The man hath many a foe, As far as I do know: You do not flout me, I hope.

'tis not unknown what service of words he hath been at; he lost his limbs in a late conflict of flout; a brave repulse and a hot assault it was, he doth protest, as ever he saw, since he knew what the report of a volley of jests were; he shall therefore desire you"A

Why, she will flout the devil, and make blush The boldest face of man that e'er man saw;

Degrading treatment of Indians residing in your dominions, and You have shown total disregard of our feelings by glorifying the Punjab administration and flouting the Mosulman sentiment.

His sovereign, who had been given the crowns of three kingdoms to defend our laws, showed his respect for them by flouting a legally constituted tribunal and disregarding its solemn finding.

Besides it is a jeering and flouting vice, and apt to put jests on the reprover.

"Even so, O Lord, rend Thou his kingdom from him!" cried Mahomet as he heard the story of his flouting.

If we acknowledge our obligation to the ancients, it is hardly to be done without some flouting of our contemporaries, who with all their faults must be allowed the merit of keeping the world habitable for the refined eulogists of the blameless past.

For although he flouteth the Pope with his ceremonies, yet he neither hath confuted nor overcome him; no enemy is beaten nor overcome with mocking, jeering, and flouting.

But do not show N. this, for the flouting infidel doth mock when Christians cry God bless us.

But in thus flouting the letter of the law, Hannah well knows that she will break her father's heart.

Suppliant-like for alms depending On a false and foreign court, Jostled by the flouting nobles, Half their pity, half their sport.

Truly, Betty's soul was torn within her, and for every smile that Yorke succeeded in winning he was sure to receive such dainty snubs, such mischievous flouting following swiftly after, that he almost despaired of ever carrying the outworks, much less the citadel of the willful maid's heart.

He's always got his knife into them, and I dare say he's glad of the chance of flouting them.

He delighted in flouting convention, gloried in outraging decency.

She was flouting him for it.

To love a beast in any sort, Is no great sign of grace; But I have loved a flouting Ape's 'Bove any lady's face.

I have no partiality for the word lesser, neither will I make myself ridiculous by flouting at its rudeness.

For twenty years you have dared to flout that love which is God's noblest heritage to His children.

Flouting the thieves.

Flouting the thieves.

It was chiefly to save Grizel the pain of thinking that he whom she had been flouting loved her, as she must think if she heard the story of the glove.

But the Princess saw him not, being eager upon her flouting of me.

Don Juan de la Borrasca was flouting his sixties, fighting for his youth as a parent fights for its young.

The garb of all was worn and frayed, With tatters grotesquely mended; But flouting the world, and undismayed, The three with fate contended.