294 collocations for mocking

O mock no more the beggar man, You'll scorn wi' pride!

How bowed the woods beneath their sturdy stroke! Let not Ambition mock their useful toil, Their homely joys, and destiny obscure; Nor Grandeur hear with a disdainful smile, The short and simple annals of the poor.

Ending in gloom together here Though not one star of Hope appear, Still through the cold bleak Future gaze, That mocks thee with its murky haze; Soon morn shall end the doubt, the strife, And give unto thy weeping eyes The far night-guarded Paradise!

Or instant death shall end thy vital day." "Where yonder splendid tapestries extend, And o'er pavilions bright infolding bend, A throne triumphal shines with sapphire rays, And golden suns upon the banners blaze; Full in the centre of the hostsand round The tent a hundred elephants are bound, As if, in pomp, he mocked the power of fate; There royal Káús holds his kingly state.

If they are not in earnest in such words they mock God; but if they are in earnest, some of them, I fear much, tempt God.

An empty fortress mocks his searching eye, No steel-clad chiefs his burning wrath defy; No warrior-maid reviving passion warms, And soothes his soul with fondly-valued charms.

But Martin had a very determined spirit for a small boy, and although this appearance of water mocked his efforts a hundred times every day with its vanishing brightness and beauty, he would not give up the pursuit.

Erminia, do not mock my misery, For though you cannot love, yet pity me; That you allow my Passion no return, Is weight enough, you need not add your Scorn, In this your Cruelty is too severe.

I maintain, and will to the last hour, that I never writ of you but con amore; that if any allusion was made to your near-sightedness, it was not for the purpose of mocking an infirmity, but of connecting it with scholar-like habits,for is it not erudite and scholarly to be somewhat near of sight before age naturally brings on the malady?

Confusion on thy banners wait; Though fanned by conquest's crimson wing, They mock the air with idle state.

Far ahead the red sardonic eye in the rear of the limousine leered as if mocking their hopes of keeping it in sight.

In these secluded vales, if village fame, Confirmed by hoary hairs, belief may claim; When up the hills, as now, retired the light, 195 Strange apparitions mocked the shepherd's sight.

There the antic sate Mocking our state his queer visnomyhis bewildering costumeall the strange things which he had raked togetherhis serpentine rod, swagging about in his pocketCleopatra's tear, and the rest of his relicsO'Keefe's wild farce, and his wilder commentarytill the passion of laughter, like grief in excess, relieved itself by its own weight, inviting the sleep which in the first instance it had driven away.

Then it was that the tired old Earth stopped thinking and began to feela thrilla throba pulsing of new lifethe stirring of new hopes which mocked its fears of cold or frost or sorrow or death.

the same world Of winter and the wintry hearts of men; And still, for all thy shining, the same swarm That mocked thy song gather about thy fame, With the small murmur of the undying worm, And whisper, blind and foul, amid thy dust.

Yea, chain him howling to yon desert rock, Where, thronging ghastly from uncounted graves, His victims murmur 'midst the groans of waves, And mock his soul's despair, his deep blaspheming ban!

And with inexpiable spirit To taint the bloodless freedom of the mountaineer O France, that mockest Heaven, adulterous, blind, And patriot only in pernicious toils!

The people were dying of the unaccustomed food which mocked their prayer for daily bread, and were carried to the graveyard in a coffin from which the benevolent strangers who had come to their relief had to drop them, like dead dogs, that there might be a covering for the next corpse in its turn.

"Sir," said the woman, peering up in Beltane's face, "Lordah, would ye mock the weak and helpless" "Nay," said Beltane gently, "as God seeth me, to-night the prisoners shall go free, or this man and I die with them.

I stood on the brink in manhood, And it came to my weary heart, In my breast so dull and heavy, After the years of smart, That every hollowest bubble Which over my life had passed Still into its deeper current Some sky-sweet gleam had cast; That, however I mocked it gayly, And guessed at its hollowness, Still shone, with each bursting bubble, One star in my soul the less.

Like a kid decoyed to its death, the stealthy panther lures, Mocking the voice of its dam, thus he led the innocent child Through her tenderness down to ruin, he is a friend of yours, And admired by all; as you say, "men will be wild.

But this was only the first of a series of singular and fatal oversights that almost seemed pre-ordained by mocking Fate.

The Bitternmonarch of the sad and dreary place, Mocking the pride and pageant of a ruin'd race, Whose very name's forgotten, and whose deeds have left no trace.

And now, methinks, O most worthy Hippocrates, you should not reprehend my laughing, perceiving so many fooleries in men; [240]for no man will mock his own folly, but that which he seeth in a second, and so they justly mock one another.

There the antic sate Mocking our state his queer visnomyhis bewildering costumeall the strange things which he had raked togetherhis serpentine rod, swagging about in his pocketCleopatra's tear, and the rest of his relicsO'Keefe's wild farce, and his wilder commentarytill the passion of laughter, like grief in excess, relieved itself by its own weight, inviting the sleep which in the first instance it had driven away.

294 collocations for  mocking