He shook his head slowly as he looked at me, his eyes, all circled with deep lines, looking out of caves of anguish and anxiety; and then I remembered how he had said, and I had scoffed at him, that the way he sought was one he did not know.

Still, I feel that, whatever one's country may be, the love of it has value and is not to be scoffed at.

Some scoffed at him with hellish mockery, And laughed so loud it seemed that the smooth sea Did from some distant region echo us.

For a moment there was a lull, only some vague talk of "guaranties," asserted, scoffed at and denied, for the ordinary business of the country was in arrears, and the Coronation, with all its pomp of circumstance and power, all its medieval splendor and appeal to history and sentiment, turned people's thoughts elsewhere.

men scoffed at it as new; a Clinton, Duke of Newcastle; a Percy, Duke and heir of Northumberland, that name of high romance; a De Burgh, Marquis of Clanricarde; a Lindsay, Earl of Crawford, twenty-sixth Earl, and head of a house which for eight centuries has stood on the steps of thrones; a Courtenay, Earl of Devon; an Erskine, Earl of Mar, an earldom whose origin is lost in the mists of antiquity, and many another.

" "Rotate it?" scoffed the Sniffer President.

They remind me, too, Of martyred Dorothea, Who from celestial gardens sent Flowers as her witnesses To him who scoffed and doubted.

" "It would take our Government a year to make up their minds what to do," White scoffed, "and by that time these fellows would have sold out and be on to something else.

"In my blackest moments I should have scoffed at the idea," she replied.

His scruples were scoffed at, and he was shamelessly flouted by some borrowers whom he offended.

The Bedouin hordes scoffed at the exhortation, and forthwith slew the whole company except one, who managed to escape to Medina with the tale.

For when virtue came from heaven (as the poet feigns) rich men kicked her up, wicked men abhorred her, courtiers scoffed at her, citizens hated her, and that she was thrust out of doors in every place, she came at last to her sister Poverty, where she had found good entertainment.

Langdon scoffed at the idea.

" "All!" scoffed Jot, "Go on with the rest of it, Kent Eddy!" "Isn't any 'rest,'" grunted Kent, "unless you count the organ-grinder; he had some-looked as if he'd rested.

Don't you think he LOOKS kind of pale-ish?" "Pale-ish!" scoffed Kent.

I don't wonder they are furious!" "A white wild goose?" scoffed Daylight.

To be nameless in society, with no future, repulsed, despised, scoffed at by all!

He never ceased to marvel at the amazing fact that he, poor, scoffed at or pitied, surrounded by difficulties of every sort, should have been chosen to wrest the palm from the hands of trained scientists of two continents.

Though the majority of the colored students scoffed at the idea of preparing for work in Liberia their education for service in the United States was not encouraged.

"Backs short?" scoffed Corson, "Why, lady look for yourself!"

" "Wayne," scoffed Kate, "plumbing indeed!

But she was not equal to being scoffed at, she who had been so embarrassedand betrayed.

" "Oh, do they?" scoffed Mrs. Leonard.

It was scoffingcontemptuousbut she could not tell at what it scoffed.

These advanced Unitarians were scoffed and sneered at for deserting the simple tabernacle of their ancestors, and one which was associated with the revered name of Dr. Priestley.