"Condescendingly" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... such a sudden and unexpected lightening of the man's face as he said it, such a momentary relief to his persistent gloom, that the Colonel, albeit inwardly dissenting from both letter and comment, smiled condescendingly. ...
— Colonel Starbottle's Client and Other Stories • Bret Harte
... of fire and brimstone? I will tell you, my friends," said Bonaparte condescendingly. "The imagination unaided cannot conceive it: but by the help of the Lord I will put it before your ...
— The Story of an African Farm • (AKA Ralph Iron) Olive Schreiner
... two, and the Cotton-Petticoats crowded all other ancient and honorable names off the map of Connecticut and nodded condescendingly to the Saltonwells and Hallistalls. Abbotts and Cabots tried to patronize them, but the plain unruffled Cotton-Petticoats held their peace ...
— Ptomaine Street • Carolyn Wells |
