"Smugly" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... described. In these abandoned Legations and residences you can scarcely hear more than a distant rattle of musketry, and when you think how great the distances are it is very easy to understand why the panic occurred yesterday morning among the men on the outer lines, at which those smugly safe in the British Legation were so indignant. Occupying widely separated positions, imperfectly linked together, and with no responsible commander to watch them with a keen and discerning eye, the defenders of the eastern, ...
— Indiscreet Letters From Peking • B. L. Putman Weale
... weakness, But come, for He is remorseless, Call Him unjust, but come, Do not mock or defy Him, for he will prevail. He regardeth not you, He hath swallowed the worlds and the nations, He hath humor, too: disease and death for the smugly prosperous. ...
— Dreamers of the Ghetto • I. Zangwill
... Chinese darlings," inwardly delighted that the Maluka's simple trust seemed as guileless as ever, smugly professed themselves willing to fall in with any arrangement that was pleasing to the white folk, and as they mounted their horses Dan heaved a ...
— We of the Never-Never • Jeanie "Mrs. Aeneas" Gunn
... now that your subjects of conversation always bored me. I make no pretences; I frankly do not care for what you so smugly designate as 'the things of the mind' and 'things worth while.' I am no hypocrite: I like well bred, well dressed people; I like what they do and say and think. Their characters may be negative ...
— Athalie • Robert W. Chambers
... for F to rub her hands smugly and say, "We're on the right track, all right"? Weve been on the right track for months, but ...
— Greener Than You Think • Ward Moore
... it would not exist) has perhaps a dozen houses intact, looking strangely bourgeois, almost out of place, so smugly whole where all else has perished. Yet it was a comfort to see them, and wonderful to ...
— Everyman's Land • C. N. Williamson and A. M. Williamson
... this grim old town. Is it to the fashionable Bellevue that the nobility and the elect wend their way when they come to town? Not by any means. They affect the Rempf, and there you may see them in fat, inglorious plenty smugly execrating the plebeian rich of many lands who dismiss Rempf's with a sniff, and enjoying to their heart's content a privacy which the aforesaid rich would not ...
— A Fool and His Money • George Barr McCutcheon
... me libertine, or call me man of fashion; 'tis all one. My evil nature—C'est plus fort que moi. At least I have not played the hypocrite. No canting sighs! No lapses to morality and prayers! No vices smugly hidden! The plain straight road to hell taken at a gallop!" So, with chin in hand and dark eyes lit by the flickering flame, this roue and ...
— A Daughter of Raasay - A Tale of the '45 • William MacLeod Raine |
