2762 examples of mocking in sentences

The dreaming mocking eyes that see you through, The eyes that smile and smile, With the heart-break all the while, Don't you love the eyes that come from Ireland? Don't you love the eyes that come from Ireland?

Don't you fear the light of heaven being struck from your eyes for mocking the poor dark man?" "Saints and angels, is there no protection against this?

The fox, though he wears a chain, runs as though he were free; mocking us (as it is a crafty beast), because we, having a lord and master to attend on, run about at our pleasures, like masterless men.

"I ain't," he denied, and went on, her mocking laughter ringing in his ears.

Whereat Yussuf Dakmar suddenly assumed a sneering tone of voice, saying that he preferred men for his part with spunk enough to do such work themselves, and there was an argument, they protesting and he mocking them, until at last this man, whose neck the glass cut, demanded of him whether he, Yussuf Dakmar, was not in truth an empty boaster who would flinch at bloodshed.

The smile didn't vanish; he had too much pluck and self-control for that; but you might say that iron entered into it, as if for a second he was mocking destiny, willing to face all odds alone since he couldn't have his friend.

The canary, among foreign birds, and the linnet and bobolink, among American birds, are familiar examples of the first class; the common robin and the veery of the second; the wood-thrush, the cat-bird, and the mocking-bird, of the third; and the blue-bird, the pewee, and the purple martin, of the fourth class.

"I should be miserable!I should notno, I could not live any longer!" "Alice," said Uncle John, his face losing its half-mocking smile with which he had been watching her eager countenance, "Alice, did you know that I had been married?

And when we were come there, she took me into the great hall, and made a very dainty and impudent bow, mocking me.

It seemed to him that they were mocking him, laughing at his powerlessness.

paraphrase, parody, take-off, lampoon, caricature &c 21. plagiarism; forgery, counterfeit &c (falsehood) 544; celluloid. imitator, echo, cuckoo^, parrot, ape, monkey, mocking bird, mime; copyist, copycat; plagiarist, pirate.

Now faint, now louder, it swelled and died away on the breeze, now fairly startling in its joyousness, now plaintive as the wind sighing among the reeds in some lonely spot after nightfall; alluring, thrilling, mocking by turns; elusive as the strains of fairy pipers; utterly ravishing in its sweetness.

Confused and bewildered, we beat about it and about it; it was behind us, before us, at our right, at our left,crying on in a blind, aimless way, making us no replies,beckoning us, slipping from us, mocking us utterly.

[Passing at the back, mocking.]

And everywhere the eye doth see processions of the dead, Till they seem but mocking phantoms, we watch unmoved and cold.

And with a mocking laugh Victorine bounded down the staircase and went into the kitchen.

It was at once defiant and alluring, tender and mocking, artless and mischievous.

"Pray don't let me detain you from the interesting ceremony, Miss Lane," he said, with his most cynical and mocking voice; "Miss Vernor as high-priestess will be worth a full audience.

For although he flouteth the Pope with his ceremonies, yet he neither hath confuted nor overcome him; no enemy is beaten nor overcome with mocking, jeering, and flouting.

The maiden's scream of terror was answered by mocking laughter from the water.

He suspected that his old friend and opponent, Death, with whom he fought an interminable campaign, was mocking him from ambush.

Though Johnson once acknowledged to Boswell, when in a placid humour, that happier days had come to him in his old age than in his early life, he would probably have added that though fame and friendship and freedom from the harrowing cares of poverty might cause his life to be more equably happy, yet their rewards could represent but a faint and mocking reflection of the best moments of a happy marriage.

The man made a mocking grimace, and glanced around the glade as if he were afraid of being overheard.

The two colours answered one another, fainter and fainter, away and away, to the end of one's sight, and there were two cuckoos, hidden in the dream, mocking each other in velvet voices.

Upon Titine, who brought her the cigarettes and a brazier, she created the impressionas she always did indoorsof a child, greatly overgrown, parading herself with mocking ostentation in the garments of maturity.

2762 examples of  mocking  in sentences