In time, however, there came another youth, as true, I dare say, as the first, but not so well known to me, and I shrugged my shoulders
cynically to see my old friend once more a matchmaker.
And if anybody remarks
cynically that I must have been a promising infant in those days, let that stand, too.
Pierre recalled how Helene had smilingly expressed disapproval of Dolokhov's living at their house, and how
cynically Dolokhov had praised his wife's beauty to him and from that time till they came to Moscow had not left them for a day.
He returned to his chest, and
cynically composed himself to slumber.
"It took her just that long to find out she couldn't get anybody else," said Dan,
cynically.
During the two centuries while England had been steadily winning her way to constitutional government, France had past more and more completely under the control of a
cynically tyrannical despotism and a
cynically corrupt and cruel feudal aristocracy.
`I guess after you got here you had plenty of live dolls to nurse, like me!' Lena remarked
cynically.
They laughed
cynically at my face, at my clumsy figure; and yet what stupid faces they had themselves.
"It is for you to decide, captain," said he
cynically; "but this one will make no deeference.
Martin smiled
cynically as he let his thoughts drift along this channel.
"I think of people more kindly when I am away from them"; adding
cynically, "God knows; perhaps we will shake down together some day, for weariness; thousands have done it!"
"Hot words (in ink) from the leddy to the gentleman!" He ran his eye over the second letter, on the fourth page of the paper, and added,
cynically, "A trifle caulder (in pencil) from the gentleman to the leddy!