| 1. | Blanche Ingram, after having repelled, by supercilious taciturnity, some efforts of Mrs. - from Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte |
| 2. | For, though elated by his rank, it did not render him supercilious on the contrary, he was all attention to everybody. - from Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen |
| 3. | She smilesmirked supercilious wept aren't men, but, lightward gliding, mild she smiled on Boylan. - from Ulysses by James Joyce |
| 4. | Besides this, in his behavior to women Anatole had a manner which particularly inspires in them curiosity, awe, and even love--a supercilious consciousness of his own superiority. - from War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy |