Soil surrounding grain farmed initially with contempt

Usage examples of scornfully.

As if sixteen minutes mattered, he thought scornfully, though pleased he had learned gai-jin timekeeping so quickly.

Reaching a clump of trees-creaking gum trees, Melia had scornfully called them-he halted and set the cask down beneath the gnarled and hollow trunk of one that did, indeed, look as if it had been dead for centuries.

Gerry scornfully, and strode into the televisor room, dark eyes narrowed dangerously.

Spanish moss from the pillared veranda of an antebellum mansion by an imposing liveried black, the sun gleaming on the strong lineaments of his brow arching disdainfully as a decrepit horse and buggy bearing an aging woman and a handsome intense young man standing to snap his whip imperiously came close for an exchange of unheard words to be pointed scornfully on their way, glimpsed from behind a curtain by a ravishingly beautiful young woman in negligee in their retreat back down the drive.

There were no kickshaws, by which term Mr Templecombe scornfully described fondues and trifles and jellies, opining sagely that Philip had no greater liking for them than he had himself.

It was something new, he had told her scornfully at the bar, Victor Kolinski having only one bimbo on tap.

Moved by the just indignation of a man well over forty, menaced in what is dearest to him - his repose and his security - he asked himself scornfully what else could have been expected from such a lot, this Karl Yundt, this Michaelis - this Ossipon.

But the queen, instead of thanking Herries for this devotion, seemed very much surprised at his boldness, and scornfully signing to him to rise, she coldly replied that her heart was silent as regarded the Earl of Bothwell, and that, if she should ever remarry, which was not probable, she would neither forget what she owed to her people nor what she owed to herself.

One carried a gun and the other a hatchet, and they scrutinised him and his cudgel scornfully.

The Duke of Raincy la-tour looked back at me with cool, clear eyes, smiling half aloofly, a little scornfully, as in the presence of danger the true Frenchman is apt to smile.

The idea of renewing the attack never came into my head, and if it had I should have scornfully rejected it.

Harper murmured, for the object which Bautista had scornfully shied at Sharpe was the signed portrait of Napoleon that had been stolen in Valdivia.

A flash of icy anger twisted Kiera’s thoughts, while Al simply sneered scornfully.

He had proposed for Miss Swartz, but had been rejected scornfully by the partizans of that lady, who married her to a young sprig of Scotch nobility.

The voice laughed scornfully: Treeing his sword arm if he had a sword!