" "Demi-gods don't play football," jeered Dan.

What have I done, or what haven't I done?" "Search your conscience," jeered Jetson.

They had jeered at his riding-breeches, at his bob-tailed cob, at his English accent, and Thorpe had suffered them gladly.

At Mazas the under-jailors jeered at Thiers, Nadaud reprimanded them severely.

the man jeered.

Full oft his wrath was roused to such a point He could not hold his peace; even to the King He jeered one day at visionary knights.

The town mob had come across the Senior Proctor, the Rev. Thomas Tozer; and while Old Towzer, as he was called, was trying to assert his proctorial authority over them, they had jeered him, and torn his clothes, and bespattered him with mud.

The Pharisees jeered and made game of them, on account of the admiration they had formerly expressed for Jesus.

" "Nonsense," jeered his sister.

jeered Al, from the doorway.

jeered Howard, with an ugly gleam in his eye.

I asked him about my oxen, and he leered and jeered and joked with drunken cunning, but said nothing more.

Conrad Lagrange jeered and mocked, offered sneering advice or sarcastic compliment; and, under it all, was keenly watchful and sympathetic understanding better than the artist himself, perhaps, the secret of the painter's hesitation.

"He's afraid to bet," jeered the daughter.

"They jabbered something at me, and the man that broke the egg jeered.

She taunted him with his appetite, jeered at him for his recent and marvellous conversion to respectability, dared him to make love to her, provoked him at last to abandon his plate and rise and start toward her.

Warren's matchless brigade followed; but the 6th Lancers had seen service and they were not jeered; nor were the 5th and 10th Zouaves, the 1st Connecticut Heavy Artillery and the Rhode Island Battery.

At the end of the two days the Frenchman came in person to the walls to hear the answer to his proposition; whereupon Boon jeered at him for his simplicity, thanking him in the name of the defenders for having given them time to prepare for defence, and telling him that now they laughed at his attack.

How often have I passed unhappy quarters of an hour screwing up my courage to find fault with some subordinate whom my duty compelled me to reprove, and how often have I jeered at myself for a fraud as the doughty platform combatant, when shrinking from blaming some lad or lass for doing their work badly!

"Hae ye no heard o' Catrine Montour?" he jeered.

Allan Morris had spoken of a mocking person who jeered and smiled.

It is said, that when Waller jeered him on his using the peculiar phraseology of the Puritans in his conversation with them, the Protector answered, "Cousin Waller, I must talk to these men in their own way;" an anecdote which is sometimes quoted as if it proved that Cromwell had no religion; whereas it only proved that he had at heart no cant.

Antonsen jeered at the grip, and toward morning began to abuse it; but Churchill vouchsafed no explanations.

It made him sick to think how they must have laughed and jeered at him when he was gone.

My sister- in-law wellnigh had a fit every time she looked at him when I was there before, and I found, moreover, that even when I was at hand, the servants jeered at the poor blackamoor, gave him his meals apart, and only the refuse of their own, so that he would fare but ill if I left him to their mercy.