"There is a sardonic imp inside me that makes me jeer at the commoner tricks of the tradeand yet when I am practising that trade, when I am writing of those tender-hearted, brave and gracious men and women, and of those dear old darkies, I very often write with tears in my eyes.

The papers would jeer at us if we charged him with murder and then dropped the charge.

There was no little fellow but had his jeer and joke at Dobbin; and he bore everything quite patiently, and was entirely dumb and miserable.

The merry World did on a day With his train-bands and mates agree To meet together where I lay, And all in sport to jeer at me.

Or those in which sincere religion has swayed life to its stern and gracious laws, those in which parents and children have walked together to the House of God, and knelt together at His altar, and rejoiced together in His service? I tell you, my brother-men, it has become too much the fashion in these latter days to sneer and jeer at the old-fashioned ways of the old-fashioned American household.

he would jeer to himself.

The fowls laugh and jeer at him.]

Although it may be I have broken my heart because of thisat any rate I know that I am acting according to law; no one will dare to look me in the face and jeer.

Sime flung a jeer from the top of the canoe, the women snickered in his face, cries of derision rose in his wake, but he took no notice, pressing onward to the house of Scundoo.

Of what use is it to dethrone kings and by what right do we jeer at those who die for their masters, if it is only to put tyrannic entities in their places, which we adorn with their tinsel?

He looked over at his partner and, seeing that that gentleman was gravely busy, reopened the matter with a jeer.

But he hears the surging waves without, The heartless jeer, and the wild, wild shout: The ceaseless clamor, the cruel strife Make the Poet weary of life; And tears of pity and tears of pain Ebb and flow in every strain, As he soothes his heart with singing.

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

If he remained in Russia, his mother sneered and showed hatred to him; if he journeyed in Western Europe, crowds gathered about his coach to jeer at his ugliness.

'I'd give a finger to be on deck,' said Ken to Roy, and for once Roy did not jeer.

He was talking his nonsense against religion, and I said something, and he implied I wasn't as straight in business as I should bequoted something about 'He that hasteth to be rich shall not be innocent,' and one thing led to another, and finally he said, with that ugly jeer of his: 'You pious bandits are lucky to have a forgiving God to go to.

"Spent all his money!" came a barbed jeer from the Merle twin.

Knowing her husband to be weak from age and sorrow, she could still jeer at him because he was not abnormally strong; and though her intercourse with his sons and their families was now scanty and infrequent, still by a word here and a line there she could make her reproaches felt by them all.

Pym encouraged his friends to jeer at Tommy's want of interest in the sex, thinking it a way of goading him to action.

When the six sons of the elder wife grew up, they used to jeer at their mongoose brother and his mother, so the Raja sent his second wife to live in a separate house.

Because of this he used to jeer at his other brothers who were not so well off.

They were keenly felt by the officers of the army; and they furnished an excuse for those who wished to jeer at regular troops, and exalt the militia.

The following description gives some faint idea of one of the most diabolical crimes ever committed in the Philippines: "Villa's cruelty and sanguinary jeering grew without let or hindrance from day to day; it seemed that this hyena continually cudgelled his brains to invent new kinds of torture and to jeer at the friars.

But do not think I jibe or jeer

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