Loud voices about, but invisible to him, were swearing and gibing.

The long blades whirled and flashed and rang upon the stillness; and ever, as they fought, the stranger smiled his wry smile, mocking and gibing at him, whereat Beltane's mouth grew the grimmer and his blows the heavier, yet wherever he struck, there already was the stranger's blade to meet him, whereat the stranger laughed fierce

To the rush and throb of his engine, he heard over and over the gibing, malicious words of a girl's sore heart: "Mind the doctor doesn't cut you out in your absence!"

He seemed to be gibing rather at a blow that had glanced aside.

It was as if he had caught a glimpse of the monster gibing at his elbow, goading him, goading them, both.

" He was still quivering with anger, yet because of that gibing devil at his elbow he strove to speak temperately, strove to hold back the raging flood of fierce resentment that threatened to overwhelm him.

Besides," again the gibing note was in his voice, "you'll get along much better without me.

" Piers laughed again, a bitter, gibing laugh.

We soak our children in habits of contempt and exultant gibing, and yet are confident thatas Clarissa one day said to me"We can always teach them to be reverent in the right place, you know."

Yet I ought not, even in a distant land, to fling an idle gibe against a gentleman of whom I really know nothing, except that the people under his charge bear all possible tokens of being tended and cared for as sedulously as if each of them sat by a warm fireside of his own, with a daughter bustling round the hearth to make ready his porridge and his titbits.

And oftentimes would they be giggling and leering, But 'twas all one to Tom their gibing and jeering; For loving or liking he little did care, For this waterman ne'er was in want of a fare.

In order to prevent such disasters for the future, my patron ordered a carpenter to build a little state room or cabin in the middle of the long-boat, with a place behind it to steer and hale home the main-sheet, with other conveniences to keep him from the weather, as also lockers to put in all manner of provisions, with a handsome shoulder of mutton sail, gibing over the cabin.

The odd thing is that under all her gibing the author seems to have a queer furtive admiration for her precious Ministry of Brains.

One is justified in wondering whether the public menstatesmen, soldiers, bishops, preachers, journalistswho indulge in this gibe, are really unable to distinguish between the plea that a thing is unwise, foolish, and the plea that it is impossible; whether they really suppose that anyone in our time could argue that human folly is impossible, or an "illusion."

But what we criticise is the persistent effort to discredit honest attempts at a better understanding of the facts of international relationship, the everlasting gibe which it is thought necessary to fling at any constructive effort, apart from armament, to make peace secure.

It was remorse that he feared might bring her to his feet, the discovery that while she had been gibing at him he had been a heroic figure, suffering in silence, eating his heart for love of her.

But in a very few minutes he scorned himself, and was possessed by a pensive wonder that one so tragically fated as he could resent an old man's gibe.

No doubt there would be gibing at White's, and shrugging at Almack's; but a fico, too, for thatit would not hurt him at Guadeloupe, and little at Genoa.

This gibe suddenly roused the temper of the other participant in the debate.

"You are not gibing, I suppose?

it does not sound like your gibing voice!"

"My gibing voice is packed away at the bottom of my imperial.

The wife and child of Alphingham flitted like mocking phantoms before her eyes, and the countenance of Alphingham himself glared at her, and his gibing laugh seemed to scream in her ears, and transform him into a malignant fiend revelling in the misery he had created.

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!

That single glimpse she had had, past the gibing devil in his eyes, deep into the man himself, had told her something different.