36 collocations for jeers

And so we went to jeer a group of enthusiasts that willingly forfeit all delights of the world in the hope of realising a new aestheticism; we went insolent with patent leather shoes and bright kid gloves and armed with all the jargon of the school.

Faintly he heard jeering remarks from the crowd; then laughter.

She received his effort with jeering laughter and taunting words; moving her body, now and then, among the cushions, with an air of purely physical enjoyment that, to the other, was maddening.

Wood himself confesses, who was an avowed enemy to Marvel, 'that Dr. Parker judged it more prudent rather to lay down the cudgels, than to enter the lists again, with an untowardly combatant, so hugely well versed, and experienced, in the then newly refined art of sporting, and jeering buffoonery.'

Then suddenly he would hear that jeering bell clanging, "Too stout, too stout."

Father Holt being inside, a great mob of people came hooting and jeering round the coach, bawling out, "The Bishops forever!"

The bottle passed freely round the circle, and with toast and taunt and jeer the counting of the money was progressing.

And they were without honor and respect, jeering the old-time customs and laughing in the faces of chief and shamans.

"He's afraid to bet," jeered the daughter.

He was alone once more in the darkness and the drenching rain; alone with a little gibing voice that seemed to come from within and yet was surely the voice of a devil jeering a devil's tattoo in time to his horse's hoof-beats, telling him he was mad, mad, mad!

He'd banter Apostolic castings, As you jeer fishermen at Hastings.

In one village a group of half-drunken men, who insisted on jeering the Germans were put at the head of a column and compelled to march several miles before they were released.

Awed by the presence of the fireman, Simpson's followers confined themselves to cheering Brick and jeering Joe.

Then he broke out into singing, beating time on the gunwale of the boat with such violence that it menaced capsizing every minute, and to all my remonstrances he replied by jeering and more uproarious jollity.

You lookin' for better odds, Harv?" jeered the leader of the party.

You courteous Gallant, You that scorn all I can bestow, that laugh at The afflictions, and the groans I suffer for you, That slight and jeer my love, contemn the fortune

She raced to her home, decked herself in all the splendid jewels he had given her, stuck red roses in her black hair, and stood on a high roof and jeered her lover as he fled for his life through the narrow streets.

Miss Fairbanks turned on her heel and walked away laughing, while several of the clerks began jeering Maggie quietly.

Behind the three girls, however, appeared Gregoire, with jeering mien, and his hands in his pockets.

The cars were overdue, and Haynes, whose haughty spirit could not brook the idea of being passed by jeering plutocrats, propounded a scheme.

Groups of strikers gathered at the street corners and jeered the armed posse.

When one has seen the whole scene shifted round and round so often, one only smiles, whoever is the present Polonius or the Gravedigger, whether they jeer the Prince, or flatter his phrenzy.

Y'are a quean, a scoffing, jeering quean.

These reverberations seem freighted with elfin voices that jeer the insensate rocks for their baffled scheme of mischief.

The faithless, moaning, jeering sea!

36 collocations for  jeers