He bade defiance to aristocratical connections, with a superciliousness to which the Peers were not accustomed, and with tones and gestures better suited to a large and stormy assembly than to the body of which he was now a member.
He was overcome by the kindness of the marquis which recalled to him through sheer force of contrast the superciliousness of M.
She had but one life, and the superciliousness with which all the world now regarded her should be compensated in some measure by the man whose carelessness--to set him in the best light--had caused it.
No suspicion of superciliousness or arrogance had induced him to form this resolve.
You're a disgrace to the human sex by your superciliousness of knowledge, an' your various quotations of ignorance.
As for the curate, should I ever come to authority in the Irish hierarchy, I shall be strongly disposed to discountenance him; if it were only for his general superciliousness of conduct.
The lofty superciliousness of the British nobleman seemed to Girasole to be the natural result of his position, and it seemed the attitude of the successful lover toward the rejected suitor.
It may be only the arrogance and superciliousness of the Anglo-Saxon that prevent one sharing the sanguineness of M.
He captivated the reading world by the air of whimsical superciliousness with which he now wrote of his own and his late comrades' warlike deeds.
Unless we consider assumed superciliousness and cold-heartedness truthful, we can scarcely endorse the assertion.
A flush coloured Soames' pale cheeks, but his superciliousness did not waver.
That slight superciliousness of his, combined with an air of mousing amongst precedents, was in his favour too--a man would not be supercilious unless he knew!
Persistence kept this picture habitually in her mind, which, of course, helps to explain her feeling that she was justified in wearing that manner of superciliousness deplored by her mother.
An extraordinary change took place upon the surface of Florence Atwater: all superciliousness and derision of the world vanished; her eyes opened wide, and into them came a look at once far-away and intently fixed.
But the superciliousness of Florence visibly increased with this advent: Mr. Ridgely was easily old enough to be her grandfather, yet she seemed to wish it evident that she would not have cared for him even in that capacity.
He was a cross-grained man, oppressed by a large family, and he resented the superciliousness which he fancied he saw in Philip.
As he limped along the high street of Blackstable he looked with a tinge of superciliousness at the people he passed.
There was in her no longer thesuperciliousness which had irritated him.
The superciliousness of the voiture vanished from my recollection, and my national frigidity was doomed to be thawed into civility, if not into amiableness.
How, then, can one mortal look down with superciliousness upon another, when all are in the same identical class?
His coxcomb superciliousness tickled their curiosity; he posed as the man whom nothing can arouse from his apathy, and his jaded Sultan airs were like a challenge.
You were expected to endure deadly insults; the superciliousness you had to put up with was something abominable.
Claudia wept bitterly as she read it, and vainly regretted the superciliousness which had alienated one she knew to be noble and trustworthy.
The first time this occurred Beulah was deeply wounded; she had loved Claudia very warmly, and her superciliousness was hard to bear.
Neigh, with a flavour of superciliousness unheeded by his occupied companion.
Superciliousness towards her is a mere anachronism.
And, on closer acquaintanceship, they prove to be civil and even helpful human beings, with none of the lazy superciliousness which so often characterises the European toll-taker.
Behind her walked Bazarov with his usual air of superciliousness and self-assurance, while on his face there was an expression cheerful, and even good-humoured.
