12 Verbs to Use for the Word scoff

But he hears the surging waves without, The atheist's scoff and the infidel's doubt, The Pharisee's cant and the sweet saint's prayer, And the piercing cry for rest from care; And tears of pity and tears of pain Ebb and flow in every strain, As he praises God with singing.

He had been active in Christian work, and had borne many a scoff and jeer from his companions when at Oxford for being "pious," as they termed it.

Nothing can kill an ass but cold: cold entertainment, discouraging scoffs, authorised disgraces, may kill a whole litter of young asses of them here at once, that hath travelled thus far in impudence, only in hope to sit a-sunning in your smiles.

In the most conspicuous position of the period, Lincoln drew upon himself the scoffs of polite society; but even then he filled the souls of mankind with utterances of wonderful beauty and grandeur.

What, can your grace endure these cursed scoffs? MARIUS.

It was those lives that drew for the child the alluring pictures of martyrdom, breathed into the girl the passion of devotion, sent the woman out to face scoff and odium, and drove her finally into the Theosophy that rationalises sacrifice, while opening up possibilities of service beside which all other hopes grow pale.

And Michael seemed gigantical, The Arch-fiend but a dwarf; And at the towers of Erebus Our striplings flung the scoff.

Harry found a small printer of Royalist opinions, and with the assistance of Jacob, strung together many doggerel verses, making a scoff of the sour-faced rulers of England, and calling upon the people not to submit to be tyrannized over by their own paid servants, the army.

Instead of comfort they threaten us, miscall, scoff at us, to aggravate our misery, give us bad language, or if they do give good words, what's that to relieve us?

When she should wake, and he let the light fall upon her face, he knewso he said to himselfhe knew the likeness would vanish in an appalling unlikeness, a mockery, a scoff of the whole night and its lovely dreamin a face which, if beautiful as that of an angel, not being Juliet's would be to him ugly, unnatural, a discord with the music of his memory.

To this modern Romans affixed their scoffs at persons or laws open to ridicule or censure.

[107] "Nasutus cis usque licet, sis denique nasus: Non potes in nugas dicere plura meas, Ipse ego quam dixi, &c." "Wert thou all scoffs and flouts, a very Momus, Than we ourselves, thou canst not say worse of us.

12 Verbs to Use for the Word  scoff