Against his moral character there exists no imputation; and notwithstanding a sneering hint of Walpole's, his religious creed seems to have been orthodox.
Which my feelings I own it does rouge To hear big-wigs a-sneering at 'Buses.
There was a sneering emphasis in her words, and the snaky black eyes gleamed like daggers on the baronet.
The sneering mockery of the last taunt was too much for the fiery young prince of Kingsland.
The lady stood on the landing above, looking after him with a bitter, sneering smile.
You alarm yourself without reason, good Sir Thomas," replied Herne, in a slightly sneering tone.
As she delivered it, Legree looked in her eyes with a sneering yet inquiring glance.
He stood at one of the windows, balefully watching; sneering at the delegates who had returned, flushed with victory.
There were two, and they sat defiantly in their seats, sneering their contempt of the teacher's wrath, advertising their entire disregard for the restraining influence of rules.
And the people it sheltered, the old hag who kept the door, the sneering man and Caroline Smith, were to the house like the thoughts behind a man's face, an inscrutable face.
You can punch a gent for cussing you, or stepping on your foot, or crowding you, or sneering at you, or talking behind your back, or for a thousand things.
What a good chief he is to serve,” said the nazir, with his sneering smile.
Half-way to the door he turned, his dark face sneering in contemptuous scorn.
Sir, I've been hearing of the gallant rescue that you made of another young lady this morning," he said, with sneering emphasis.
The challenge revealed itself in the derisive, sneering tone.
He won't sit here like a cad and listen to Egerton sneering at his father.
With such an argument, if I understand him, the Count de Maistre would put you to the blush for sneering sub rosa at the legitimacy of your Sovereign.
But they met with no reward, and Robert, who had remained motionless throughout, was regarding them with a sneering smile when one of the detectives suddenly turned on him.
Father Merlin had been a villein’s son, and all the fierce, sneering spirit of the man sprang back with a snarl of hatred from those who ruled by right of birth.
Sometimes Merlin spoke to her, glancing back over a bony shoulder, and his sneering voice was full of an ironical fatherliness.
I trow Edward hardly gives freedom enough to his pages for them to pay visits unknown," replied Henry, with a strange sneering triumph in his own wild liberty.
There are gardens in the background, and the line is bare and drear, Yet they wait beneath a signboard, sneering ‘Second class wait here.
Yes, the toffs have grit, in spite of all our sneering and our scorning-- What’s the crowd?
A coarse chuckle made him start round, and there stood Martin Wittenhaagen leaning on his bow, and sneering from ear to ear.
They had best have left it," said my uncle with a sneering laugh, when he saw how things had gone.
Not so fast, Mr. Agent," said that sneering voice of Malpas, whom I near stumbled over as he sat on an upturned cask by the door.
What could she do to hide her disgrace from her mocking, sneering friends?
And the superciliousness which delighted her in Ross, irritated her in Arthur; for, in him, it seemed a sneering reflection upon the humble and toilsome beginnings of Charles and herself.
I suppose there is some sneering at her," said he, "among the girls who couldn't do anything if they tried.
Oh, I don't know," was the rather sneering answer.
Meanwhile Darrell had disposed of his lad, and Tom, who was engaged with a small lad who made a sneering remark, grabbed hold of the chap and shook him until the lad begged for mercy.
A sneering smile accompanied the contemptuous answer, which was delivered in no particularly gentle manner.
He has an old-maid sister who is forever meddling about my affairs and sneering at my domestic arrangements; and because I finally told her I believed I was mistress of my own house Ernest has never forgiven me.
Now and then, too, a ribald jest came from some young roisterer near, and the fact that I stood alone among sneering enemies wound me up to a point where pride was more active than aught else.
I was arrested suddenly by a curious disdainful, even sneering smile which played upon his face as he looked at Vaudreuil and Bigot.
Hoitle-mattee's ears are as open as the commissioner's mouth," was the sneering rejoinder.
That might be done, too," said Spence, in a sneering tone, that set my blood in a boil.
Some people do faint at the sight of a drop of blood," said a familiar voice, followed by a sneering laugh.
