"And thatthat was the end of the fellows who went by jeering at us!"

Is he afraid?" The men of the Indefatigable returned these compliments with jeers of their own.

"Old Figs" grew to be a name of kindness and endearment, and the sneak of an usher jeered at him no longer.

Havelock and a few companions at Charterhouse met together for devotion, and of course came in for a large amount of jeering from some of the other boys.

he said, a faint note of jeering in his voice.

he would jeer to himself.

Along the street in front of him many children followed and jeered in the wake of a man who slouched some distance ahead of them.

Trees were stiff with frost; the wind whistled and jeered through them and about sharp crags, filling the crisp air with eerie, shuddersome music.

Come away, sister; we shall be jeered to death else.

Louis XII. is reported to have jeered among his courtiers at the notion of a high-priest riding to the wars.

And it is perhaps forgivable if those who, like Jules Verne, saw all these increments in speed, motor-cars, and airships aeroplanes, and submarines, wireless telegraphy and what not, as plain and necessary deductions from the promises of physical science, should turn upon a world that read and doubted and jeered with "I told you so.

The Liberal Press had jeered at the hair-raising fears of the Conservative Press, and the latter had answered the jeers by more ferocious attacks upon German diplomacy and by more determined efforts to make bad blood between the two nations.

And he's a wonder with the men, jollies 'em along when they are grousing or homesick, sets 'em grinning from ear to ear when they are down-hearted, has a pat on the shoulder for this one and a jeer for that one.

Though this man was not near enough for her to see the dancing evil of his little eyes, she saw the brutish face in full relief against the sky, and marked the jeer on the ugly mouth.

A laugh, rather jeering than cordial, ran through the group of labourers.

"He said it was Morris who left first and whom Hume pursued by jeers through the open window.