76 collocations for taunted

The sophomores were jubilant, and they taunted the freshmen.

When a slave was to be punished, he would frequently invite some of his friends, have a table, cards and wine set out under the shade; he would then flog his slave a little while, and then play cards and drink with his friends, occasionally taunting the slave, giving him the privilege of confessing such and such things, at his leisure, after a while flog him again, thus keeping it up for hours or half the day, and sometimes all day.

Now he decided that his own time had come and knowing that the combat was mental as well as physical he taunted his opponent.

To meet them joyous forth their women came, And led them back in triumph to the fold; Taunting their foes with many a bitter shame, Though now they lay in Death's aims stark and cold: Whilst the poor captives, rack'd with fear and woe, Cower'd close together from Fate's hapless blow.

Every opportunity was maliciously seized to taunt the colored people with their complexion.

We have a fine right, to be sure, to taunt men of the world with superficial and treacherous courtesies!

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.

He taunted his captive with the fact that he had always considered himself above his neighbors, and that now he could not command means enough to purchase the silence and friendship of a score of beggars!

But before the dais the wave paused, since in it were those who could not forego the joy of taunting Lapo Cercamorte before killing him.

She taunted the child with being picked up from the streets and sent her out begging, rewarding her with beatings if she did not bring her at least six pence at night, until at last she ran away from Screech-Owl and hid in a wood-yard for the night.

The Peishwa taunted the Council with breach of faith, and refused to give up Toolajee.

There were comic articles in the newspapers, taunting the German Count who had made those gas-bags.

To one who has learned to know their song in warm pleasant places by the Mediterranean, it seemed to taunt the country, and make it still bleaker by suggested contrast.

THE PEACOCK AND THE CRANE A Peacock taunted a Crane with the dullness of her plumage.

He lost no opportunity of taunting the unconvicted criminal in the bitterest terms in the Senate, and of exchanging with himvery much to the detriment of his own character and dignity, in our modern eyesthe coarsest jests when they met in the street.

It is never a good thing to taunt the dead!

Whether they did talk about her, or whether it was Jane's ugly temper, that led her to taunt Emily, I do not know.

"A great lot of fighters, you are," he taunted his enemies.

Le Gros fancied we were about to anchor under the battery, and that we had hoisted our flags to taunt the English, for caps and hats were waved in exultation in the boat, then distant from us a quarter of a mile.

A hundred candles danced and blinked before him like so many taunting eyes and turned him dizzy with a sickening nausea.

To stand aloof, like one that's in a trance, And with thine eyes behold that miscreant imp, Whose tongue['s] more venom['s] than the serpent's sting, Before thy face thus taunt thy dearest friends Ay, thine own fatherwith reproachful terms!

It seemed to Anthea that it was laughing at her,mocking, and taunting her withthe future.

English newspapers began to taunt the Germans with permitting their navy to "rust in the Kiel Canal.

The smiling flash in Jean's eyes began to irritate him; the fearless, taunting gleam of his teeth, his audacious confidence, put him on edge.

Apparently a relentless, terrible fanatic and bitter hater of the English, for his councils were all of blood and fire, rapine and slaughter, he taunted his hearers with their supine cowardice in that the Military Prison still held out, its handful of defenders still manned its walls, nay, from time to time, made sallies and terrible reprisals upon a careless ill-disciplined enemy.

76 collocations for  taunted