We deserve the humiliation and have well earned the mockery.

What mockery, to talk of pecuniary intercourse between a slave and his master!

This provoked Galileo, and led him to attack authority with still greater vehemence, adding mockery to sarcasm; which again exasperated his opponents, and doubtless laid the foundation of that personal hostility which afterwards pursued him to the prison of the Inquisition.

"Why should my smile mean mockery?" "Adelheid!naythis never can be.

On the other side of the Atlantic Ocean, in lieu of the Christmas carols, the cannon had rung its brazen Christmas message across the trenches, making mockery of the words: "On earth peace, good will toward men."

" "Hoo-ray for Jot!" finished Kent, generously forgetting mockeries.

* NOTE BY THE ARTIST The outward ceremonial of the hastily convoked and Irregular tribunal before which Jesus underwent the mockery of a trial was similar to that of the ancient Sanhedrim.

Anglice possessed the wild, strange beauty of her mother,the bending, willowy form, the rich tint of skin, the large tropical eyes, that had almost made Antoine's sacred robes a mockery to him.

She bestows brave and beautiful things of her own, working in the dark, until the hour of his test, as those fine straws of the Tropics are woven under water" "And what mockery to find," she finished coldly, "after you have woven and woven, that the fabric finally brought to light is streaky and imperfect.

"I beheld the thousand mockeries, and chief among them the mockery of our eternal mystery.

Let vacant bards display their boasted woes; Shall I the mockery of grief display?

" To complete the mockery of his last days, fashion declined to interest itself in his concert, and, to keep even the common public away, the skies poured down floods of rain.

and why they did not tear down and demolish that mockery, which was scarcely strong enough to impede the progress of women and children; that the enemy, who were skulking behind their baggage, were, in fact, captured and in their hands."

He was not used to honorary epithets such as this, and he searched the face of the proprietor carefully to detect mockery.

Ay, the very corn my horses were eating (what mockery to keep them at all!) was now furnished by another, and must eventually be paid for, with interest.

The last words boomed from him in a slogan of triumph and as if in echoing mockery there came from the open door the chuckling, mirthless laugh of Obadiah Price.

Thus they both had submitted to the ceremony of breakfast, but when the hour of dinner approached they could neither endure the mockery.

He tells us that they died suddenly, and violently, and in madness; but nothing can exceed the bitter mockery with which he records the loathsome disease, and "death by rottenness," of the fierce and cruel governor.

She saw that he was deep in thoughtabout her, she assumed, with an unconscious vanity which would have excited the mockery of many who have more vanity than had she, and perhaps with less excuse.

That men of years, and of consular dignity, should not be ashamed to exhibit such mockery of religion in the face of day!

I saw her on the stairway at the Armstrongs’; I heard her low, soft laughter, I felt the mockery of her voice and eyes!

When it happens that a husband wishes to recover his wife, whom he had divorced in a passion, a convenient husband is sought; but the law forbids a mockery being made of such marriages.

"I shall depend on being invited to your wedding, then, and yours, too, Miss Ruth," added Randal, shaking hands with "the little baggage," as if he had quite forgiven her mockery and forgotten his own brief lapse into sentiment.

The shining majesty of him that smites And slays you with a smile Upon his silvery lips, of glinting mockery.

I consider them "holler mockeries.