As Sue had not brought disgrace upon the school by drowning herself, the matron began to speak superciliously of her, and to express gladness that she was gone.
And however superciliously the highbrows carp, we the public in our heart of hearts all like a success story; so perhaps my ending is not so unsatisfactory after all.
" You take remedial Potions? " asked Zacharias Smith superciliously, having cornered Harry in the Entrance Hall after lunch. " Good Lord, you must be terrible. Snape doesn't usually give extra lessons, does he? "
I cannot agree with the painters who claim superciliously that the layman can understand nothing of painting, and that he can best show his appreciation of their works by silence and a cheque-book.
'A speaker, if the gentleman likes it better, ' said Mr. E. W. B. Childers, superciliously throwing the interpretation over his shoulder, and accompanying it with a shake of his long hair—which all shook at once.
“一个演讲者,如果这位先生更喜欢话,”E. W. B. 奇尔德斯先生说,傲慢地将翻译扔在他肩膀上,并伴随着他长头发一抖——所有头发都在一瞬间抖动。
I know that a kind of fashion now prevails of respecting prejudices; and when any one dares to face them, though actuated by humanity and armed by reason, he is superciliously asked, whether his ancestors were fools.
She took no notice of me until she had the candle in her hand, when she looked over her shoulder, superciliously saying, " You are to come this way to-day, " and took me to quite another part of the house.