 | Henry Adams - 2007 - 214 頁
...that of scorn, or sneer, or ridicule. The loud laugh often rose at my expense; the dry jest; the wise calculation of losses and expenditures; the dull but...remark, a bright hope, or a warm wish cross my path." Possibly Fulton and Fitch, like other inventors, may have exaggerated the public apathy and contempt;... | |
 | 1873 - 336 頁
...of scorn, or sneer, or ridicule. The loud laugh often rose at my expense ; the dry jest ; the wise calculation of losses and expenditures ; the dull...wish cross my path. Silence itself was but politeness vailing its doubts or hiding its reproaches. 8. " At length, the day arrived when the experiment was... | |
 | 1873
...of scorn, or sneer, or ridicule. The loud laugh often rose at my expense ; the dry jest ; the wise calculation of losses and expenditures ; the dull...cross my path. • Silence itself was but politeness vailing its doubts or hiding its reproaches. 8. " At length, the day arrived when the experiment was... | |
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The language was uniformly that of scorn, or sneer, or ridicule. The loud laugh often rose at my expense ; the dry jest ; the wise calculation of losses and expenditures ; the dull, but endless, repetition of the Fulton Folly. 
