Some of the passers-by stopped to hear what the joke was, and surrounded me with once more a circle of mockers.

Ther will be found an other manner & sort of people, who will make no accoumpte at all to mocke at this matter: as indeede the world is ful of mockers, and men without Godlines, without God, and without religion.

'[Greek] (scoffers, or mockers), St. Peter termeth them, who walk according to their own lusts; who not being willing to practise, are ready to deride virtue; thereby striving to seduce others into their pernicious courses.

I fear that tribe of mockers who topers' ways impeach, Will part with their religion the tavern's goal to reach.

He wore it secretly at first, but was moved at length to display it to a few chosen friends; not wisely chosen, it would appear, for now there were mockers of Billy among the irreverent of the town.

And what grieved me most was to see my kinswoman Byrrhena and my host Milo among my mockers.

Honest Jacques Colis has bethought him to get the start of his story, but, my life on it, though he is active enough in getting away from his mockers, that he finds it, with all the additions, safely housed at the inn at Turin when he reaches that city himself.

"Ladies and gentlemen," he said to the mockers in a wavering voice, "I will now present to you the concluding item of my entertainment.

CHAPTER XI MOCKERS AND SCOLDERS Sage ThrasherMockingbirdCatbirdBrown ThrasherRock WrenHouse WrenLong-billed Marsh Wren.

"No, no, Uncle Roy, neither; the children's mothers threw the sticks at the Mockers.

" "What else did Mammy Bun tell you?" "Lots and lots of things, and a song, too, that her people used to sing about the Mockers, only I can't tell it as she does because you know she has a sort of language all her own.

Massa Branscomehe were a mighty fine man and your gran'dad, Miss Olivehe say he wouldn't have no puss'n to rob de nests o' Mockers, not anywheres on his 'states.

"Now lots o' coon darkies dey uster steal de youn' Mockers jes' afore dey lef' de nest and sell 'em to white trash dat

And I'se hear tell dat dere ain't any sech birds in oder countries, and dat de kings and queens jes' gib dere gold crowns offen dere heads t' have a cage o' Mockers.

Mockers don' nes' in de woods and wild places, dey allus keeps roun' de plantations near where folks libs.

"He know'd he war doin' wrong and he felt mighty uncomfoh'ble; but he done took de youn' Mockers on our plantation right under massa's nose.

When he got de banjo 'bout paid foh, dat time he took a whole nes'ful to onc't an' de birds what it b'longed to saw what he war a-doin' an' gib him a piece o' dere mind, an' folled him 'round all day an' sat on de roof ob his quarters an' talked all night, 'an tole him to bring back dem Mockers or dey'd tell; an' Sambo war skeered an' wanted to put de birds back an' den he didn't like to.

an' tole Sambo he done took Mockers an' ask him what had he done wid all on 'em.

"Dey uster have a song 'bout de Mockers roun' de cabins, an' a dance went wid it, 'cause it was a berry long song; but aftah dat Sambo done change it some when he uster sing it.

I speak of this Marsh Wren now so that you may remember it with the rest of this family of Mockers and Scolders.

Desor has remarked that no animal voluntarily imitates an action performed by man, until, in the ascending scale, we come to monkeys, which are well known to be ridiculous mockers.

The word and sound are omnipresent masks and mockers.

" "Do go on thinking aloud a little," I said; "it is most interesting!" "Ah," he said, "with the flatterers were busy mockers!

[The text is here mutilated: Hasisadra is ordered to threaten the mockers with Ea's vengeance.

Let me confess that I also was, for many years, amongst the mockers, and sincerely held such "theorists" and "dreamers" as Sir Samuel Romilly and his fellow-workers in utter contempt.