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Sentences ending with contemptuous

There were some who scattered as he drew near, and of the less timorous spirits that remained only a few raised dark, sullen glances to encounter his, which was unflinching, passionately contemptuous. [9]
When he ventured to glance her way again her face was cold, stern, and he fancied even contemptuous. [2]
As soon as he came across a former acquaintance or anyone from the staff, he bristled up immediately and grew spiteful, ironical, and contemptuous. [2]
Won't you please fix it the way it ought to be, altering the language as you choose, only making it bitter and contemptuous? [5]

More example sentences with the word contemptuous in them

Blushing, and confused with shyness, she remained standing by Caesar's seat; and though she only ventured to raise her eyes now and then for a stolen look, she felt herself the object of a hundred curious, defiant, bold, or contemptuous glances. [10]
Once in a while they saw the light of some contemptuous citizen of the residence district who had stayed to laugh. [9]
The contemptuous glances which others might cast at her I should scorn, for I know her worth. [10]
The words from the scare-column of the paper he held smote his sight: "War Inevitable--Transvaal Bristling with Guns and Loaded to the Nozzle with War Stores--Milner and Kruger No Nearer a Settlement-- Sullen and Contemptuous Treatment of British Outlander. [11]
And now, from the hints contained in his letter and given by the little princess, he saw which way the wind was blowing, and his low opinion changed into a feeling of contemptuous ill will. [2]
Here and now the contemptuous mirth upon the Frenchman's face told the whole story. [11]
Henderson himself had something of the Bismarck trait of brutal, contemptuous frankness. [4]
She did not sit down but looked at him with a contemptuous smile, waiting for the valet to go. [2]
It was long since Philip had been so proudly contemptuous, so morose as he was to-night. [10]
He did not quite grasp her meaning, but the tone sounded contemptuous, and that sorted little with his self-importance. [11]
If the despot of the Patent-Annunciator is only mildly contemptuous in his manner, let the victim look upon it as a personal favor. [6]
Weyrother met all objections with a firm and contemptuous smile, evidently prepared beforehand to meet all objections be they what they might. [2]
Those who heard Mr. Douglas recollect that he indulged himself in a contemptuous expression of pity for me. [7]
Iras's reply was merely a contemptuous shrug of the shoulders. [10]
The "Man of Letters," so called, said, in a rather contemptuous way, I thought, that he had n't got so far as that. [6]
For a brief instant Mallory and the Indian fell apart, then Athabasca with a contemptuous fairness tossed his knife away, and ran in on his man. [11]
They looked at Hiram, my New Hampshire man, in a contemptuous and threatening way for a minute or so, when Fagan addressed him: "'And how much does the man pay yez by the hour? [6]
Diodoros had thought he would behold his imperial rival; however, instead of Caracalla he had seen the contemptuous reception which awaited Alexander and Melissa, from some at least of the populace. [10]
She was sure he had never felt like that; and as she evaded his questions the something within her demanding life and expression grew stronger and more rebellious, more contemptuous of the fear-precepts congenial to a nature timorous and less vitalized. [9]
His contemptuous indifference has deeply offended the heads of the town. [10]
He felt every glance of Fournel's eye a contemptuous comment upon his deformity, now so egregious and humiliating. [11]
Besides this the general opinion of all who had known him previously was that he had greatly improved during these last five years, having softened and grown more manly, lost his former affectation, pride, and contemptuous irony, and acquired the serenity that comes with years. [2]
Nor was it etiquette for a judge to lay his own hands in chastisement on contemptuous persons, though Justice at Danville had more compassion than her sisters in older communities upon human failings. [9]
With a slightly contemptuous smile, he said: "Yes, there are many stories now told about that affair! [2]
There was a contemptuous pride in her face which forced him to lower his eyelids sulkily. [11]
Mavick was never brutal and never contemptuous, but he had a cynical sort of frankness, which is a good deal more effectual in a business way than the oily, plausible manner which on 'Change, as well as in politics, is distrusted as hypocrisy. [4]
With this, she bent over him to kiss his brow, but he raised himself a little, and said, with a contemptuous smile: "Apathy--ataraxy--complete indifference--is the highest aim after which the soul of the skeptic strives. [10]
It was an angry, contemptuous letter from you. [11]
Later tidings, contemptuous and eventually irritable utterances of her own father, together with accounts in the New York newspapers of his campaign, had convinced her in spite of herself that Bedloe Hubbell had actually shaken the seats of power. [9]
Fox lost, again and again; but he treated his ill-luck with such a raillery of contemptuous wit, that we must needs laugh with him. [9]
She was only afraid that he had not made his rejection contemptuous enough. [8]
Siebenburg listened with a contemptuous shrug of the shoulders, then he said bitterly: "I thought that a life of poverty was the chief rule in the order of St. Francis. [10]

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