"And you picked the Last Chance?" he asked scoffingly. From Wordnik.com. [Best Kept Secrets]
Crampas called him one, scoffingly at the time, but he was right. From Wordnik.com. [The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 12] Reference
'You couldn't do it,' said Douglas scoffingly; 'girls can't climb!'. From Wordnik.com. [Odd] Reference
"I wouldn't wear one of them rigs on a bet," he had scoffingly answered. From Wordnik.com. [Amarilly of Clothes-line Alley] Reference
"And she calls 'erself a lady!" says Sarah, scoffingly, to Judith later on. From Wordnik.com. [When the Birds Begin to Sing] Reference
Then he guffawed scoffingly like a lunatic although the pleasure soon extinguished itself. From Wordnik.com. [Corpus of a Siam Mosquito] Reference
But here presumptuous men rise up, and scoffingly inquire, whence was this revealed to Moses?. From Wordnik.com. [Commentary on Genesis - Volume 1] Reference
Democritus went high, even to the thought of a resurrection, as scoffingly recorded by Pliny. From Wordnik.com. [Hydriotaphia, or Urn-burial] Reference
It seems to be spoken scoffingly: "Art thou of those Galileans that believe in this Galilean?". From Wordnik.com. [From the Talmud and Hebraica] Reference
"No, she ain't," pronounced another scoffingly -- "ain't lighted yet -- no one's got the nerve to do it.". From Wordnik.com. [Bart Stirling's Road to Success Or, The Young Express Agent] Reference
But this thou must do, not scoffingly, not by way of exprobation, but tenderly without any harshness of words. From Wordnik.com. [Meditations] Reference
Evidently Peggy would, for she scoffingly ordered. From Wordnik.com. [Rose O'Paradise] Reference
Even her own son, Jim, was scoffingly indifferent. From Wordnik.com. [Tropic Days] Reference
"Oh -- windows," said the county attorney scoffingly. From Wordnik.com. [The Best Short Stories of 1917 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story] Reference
"Travelers 'exaggerations," said the old man scoffingly. From Wordnik.com. [Nobody's Girl (En Famille)] Reference
Rube said scoffingly; 'of course we are going to escape. From Wordnik.com. [On the Pampas] Reference
Durkin laughed, a little recklessly, a little scoffingly. From Wordnik.com. [Phantom Wires A Novel] Reference
"I see you don't believe in my theory," said he scoffingly. From Wordnik.com. [The Green Mummy] Reference
"Local Government Board Inspector!" he exclaimed scoffingly. From Wordnik.com. [In the Mayor's Parlour] Reference
"Well, aren't you going to tell him better?" said Mark scoffingly. From Wordnik.com. [Dead Man's Land Being the Voyage to Zimbambangwe of certain and uncertain] Reference
One of them scoffingly replied, I wish we never do a greater fault. From Wordnik.com. [Biographia Scoticana (Scots Worthies) A Brief Historical Account of the Lives, Characters, and Memorable Transactions of the Most Eminent Scots Worthies] Reference
"As if we couldn't get the keys if we wanted them!" scoffingly retorted. From Wordnik.com. [The Channings] Reference
And Abraham went privately to their gods, and said, scoffingly unto them. From Wordnik.com. [The Koran (Al-Qur'an)] Reference
'Do I look as though I were acquainted with bishops?' said he, scoffingly. From Wordnik.com. [The Bishop's Secret] Reference
He that commanded them, scoffingly asked me, What I thought of my self now?. From Wordnik.com. [Biographia Scoticana (Scots Worthies) A Brief Historical Account of the Lives, Characters, and Memorable Transactions of the Most Eminent Scots Worthies] Reference
"What bright, particular star were you worshipping now?" he asked scoffingly. From Wordnik.com. [Weighed and Wanting] Reference
"As if we should wait to be starved," another of the students said scoffingly. From Wordnik.com. [A Girl of the Commune] Reference
Fortune Lapersonne listened open-eyed, and grumbled scoffingly between his teeth. From Wordnik.com. [Penguin Island] Reference
The words made a neat label, he scoffingly thought, for his own present sensations. From Wordnik.com. [Sir George Tressady — Volume I] Reference
Patty had scoffingly repudiated the idea, but now she was half willing to believe it. From Wordnik.com. [When Patty Went to College] Reference
"A baby ain't nuthin 'extry, nohow" -- he glanced scoffingly at the infantile Grinnell. From Wordnik.com. [The Riddle Of The Rocks 1895] Reference
And they scoffingly say, O LORD, hasten our sentence unto us, before the day of account. From Wordnik.com. [The Koran (Al-Qur'an)] Reference
As Dalzell offered this explanation he faced Lieutenant Barnes, who was eying him scoffingly. From Wordnik.com. [Dave Darrin on Mediterranean Service or, With Dan Dalzell on European Duty] Reference
Yet all these things are of little force to move the hearts of those Gentiles who scoffingly cry. From Wordnik.com. [Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo Volume 2] Reference
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