And let our Ship of State to harbor sweep, Her ports all up, her battle-lanterns lit, And her leashed thunders gathering for their leap!" So said I, with clenched hands and passionate pain, Thinking of dear ones by Potomac's side: Again the loon laughed, mocking; and again The echoes bayed far down the night, and died, While waking I recalled my wandering brain.

" I could stand his mocking no longer.

Kate began to grow mocking and derisive; she teased me from morning till night, and the more she teased me, the more I adored her.

Even then, I seemed to hear that mocking, suggestive laughter; but this, I knew, must be my imagination.

If one goes on saying "mocking," or "cynical," or "ironical," or "quizzical," it gives no impression of what it is.

"But I would die," said she,"and more,I will bear your mocking and your hisses!"

When he opened them they rested on the alder-twig, a couple of yards above, holding out mocking finger-tips, and he turned his head in the snow till again he could see the mock-suns looking down.

We know that very many religious men are bad logicians: if I am as puzzle-headed a fool as Mr. Rogers would make people think me, how does that justify his mocking at my religion?

He put to flight the dilettante (Who hadn't finished half the andante), But feared the servants' mockings Should they see him in his stockings, Racing along the corridor: Not that he thought it horrid, or Harsh to transfix him with a dagger, (He could not bear the fiddler's swagger), But felt quite sure so droll a figure Would make his rude domestics snigger.

Well, sirrah, leave your mocking, you were best, I'll bob your beetle head, and if you mock him. BLO.

Let you quit mocking and making a sport of me!

And then I shivered a little as I recalled that mocking and ironic laughter.

This, which is a fact, rather sobered some of them at first; but they soon resumed their mocking at the poor little rabbit and his story, and, as they were in the majority, the council refused to do anything in the matter.

Then there rang through the wide deserted halls and chambers a shrill despairing shriek, whilst far and near, above, below, around, rose mocking and insulting laughter.

Resentment was soon replaced by interest, and interest by attraction; until Louis, before he was aware of it, began to find the society of the impish, mocking, defiant maid from the convent more to his taste than that of the most fascinating women of his Court.

In some way he was in the hands of some onethese are the indefinite threads that I gathereda mocking, jeering, smiling someone whom he hated, but from whom he could not free himself.