Then it was that the tired old Earth stopped thinking and began to feela thrilla throba pulsing of new lifethe stirring of new hopes which mocked its fears of cold or frost or sorrow or death.

They mocked one.

The minds of the two brothers eluded him, mocked him, slipped from beneath the slow grasp of his comprehension.

Others would doubtless have mocked at him, for he had as yet but reached that dim, quivering hour when inventors feel the gust of their discovery sweep over them, before the idea that they are revolving presents itself with full precision to their minds.

She has mocked me, an' others, more'n once.

the fall of Ocean's wall, Space mocked, and Time outrun!

"Absolutely and finally?" mocked Mr. Badger with a sweeping bow.

Law and order are mocked at, philosophy and religion disregarded, and of all the varied objects of human veneration so loudly acclaimed and loftily exalted by the generation that preceded the war, not one remains to command a wide allegiance.

Not yet was his society sought by the great world which he mocked and despised.

Of this there can be no doubt, that, whoever lays down such arbitrary rules as Johnson has here prescribed, will find himself mocked at every turn by the power of genius, which meets with nothing in art or nature that it cannot convert to its own use, and which delights to produce the greatest effects by means apparently the most inadequate.

Just so, we should be mocked at the apparent improbabilities.

" "From the drinker it taketh away strength," I mocked, "and to the man unweary

But when the folk of that place beheld what sort of a saddle was upon the back of the pack-horse; and when they beheld what sort of armor it was that Percival woreall woven of osier twigs; and when they beheld how he was armed with a javelin and with no other weapon, they mocked and laughed at him and jeered him.

So he laughed and nodded and gave them greeting who mocked him in that manner.

pp. of burlar, cheated, deceived, mocked, made sport of, destroyed.

They tried to kindle the inflammable jealousies of Nero's feeble mind by representing Seneca as attempting to rival him in poetry, and as claiming the entire credit of his eloquence, while he mocked his divine singing, and disparaged his accomplishments as a harper and charioteer because he himself was unable to acquire them.

We know that their preaching was to the Greeks "foolishness," and that, when they spoke of Jesus and the resurrection, their hearers mocked and jeered.

" Howells, when the doctor and the coroner had gone, excused himself with a humility that mocked the others: "With your permission I shall write in the library until dinner.

" Howells's straight smile mocked them.

"Good-evening, gentlemen, just go home without me," he cried to them, and mocked them.

He came up to the surface of the water and mocked at the Monkey, saying, "This is my home.

Otherwise it gives no "power"the clause is mere waste paper, and flouts in the face of a mocked and befooled legislature.

It was the coquette in her that had mocked and tantalized him, the coquette even whom he had kissedbut it was the woman who had struck and now suffered the pains of her imprudence.

"Do you want me to go, Philidor?" Her tone still mocked and he did not turn toward her.

It was when she mocked that Olga was most dangerous.