" If Will Ladislaw could have overheard some of the talk at Freshitt that morning, he would have felt all his suppositions confirmed as to the readiness of certain people to sneer at his lingering in the neighborhood.
It was not that he was exacting and querulous; on the contrary, he never complained, he asked for nothing, he was perfectly silent; but he seemed to resent the care that was taken of him; he received all inquiries about his feelings or his needs with a jibe, a sneer, or an oath.
"Come on, Tink," he cried, with a frightful sneer at the laws of nature; "we don't want any silly mothers;" and he flew away.
Don't sneer if we lie drunk on the battleground; Time rarely sees fighters come back safe and sound.
" His upper lip curled up in a sneer when he said those last two words.
" she would sneer.
" And echoes, trains away, Sneer -- "Where?
" "I suppose you would hardly ask me to call you a humane man," returned the doctor with a sneer, "and so my feelings may surprise you, Master Silver.
Never help out a sneer, even at the devil.
Reynard laughed heartily, and said, with a sneer: "You a king, and not understand a trap!
