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Scornfully Kappesser read off the reviewer's initials: "H.R.B."

From Time Magazine Archive

Scornfully, a defense lawyer said Shettles' work was as different from the achievement of Steptoe and Edwards as "a Model T Ford is from a Porsche."

From Time Magazine Archive

Scornfully, the old actors reject his manuscript: "Why, sir, there isn't a speech in it . . . nothing a man can really get his teeth into."

From Time Magazine Archive

Scornfully, Ezra decides that most of its people live dull, stagnant lives in little duck ponds while secretly hoping for "miracle, excitement and sensation."

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Scornfully watching the chaotic maneuvers, the Warlord would criticize first one then the other for the shortcomings of the creatures they represented.

From "Redwall" by Brian Jacques