Like smoke upon a battlefield, it rolled away.... I was standing on the gravel path below the second terrace when the familiar goblin garden danced back again, doubly grotesque now, doubly mocking, yet, by way of contrast, almost welcome.

Dick's voice had a faintly mocking note.

As he went he glanced up suddenly at the softly mocking face on the wall, and a sharp spasm contracted his harsh features.

Of shows delusive curs'd be the dominion, Within whose mocking sphere our sense is bound!

Youth, rarely wise in action, is often wise in thought; and Arthur, having a reasoning apparatus that worked uncommonly well when he set it in motion and did not interfere with it, was soon seeing his situation as a whole much as it wasugly, mocking, hopeless.