"Witheringly" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... bein' ahl dressed up as I was in me coat, she couldn't see me suspenders to tell was I comin' or goin'!" Jim Hutch turned from him witheringly. ...
— Down the Mother Lode • Vivia Hemphill
... bit the gold piece between her teeth, rang it on the counter, and then looked me and my rags witheringly up and down. ...
— The People of the Abyss • Jack London
... are hardly likely to get any extra milk dished out to them. I did not see the joke at first; but on application to that autocratic beggar—Quartermaster King was his tally—he fully explained things to me in that witheringly sarcastic manner ...
— War and the Weird • Forbes Phillips
... Attorney and Counselor at Law, as his sign read, was, for many reasons, a fortunate man. For many other reasons he was not. He was chiefly fortunate in being, as certain opponents often strove witheringly to designate him, "the son of his father," since that sound old gentleman was the wealthiest farmer in that section; with but one son and heir to supplant him, in time, in the role of "county god," and haply perpetuate the prouder title of "the biggest taxpayer on ...
— Complete Works of James Whitcomb Riley • James Whitcomb Riley |
