"Contemptuous" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... drawings came to him, he glanced at them for a moment, and then threw them down with a little contemptuous laugh. ...
— Guy Livingstone; - or, 'Thorough' • George A. Lawrence
... the intense splendor of Pasta's perfected genius. One of the notices of the opening performance at the King's Theatre, when Mme. Camporese sang the leading role of Cimarosa's "Penelope," followed up a lavish eulogium on the prima donna with the contemptuous remark, "Two subordinate singers named Pasta and Mari came forward in the characters of Telamuco and Arsi-noe, but their musical talent does not require minute delineation." There is every reason ...
— Great Singers, First Series - Faustina Bordoni To Henrietta Sontag • George T. Ferris
... trip, for when we got as far as Stanhope, on the Morris and Essex road, our money had given out. I offered the station-master my watch as security for the price of two tickets to New York, but he bestowed only a contemptuous glance upon it and remarked that there were a good many fakirs running about the country palming off "snide" gold watches on people. Our lantern outfit found no more favor with him, and we were compelled to ...
— The Making of an American • Jacob A. Riis
... coursed, burning, through his veins; the other's contemptuous manner stung him more fiercely ...
— The Strollers • Frederic S. Isham
... effort to resist, but the stout sailors easily handled him, and bore him down into the steerage. He was thrust into the brig, ironed as he was, and the door locked upon him. Shuffles glanced at the interior of the prison, and broke out into a contemptuous laugh. He then commenced kicking the pales of the partition? but he might as well have attempted to ...
— Outward Bound - Or, Young America Afloat • Oliver Optic
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