So she had made mock of them, the two men nearest to her, for all the world to laugh at!

Kangaroo : Rag-u-ar. Kangaroo-skin : Lan-num-mock.

I used to mock him when I was a little girl.

I've wondered awfully what made you so indifferent," but now she kept this reflection to herself and merely said, "What in the world did you fancy was 'forbidding' you?" "Honor!" said Morrison, with a note of mock solemnity.

The spirit of slavery raves under tormenting gnawings, and casts about in blind phrenzy for something to ease, or even to mock them.

He had a quick mental picture of himself out on the dead spruce, performing a bit of mock-heroism by dragging in a half-drowned colt by one ear.

O Guta! dost thou mock my widowed love?

'You mock your servant,' said the strange visiter; 'but if aught is known to Dannischemend which can avail Herman, his instructions shall be as those of a father to a son.'

You have only to watch them at their mock fights and games, their storming parties and scaling parties.

A sort of mock proclamation is then made in doggerel verse at the door of all the alehouses in the parish, or wapentake, as follows: "It is neither for your sake nor my sake That I ride stang;

Down the narrow path she went ponderously, showing me the cannas, jasmine and rose, picking a lime or a tamarind, a bouquet of mock-orange flowers, smoothing the tuberoses, the hibiscus of many colors, the oleanders, maile ilima, Star of Bethlehem, frangipani, and, her greatest love, the tiare Tahiti.

" The Frenchman threw his arms around the door in mock horror.

You forget that, all this time, I am as ignorant of your own adventures as is his Majesty's prime minister of navigation Why do I see you, here, a visitor from a royal cruiser, when I thought you were playing the mock pirate?

Pale fire-flies pulsed within the meadow mist Their halos, wavering thistle-downs of light; The loon, that seemed to mock some goblin tryst, Laughed; and the echoes, huddling in affright, Like Odin's hounds, fled baying down the night.

"Rough are the steps, slow-hewn in flintiest rock, States climb to power by; slippery those with gold Down which they stumble to eternal mock: No chafferer's hand shall long the sceptre hold,

But, imposing as the sight of the wild huntsmen of the Pampas might have been, Dick could not help laughing at the mock sublimity of his situation, as he tried his first experiment on an unhappy milky mother who had strayed from her herd and was wandering disconsolately along the road, laying the dust, as she went, with thready streams from her swollen, swinging udders.

To prove they could rebel, and rail, and mock, Much to the credit of the chosen flock; A strong authority which must convince, 380 That saints own no allegiance to their prince; As 'tis a leading-card to make a whore, To prove her mother had turn'd up before.

Beyond the house where their mock trial had taken place was a vineyard surrounded by a stone wall.

Let them come with us; it is too late to turn back, unless," he added, with a ring of mock humility in his tone, "you have changed your mind and wish time to think.

Two minutes later, a swarm of armed men forsook the mock charity ball and sallied forth to engage in realities.

will;but do not mock the bondman in his misery, by giving him a Bible when he cannot read it.

Our goods were disposed of on the premises, and the neighbours arranged a mock sale, at which the bailiff winked.

It was bad to see in the heat of fight; but now in the cold morning, with no cheer or drum-tap or bugle blare, all the glory had gone out of it, and it was just one huge butcher's shop, where poor devils had been ripped and burst and smashed, as though we had tried to make a mock of God's i

What an oilcan you turned out to be; the mock song.

#railler#, make fun, mock; p.73, l.25, laugh.