To behave to her guest with such
superciliousness! Hardly even to speak to her!"
His immaculate fatigue-uniform, his calm
superciliousness, his obvious air of belonging to a superior class, were galling to Trent beyond measure.
By Jane, this attention was received with the greatest pleasure, but Elizabeth still saw
superciliousness in their treatment of everybody, hardly excepting even her sister, and could not like them; though their kindness to Jane, such as it was, had a value as arising in all probability from the influence of their brother's admiration.
With the
superciliousness of extreme youth, I put thirty-five as the utmost limit at which a man might fall in love without making a fool of himself.
I may remark that hitherto she had treated me with absolute
superciliousness, and, so far from answering my salutations, had always ignored them.
As he limped along the high street of Blackstable he looked with a tinge of
superciliousness at the people he passed.
Really very good!" said Nicholas with some unintentional
superciliousness, as if ashamed to confess that the sounds pleased him very much.
('Now, why should he ask that, with sudden
superciliousness?' thought Mr.
Noted reed-drawers were they too, and looked round upon the other three with some
superciliousness.
It is even observed that the wives who quote him to their self-willed husbands as a shining example in reality look down upon him and that nobody does so with greater
superciliousness than one particular lady whose lord is more than suspected of laying his umbrella on her as an instrument of correction.
A certain
superciliousness of look, coolness of manner, nonchalance of tone, express fully their sentiments on the point, without committing them by any positive rudeness in word or deed.
His little eyes glittered like mica discs--with curiosity, --though he tried to keep up a bit of
superciliousness. At first I was astonished, but very soon I became awfully curious to see what he would find out from me.