To common sense the alchemist's dream of transmuting lead into gold seems preposterous, yet in a hundred laboratories radium is breaking down into helium, and the new chemistry bids fair to turn the time-honored jeer at the alchemists completely upside down.

Beltane's voice was soft, yet, meeting the calm serenity of his gaze, Sir Pertolepe checked the jeer upon his lip and stared upon Beltane as one new-waked; beheld in turn his high and noble look, the costly excellence of his armour, his great sword and belt of silver and strode on thereafter with never a word, yet viewing Beltane aslance 'neath brows close-knit in dark perplexity.

Monk queried, studiously eliminating from his tone the jeer implied by the words alone.

We were four hours late, but we scalded ourselves with a second cup of coffee and tried for the six-o'clock train for Naples, missed it, sent a telegram to Cook to send our letters to the train to meet us, and then went back to the ship to endure with patience and commendable fortitude the jeers of our fellow-passengers.

Each great inventor, after solving problems in mechanics or chemistry, had to face the jeers of the incredulous.

The old man, for years autocrat of the village, bows to the will of his youngest child, fearing the jeers of relatives, yet unable to withstand.

Sime flung a jeer from the top of the canoe, the women snickered in his face, cries of derision rose in his wake, but he took no notice, pressing onward to the house of Scundoo.

Lepailleur regarded the creation of Chantebled as a personal insult, for he had not forgotten his jeers and challenges with respect to those moorlands, from which, in his opinion, one would never reap anything but stones.

Amazed stands Izdubar above his seer, Nor hears the screams, nor the fierce dalkhi's jeer; Beneath the flashing lightnings he soon found The cave, and lays the seer upon the ground.

For two summers the women maintained that playground, holding their faith against the opposition of the janitors, the jeers of the newspapers, and the constant hostility of tax-payers, who protested against the "ruin of school property."

She and Timothy Derby, ignoring the jeers of their friends, were deep in two white and gold volumes of poetry.

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.

Why isn't being away the same thing as being away?" At any other time this somewhat involved statement of conditions would have provoked jeers from the company.

Saint X's set of gods of conventionality doubtless seems ridiculous to those who knock the dust before some other set; but Saint X cannot be blamed for having a sober face before its own altars, and reserving its jeers and pitying smiles for deities of conventionality in high dread and awe elsewhere.

I could not resist the jeer.

Does he dare blow into it and risk our jeers if it is dumb?

If one must bitter weep No man will see his tears, If sadly bowed his head None save the partridge jeers.

When Hector's lovely widow shines in tears, Or Rowe's gay rake dependent virtue jeers, With the same cast of features he is seen To chide the libertine and court the queen.

"Above the harps and angel's songs I hear, The demon's laugh, and taunting jeer; Oh, comrade!

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.

Then he suddenly understood that this was a quaint double jest of the eccentric physician'shis grim fling at his lack of physical charm, his ironic jeer at the superstitions of Saint X. "There!" said Schulze, looking up.