There was a contemptuous snort, and a moment's silence.
There was a note of hatred and contemptuous repulsion in her words.
When he ventured to glance her way again her face was cold, stern, and he fancied even contemptuous.
The big fellow curled one corner of his lip in a contemptuous smile, then glanced about him quickly and asked:
She laughed--a mirthless, bitter, contemptuous laugh, which was like a jarring chord in the music of her voice.
Hearing her husband's steps, she stopped, looking towards the door, and trying assiduously to give her features a severe and contemptuous expression.
Instead of dismissing his fulsome nonsense with a contemptuous smile, Lady Georgina perked herself up with a conscious air of coquetry, and asked for more.
Mortified pride--doubly mortified by Naomi's contemptuous refusal and by the personal indignity offered to him by Ambrose--was at the bottom of his conduct in absenting himself from Morwick.
Were it not that here and there a weak soul is paralysed by the presence of the monstrous lie, and we dare not allow sympathy to be swallowed up of even righteous disdain, a contemptuous denial would be enough.
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