1 Scarlett seemed demure and sweet enough these days, but there was a pleased complacency in her eyes which annoyed people and she carried a chip on her shoulder which no one cared to disturb.
2 Indeed, he gradually came to regard it as such, and to feel a sense of personal complacency when he chanced on any reference to the Gryce Americana.
3 Such an assurance would usually have restored Mrs. Trenor's complacency; but on this occasion it did not chase the cloud from her brow.
4 The sight of Selden's dark head, in a pew almost facing her, disturbed for a moment the balance of her complacency.
5 Lily saw this now in Mrs. Gormer's unconcealable complacency, and in the happy irrelevance with which, for the next day or two, she quoted Bertha's opinions and speculated on the origin of her gown.
6 Edna could not control a feeling which bordered upon complacency at her friend's praise, even realizing, as she did, its true worth.
7 Radiating royalty, complacency, good humour, the wild child was Queen of the festival.
8 Mrs. Norris was all delight and volubility; and even Fanny had something to say in admiration, and might be heard with complacency.
9 He was certainly better pleased to hand her into the barouche than to assist her in ascending the box, and his complacency seemed confirmed by the arrangement.
10 'Wounded desperate, miss,' replied Giles, with indescribable complacency.
11 A queer doubt chilled my complacency.
12 There was something pathetic in his concentration as if his complacency, more acute than of old, was not enough to him any more.
13 She saw with maternal complacency all the impertinent encroachments and mischievous tricks to which her cousins submitted.
14 Once more, he took me by both hands and surveyed me with an air of admiring proprietorship: smoking with great complacency all the while.
15 But the difference was that Oblonsky, as he was doing the same as every one did, laughed complacently and good-humoredly, while Levin laughed without complacency and sometimes angrily.