The covert sneer conveyed in this speech made the peppery Italian fire up.
How very tender-hearted you have become," he said, with a sneer of contempt.
He fancied he had detected a sneer on Doctor Malsano's countenance.
Raife now felt certain that he had recognised a sneer on the man's face--a malicious sneer, when Gilda had snubbed him.
But this business isn't run from the office," replied Hiram, with a gentle smile that to the young man looked like the sneer of a tyrant.
He was as glad to escape from those surroundings as she to be relieved of a presence which edged on her other-self to scoff and rail and sneer at her.
He never intruded; he never misunderstood; he never caused the slightest uneasiness lest he should go away to sneeror to despise.
She made her pretty nose and upper lip ugly with a sneerof 'Dew--!
The Germans, in the administration of their colonies, sneer at humanitarianism and eighteenth-century social philosophy.
They sneer at the dullness and monotony of monogamic life.
In fact, the very parties whom you affect to sneer at, and their compeers, are the very parties who have raised the character of Scottish farming, and rendered it famous over the world.
This is the gentleman whose farming you ignorantly sneer at.
You sneer at Mr Gibson of Woolmet's potato cultivation.
He would not allow them to learn any language, saying with a sneer that "for a woman one tongue is enough.
Who are the curs that dare To whine and sneer that they do not fear the whelps in the Lion's lair?
