"Jeering" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... the bottled grape My errant fancy fondly turns, Remember, jeering jackanape, I err in ...
— Tobogganing On Parnassus • Franklin P. Adams
... side by side, so that they formed one long radius. A Little Russian in a long waistcoat and full trousers was walking beside them, cracking a whip and shouting in a tone that sounded as though he were jeering at the horses and showing off his ...
— The Schoolmistress and Other Stories • Anton Chekhov
... of the Hollanders and Zeelanders, who were keeping close watch on the outside. But those Hollanders and Zeelanders, guarding every outlet to the ocean, occupying every hole and cranny of the coast, laughed the invaders of England to scorn, braving them, jeering them, daring them to come forth, while the Walloons and Spaniards shrank before such amphibious assailants, to whom a combat on the water was as natural as upon dry land. Alexander, upon one occasion, transported with rage, selected a band of ...
— The Rise of the Dutch Republic, 1555-1566 • John Lothrop Motley
... was dressing I had a call from the cowardly Alfani-Celi; I received him with a jeering smile, saying that ...
— The Memoires of Casanova, Complete • Jacques Casanova de Seingalt
... the frost is sometimes shrewd even in a California winter. We had no blankets in the dungeons. Please know that it is very cold to stretch bruised human flesh on frosty stone. In the end they did give us water. Jeering and cursing us, the guards ran in the fire-hoses and played the fierce streams on us, dungeon by dungeon, hour after hour, until our bruised flesh was battered all anew by the violence with which the water smote us, until we stood knee-deep ...
— The Jacket (The Star-Rover) • Jack London
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