“What next?” the princess interrupted, smiling sardonically and not changing the expression of her eyes.
Leo Tolstoy. War and Peace: With bonus material from Give War and Peace A Chance by Andrew D. Kaufman . Simon & Schuster
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Wiping his plate with the last bite of bread, the old man pushed it into his mouth and leaned back, surveying me sardonically with his one blue eye.
Diana Gabaldon. Outlander (1991)
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The room was being redecorated. It was being redecorated as a memorial to a man who had volunteered to die. A sardonic old man, about two hundred years old,
Vonnegut, Kurt. 2 B R 0 2 B
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his long sardonic unrevealing face.
Margaret Atwood. The Handmaid's Tale (1986)
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The unwieldy humor characteristic of American politicians persisted even through the eruption. Doremus read about and sardonically “played up” in the Informer a minstrel show given at the National Convention of Boosters’ Clubs at Atlantic City, late in August.
Sinclair Lewis. It Can't Happen Here
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He was proud, sardonic, harsh to inferiority of every description