1 the contentment of the quiet dead, who are scornful of the living for their restless walking.
2 Why it is that all Merchant-seamen, and also all Pirates and Man-of-War's men, and Slave-ship sailors, cherish such a scornful feeling towards Whale-ships; this is a question it would be hard to answer.
3 Leo, in a low voice, tossed off some scornful remark in Bohemian.
4 But the scornful expression of the young man's eye admitted of so many constructions, that the worthy scout was spared the mortification of such a discovery.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore CooperContext Highlight In CHAPTER 26 5 "The Lord never visits these parts," said the woman, bitterly, as she went nimbly forward with her work; and again the scornful smile curled her lips.
6 When she presented her basket at the scales, he had hoped for some concession, and addressed her in a sort of half conciliatory, half scornful tone; and she had answered with the bitterest contempt.
7 Her wan, scornful mouth smiled and so I drew her up again, closer, this time to my face.
8 When the butler brought back Wolfshiem's answer I began to have a feeling of defiance, of scornful solidarity between Gatsby and me against them all.
9 She seemed much older than I, of course, being a girl, and beautiful and self-possessed; and she was as scornful of me as if she had been one-and-twenty, and a queen.
10 But as he sat gloating over me, I was supported by a scornful detestation of him that sealed my lips.
11 "I've no money," he snapped out, and with a scornful laugh he went out of the room.
12 stern, and scornful monster among the smiling birch trees.
13 They threw seeds from their hand as if they deigned to fling a scornful gift, and the earth was a beggar under their feet.
14 We stopped and we saw that their eyes, so hard and scornful to the world, were looking at us as if they would obey any word we might speak.
15 He only just looked scornful, and said something about nobody ever heard of such an idiotic idea, and then he went to studying.