24 Verbs to Use for the Word gibing

You love us not in England, and one who settles there will often have occasion to hear gibes and sneers on the land from which she came" "Good God, Mr. Effingham, you do not think I shall take my wife into society where" "Bear with a proser's doubts, Templemore.

We could but utter coarse gibes and exclaim, "What could have induced him to paint such things?

For once Parliament repelled the gibe of its critics that it has ceased to represent the people.

To Rudolph Musgrave it seemed afterward that he had dreamed them away in some vague Lotus Landin a delectable country where, he remembered, there were always purple eyes that mocked you, and red lips that coaxed you now, and now cast gibes at you.

He was confident but secretive, serene but furtive, as one who has endured gibes for the sake of one brilliant coup.

" The old lady rather enjoyed the gibe: "My dear, I can trust you never to give any one an overdose of it.

Yet I ought not, even in a distant land, to fling an idle gibe against a gentleman of whom I really know nothing, except that the people under his charge bear all possible tokens of being tended and cared for as sedulously as if each of them sat by a warm fireside of his own, with a daughter bustling round the hearth to make ready his porridge and his titbits.

His dark eyes flung a gibe with the words.

He's a go-getter, Tom is. Y'betcha!" Jessie's heart was singing too, but she could not forbear a friendly gibe at him.

The peasant's toe did gall the courtier's gibe.

He pulled the rude shallop to her feet and they got in and went on, Jack not heeding her gibe.

ed. Bekker) reports this brutal gibe of Nero's; Rubellius Plautus was the luckless victim:[Greek: "ho de dae Neron kai gelota kai skommata, ta ton syngenon kaka hepoieito ton goun Plauton apokteinas, hepeita taen kephalaen autou prosenechtheisan

Yet you have now, in this article that you offer me, reproduced the same stale gibes.

But in a very few minutes he scorned himself, and was possessed by a pensive wonder that one so tragically fated as he could resent an old man's gibe.

Even that terror of the village, Mother Darkmans, saved her bitterest gibes for others; and the village maiden, as she curtseyed by him, stole a glance at his handsome but melancholy countenance, and told her sweetheart she was certain the poor scholar had been crossed in love.

They laughed, or shouted out a gibe, or what was still more wonderful, went on with a complete unaffected indifference, as if all this was natural.

All these gibes and reproaches we ought to have been spared.

Hal saw a way of stopping her gibes and proving his good intentions toward Hunter all in a breath.

And oftentimes would they be giggling and leering, But 'twas all one to Tom their gibing and jeering; For loving or liking he little did care, For this waterman ne'er was in want of a fare.

Neither was it of service to our poet's reputation, who had, on this occasion, to undergo the gibes of angry musicians, as well as the reproaches of disappointed actors and hostile poets.

It was to them he attributed the whispered gibes about his illiteracy; his shady business methods; the awful story of his handiwork in the ruin of Richard Perley, the spendthrift brother of the Misses Perley.

"Go to!" cried he, "art young and all unlearned as yetheed not my gibes and quirks, 'tis ever so my custom when steel is ringing, and mark me, I do think it a good custom, as apt to put a man off his ward and flurry him in his stroke.

Else hadst thou not been patient, borne their gibes So long, even until now! MEDEA.

You will carry your gibes too far with me some day.

24 Verbs to Use for the Word  gibing