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Sentences ending with ironical

Trafford could not understand why Pierre was so reserved, and, when speaking, so ironical. [11]
The interest was real, the amusement was not ironical. [11]

More example sentences with the word ironical in them

Presently he turned with a little ironical laugh and waved his hand at Gering; and laugh and gesture rankled in Gering for many a day. [11]
Seeing me, he waved a hand in an ironical way. [11]
Once, at a trial in court in other days, he had said in his ironical way: "One hasn't to fear the penalties of one's sins, but the damnable accident of discovery. [11]
She saw that there was nothing ironical in this politeness. [11]
Then all flung themselves upon their knees about him and sent up a chorus of ironical wailings, and mocking supplications, whilst they swabbed their eyes with their soiled and ragged sleeves and aprons-- "Be gracious to us, O sweet King! [5]
Prince Andrew for the second time asked the adjutant on duty to take in his name, but received an ironical look and was told that his turn would come in due course. [2]
At the first the janitor was respectful and enthusiastic; at the second he had an effect of ironical pessimism. [8]
The glance of the former was ironical and a little sardonic. [11]
She had dropped that barrier of pretences and ironical surprise. [8]
All at once that bare, glacial fact of having sent her fifty pounds acted as an ironical illumination of his real position. [11]
Amasis pretended much surprise at his son's conduct, assured his friend that Gyges should be released at once, and indulged in some ironical jokes at the discomfiture of Psamtik's attempt to revenge himself. [10]
Somehow those white stockings suggested the ironical comment of the world upon his proposed mesalliance; then he laughed good-humouredly. [11]
With an ironical smile Psamtik sat watching this scene--the pleased faces of Amasis, Croesus and Gyges, the meaning glances of the Egyptians, and the contented looks with which Aristomachus gazed on the young heroes. [10]
Lafarge made one restraining effort, then settled into an ironical mood. [11]
In spite of Prince Andrew's disagreeable, ironical tone, in spite of the contempt with which Rostov, from his fighting army point of view, regarded all these little adjutants on the staff of whom the newcomer was evidently one, Rostov felt confused, blushed, and became silent. [2]
Lord Faramond, himself picturesque, acute, with a keen knowledge of character and a taste for originality, saw material for a useful supporter--fearless, independent, with a gift for saying ironical things, and some primitive and fundamental principles well digested. [11]
Suddenly Stolphe laughed outright, a crackling, mirthless, ironical laugh; for it really was absurdity made sublime that this man, who had been abandoned by his wife, should now want to kill one who had abandoned her! [11]
In the eyes of the world, however, the phrase has a some what ironical suggestiveness, and to have luxury, wealth, and place as a birthright is not thought to be the most fortunate incident of mortality. [11]
I suppose something of the pride of that moment leaped up in my eye, for I saw the governor's face harden more and more, and the brother shrugged an ironical shoulder. [11]
If it was not approval, it was not condemnation; but it might have been slightly ironical, and that annoyed me. [11]
Farrar, who despised nonsense, was ironical and non-committal when appealed to, and certainly I betrayed none of my client's attributes. [9]
His ironical smile merely irritated all concerned. [11]
Gaston saw the mark of his hand on his uncle's chin, and he forbore ironical reply. [11]
A quivering, ironical laugh burst from her lips. [11]
It gave an ironical turn to the incident that Mr. Pardriff was at the moment engaged in a "Welcome Home" paragraph meant to be propitiatory. [9]
A hopeless and ironical misery shot through him. [11]
There's something rather ironical in such a situation, to say the least. [9]
Gering had crowded home with flagrant emphasis the fact that, while Radisson was a traitor and a scoundrel,--which Iberville himself had admitted with an ironical frankness,--he was also a Frenchman. [11]
The Premier sat, head cocked, with an ironical smile at the cheering, but he was wondering whether, after all, his man was sure; whether he could stand this fire, and reverse his engine quite as he intended. [11]
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]
This man--John Brown--had gone down before his old ironical questioning, had been, indirectly, the means of disgracing his name. [11]
Then, too, remarks from the bystanders worked me up to a deep sort of anger, and I could feel Doltaire looking at me with that still, cold face of his, an ironical smile at his lips. [11]
He laughed, a dry, ironical laugh. [11]
At last he drew up his head, his shoulders came erect, heavily, to the carved back of the chair, where, strange to say, the Stations of the Cross were figured, and he said, in a cold, ironical voice: "The Angel of Patience has lied! [11]
It was Augustus Burlingame, whose face as he saw Mona Crozier took on an ironical smile. [11]
He kissed the Book, making the sign of the Cross swiftly as he did so, and unheeding the ironical, if hesitating, laughter in the court. [11]
Then they had been friends, for his uncle of Vaufontaine had had a small estate in Bercy itself, in ironical proximity to the castle. [11]
She looked up at him with an ironical look, then held out her hand, and quickly bade him good-night. [11]
She touched his arm, and said with ironical sweetness: "How you relieve my mind! [11]
At Mulvaney's words, an ironical smile crossed the face of the newcomer. [11]
There was almost a touch of ironical smiling at her lips, as she thought how she must hear and feel things only, in the future. [11]

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