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I am not prepared to receive company just yet,” she added, deridingly; “my room is rather unfurnished.”

From Helen and Arthur or, Miss Thusa's Spinning Wheel by Hentz, Caroline Lee

She seized the packet, patted the excellent thief on the shoulder, wagged her head deridingly at the delinquent one, and hobbled off to prepare her favorite beverage.

From Hidden Hand by Southworth, Emma Dorothy Eliza Nevitte

As he sometimes deridingly said, he "kept his gold in corporations, that were as soulless as himself."

From Homeward Bound or, the Chase by Cooper, James Fenimore

They reached the Buss with difficulty, and lay there idle while the mad waves revelled round the rocks, and danced through their works deridingly.

From The Story of the Rock by Ballantyne, R. M. (Robert Michael)

We are, you see, like Harlequin, and have more need of cash than advice;' and they left me, laughing deridingly at me.

From The American Quarterly Review, No. 17, March 1831 by Walsh, Robert