Gully had pestered Darwin to subject himself to clairvoyance, and when he saw the clairvoyant, he tried to test her by asking her to read the number on a banknote he had in an envelope, but she scornfully said this was something her maidservant did and proceeded to diagnose horrors in Darwin's insides, a tale he recounted for years afterwards.

Jake scornfully remarks that " you can't keep what you give up ," and Maggie tells him that Jake never let Julie go, despite her death.

Dryden's sentiments about Shakespeare's matchless imagination and capacity for painting " nature " were echoed without a break in the 18th century by, for example, Joseph Addison (" Among the English, Shakespeare has incomparably excelled all others "), Alexander Pope (" every single character in Shakespeare is as much an Individual as those in Life itself "), and Samuel Johnson ( who scornfully dismissed Voltaire's and Rhymer's neoclassical Shakespeare criticism as " the petty cavils of petty minds ").

The Vala Yavanna forced the wizard Saruman to accept Radagast as a companion, which, Tolkien says, may have been one of the reasons Saruman was contemptuous of him, to the point of scornfully calling him " simple " and " a fool ".

She set the dipper on the edge of the deck, leaving it for him to stretch after it while she looked on scornfully.

On hearing that God had blessed Obed-edom because of the presence of the Ark in his house, David had the Ark brought to Zion by the Levites, while he himself, " girded with a linen ephod ," " danced before the Lord with all his might " and in the sight of all the public gathered in Jerusalem — a performance that caused him to be scornfully rebuked by his first wife, Saul's daughter Michal ( 2 Sam.

Wolf had scornfully rejected the libretto to Der Corregidor when it was first presented to him in 1890, but his determination to compose an opera blinded him to its faults upon second glance.

Pellieux described him scornfully as " a gentleman who still bore the uniform of the French army and who dared charge three generals with a forgery ".

With this however, Norcross was scornfully told, " if elected, that he might find town ' too hot to hold him ', if he executed his proposed reforms.

His skin is " almost as dark as his black hair " and an antagonist refers to him scornfully as a " great black ape ".

Ghori ordered him to lower his eyes, whereupon Prithviraj scornfully told him how he had treated Ghori as a prisoner. It is claimed that Ghori flew into a rage and ordered that Prithviraj's eyes be burnt with red hot iron rods, and he was later executed.

Irenaeus, ( c. 130 – 202 ) in his Against Heresies ( 1: 25 ; 6 ) says scornfully of the Gnostic Carpocratians, " They also possess images, some of them painted, and others formed from different kinds of material ; while they maintain that a likeness of Christ was made by Pilate at that time when Jesus lived among them.

Senior Waffen-SS commanders had little respect for Himmler and he was scornfully nicknamed " Reichsheini " by the Waffen-SS rank and file.

The increasing costs, both of organization and of competing, as well as safety concerns, have, over the last twenty years, brought progressively shorter rallies, shorter stages and the elimination of nighttime running, scornfully referred to as " office hours rallying " by older hands.

Glass-Steagall critics scornfully noted only Japanese legislation imposed by Americans during the Occupation of Japan kept the United States from being alone in separating the two activities.

As early as September he surprised the House by the marked abatement of his former " violent and fiery spirit ," and his changed attitude did not escape the taunts of his enemies, who attributed it scornfully to his disaster at Brentford or to his new wife.

Although such a distinction is implied in a few Roman passages, such as when Julius Caesar scornfully calls his soldiers quirites (" citizens ") rather than milites (" soldiers "), the word quirites had by this time been dissociated with the god Quirinus, and it is likely that Quirinus initially had an even more militaristic aspect than Mars, but that over time Mars, partially through synthesis with the Greek god Ares, became more warlike, while Quirinus became more domestic in connotation.

Soames, before being taken to Hell by the Devil, scornfully requests that Beerbohm at least try and make people believe that he, Soames, actually existed.

Prithviraj's appeal for help from his father-in-law was scornfully rejected by the haughty Jaichandra.

and the intelligent, cynical ones who scornfully reply that these things don't count any more in the world of to-day.

But the saint would laugh at them scornfully and say, " If any of you have any authority over me, only one would have been sufficient to fight me.

After Octavian's proposals for a conference with Antony had been scornfully rejected, both sides prepared for the final struggle next year.

" In critic Robert Christgau's description, " It was also a subculture that scornfully rejected the political idealism and Californian flower-power silliness of hippie myth.

On several occasions the disciples call Jesus the Son of God and even the Jews scornfully remind Jesus during his crucifixion of his claim to be the Son of God.

Siggeir, his brother-in-law, offered thrice its weight in gold for the sword, but Sigmund scornfully said no.

These the king scornfully rejected.

John Stuart Mill, discussing the fallibility of the moral consensus in his Essay " On Liberty " ( 1859 ) refers scornfully to the odium theologicum, saying that, in a sincere bigot, it is one of the most unequivocal cases of moral feeling.

Bright scornfully dismissed it as ' a jobbers ' war ,' war on behalf of a privileged class of capitalists, and resigned from the Gladstone cabinet.

Troy pretends to consider the offer, then scornfully announces they are already married.

Like most of his party, Bayard opposed " Mr. Madison's War " as the War of 1812 was sometimes scornfully called, but like the Democratic-Republicans, he was outraged at the British actions on the high seas and recognized the need for action.

The scientific establishment at first dismissed it scornfully and the Church of England reacted with fury, but many Unitarians, Quakers and Baptists opposed to the privileges of the Established church favoured its ideas of God acting through such laws.

Tanacharison scornfully called it " that little thing upon the meadow " and complained that Washington would not listen to advice and treated the Indians like slaves.

He was said to have been christened with the unusual name " Lido " because he was conceived during his parents ' honeymoon in the Lido district in Venice, however, he refutes this rumor in his autobiography, saying that is romantic but not true: his father went to Lido long before his marriage and was traveling with his future wife's brother.

Through this device, Renoir refutes the notion that one common man's bravery, honor, or duty can make an impact on a great event.

The latest biography of Sickert-in the final chapter Sturgis refutes the notion that Sickert was Jack the Ripper, but also claims that if Sickert were still alive he would enjoy his current notoriety.

Lady Rectitude also refutes allegations that women are unchaste, inconstant, unfaithful, and mean by nature through her stories.

A letter of Jerome to Marcella, written in 385, refutes the claims of Montanists that had been troubling her.

Little Eliza was born the following February, which refutes persistent rumors that her mother was pregnant with her at the time of the wedding.

Professor Robert Waite refutes her claims that Adolf Hitler had stayed with her as well as most of the rest of her book in the appendix to his book The Psychopathic God: Adolf Hitler.

Willie refutes her, Berniece blames Crawley's death on Willie, and the two engage in a fight.

As she persistently approaches Captain Evans, in a vexed mood, he advises her that they believe Danny was a ' dirty ' cop, something which, based on her knowledge of her brother's character, she strenuously refutes.