"Scornful" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... good and wet swimming in," says she, still scornful, "and you would have got pounded to pieces against the sea wall; that's what would have happened to you. Some folks," says she, "ain't fit ...
— The Man Next Door • Emerson Hough
... prayer and fast. Then rich in hope, with faith sincere, With sighs, and hands in anguish press'd, The end of that sore plague, with many a tear, From heaven's dread Lord, I sought to wrest. The crowd's applause assumes a scornful tone. Oh, could'st thou in my inner being read, How little either sire or son, Of such renown deserves the meed! My sire, of good repute, and sombre mood, O'er nature's powers and every mystic zone, With honest zeal, but methods of his own, With toil fantastic loved ...
— Faust Part 1 • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
... Swinburne has said with tact, precision, and finality all that need ever be said on the subject. He records, with a touch of not unkindly humour, his own 'deep diversion of collating and comparing the variously inaccurate verdicts of the scornful or mournful censors who insisted on regarding all the studies of passion or sensation attempted or achieved in it as either confessions of positive fact or excursions of absolute fancy.' And, admitting that ...
— Figures of Several Centuries • Arthur Symons
... a scornful reply to Teeny-bits' challenge and let escape the remark that he wasn't a "baby-killer" ...
— The Mark of the Knife • Clayton H. Ernst
... get out of that!" was the scornful reply. "You know what Doctor Shaw told you about that sort ...
— The Case of Richard Meynell • Mrs. Humphry Ward
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