Nevertheless the critical and restraining tendency of Malherbe was not ill in place after the luxuriant importation and innovation of the Pleiade; and if he had confined himself to preaching greater technical perfection, and especially greater simplicity and purity in vocabulary and versification, instead of superciliously striking his pen through the great works of his predecessors, he would have deserved wholly well. [Please select]
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"There's a measure in all things," Luzhin went on superciliously. [Please select]
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"I don't think you can see her," she said shortly, scanning his country cut of hair and clothes rather superciliously. [Please select]
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At their first encounter Paul bowed and spoke pleasantly, but Dawkins looked superciliously at him without appearing to know him. [Please select]
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My amiable colleague would receive me superciliously and laugh at my ambitious aims. [Please select]
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"All sorts of people keep booths here," answered the young man, glancing superciliously at Raskolnikov. [Please select]
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Forgetting her burden, when this she had said, The maid superciliously tossed up her head: When, alas for her prospects. [Please select]
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