Example Sentences

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How Bonfils, like Desperate Desmond, and Tammen, like a malicious cherub, must have gloated!

From Time Magazine Archive

You have gloated enough on the daughter's impertinent visage.

From London Pride Or When the World Was Younger by Braddon, M. E. (Mary Elizabeth)

They have gloated over the death of Joan Darc.

From The Executioner's Knife Or Joan of Arc by Sue, Eug?ne

How some of those eyes must have gloated out their green leering!

From Quiet Talks about Jesus by Gordon, S. D. (Samuel Dickey)

Mr. Rice in his narratives can tell such tales as the old ballad-makers would have gloated over, and can make them contemporary and convincing.

From Sea Poems by Rice, Cale Young