The supercilious stranger no sooner felt the touch than he started back, and whispered to his officious companion,-- "What!
Mr. Cassilis, and his smile was even more supercilious than usual.
Squire Cassilis turns to regard him with his usualsupercilious smile.
Finally, he pushed open the gate, and, approaching Bellew, saluted him with that superciliousair which Miss Priscilla always declared she found so "trying.
Farnham thought that he was supercilious in his remark.
Julian looked on with a supercilious air, as if such matters were entirely beneath his notice.
The boy eyed her with a superciliousscorn and pity.
While he felt not the slightest bend in the erectness of his own soul because of it, while it even amused him, he never forgot the supercilious courtesy of the girls' father towards him.
Pen conducted himself during breakfast in a very haughty and supercilious manner; and, taking leave of the elder and younger lady, was presently heard riding out of the stablecourt.
Pynsent and Pen had been at Oxbridge together, where the latter, during his heyday of good fortune and fashion, had been the superior of the young patrician, and perhaps rathersupercilious towards him.
Madame Roland herself delights, with evident complacency, in it, something which can be seen in the two famous letters in which, with a supercilious tone, she first instructs the King and next the Pope.
He makes a display of virtue however, and becomes only the more supercilious as he talks with the king, the young dauphin, and the ladies he is fetching back.
On hearing that we were English, and never purchased slaves, the questioners put on a supercilious air, and sometimes refused to sell us food.
It is pleasant to give a present, but that pleasure the Banyai usually deny to strangers by making it a fine, and demanding it in such a supercilious way, that only a sorely cowed trader could bear it.
It amounted simply to a supercilious offer, on his part, of lodging and board, until I should be sufficiently independent to open the oyster for myself.
Miss Roberts had called at the house several times, ostensibly to see Mrs. Ryder, and when introduced to Shirley she had condescended to give the latter a supercilious nod.
By these means he became deeply endeared to the people, who thus knew he was one who felt for their privations, and shared their feelings and opinions, and did not treat them with supercilious contempt like one of the nobles.
With a supercilious glance at Molly's Quakerish gown, that somehow fits her and suits her to perfection.
He still assumed a supercilious air, returning from the cafe only to rail against the poverty and wretchedness that awaited him at home.
That brief halt, thesupercilious glance which he cast over the drowsy place, thrilled him with unspeakable delight.
But that which above all made him the worst of scapegraces was the supercilious disdain which he entertained for the poor devils who had to earn their bread.
Moreover, hissupercilious manners had not helped to endear him since his arrival.
Presently Dobyans Verinder dropped in with an empty creel and opened wide supercilious eyes at sight of Jack.
The East, supercilious and white of shirt, should avoid a narrow view of Western men and manners.
He seems everywhere to hold it at arm's length, as worthy of nought but the must supercilious treatment; which accounts for, and to a certain extent justifies, the treatment he received from the world in his latter days.
He is familiar with the prince only as an agent of vice, but of this familiarity he is so proud, as not only to be supercilious and haughty with common men, but to think his interest of importance to the Duke of Lancaster.
He gleefully chucks her under the chin, and, retreating a few steps, nods and beckons with fantastic grimaces, while the girl bestows a contemptuous and supercilious look upon his wrinkled visage.
It was easy to observe the affected elevation of mien with which every one entered, and the supercilious servility with which they paid their compliments to each other.
Stopping in front of the girl and boy, and merely noticing the former by a supercilious stare, she said to the latter interrogatively: "Mr. Archibald McPherson?
It was as though some solemn old Egyptian sphinx had broken into broad Cockney, and, having given vent to its feelings, relapsed into the historic pose of unfathomable and supercilious meditation.
A rather supercilious smile flickered at the corners of his thick lips.
Cousin Kenneth says they are horrid cads both, but then his regiment are a parcel of supercilious puppies, so we need not mind that.
And, then, he thought of other things--for he had troubles of his own, had this superciliousyoung man.
