I'll tell thee what, Prince: a college of wit-crackers cannot flout me out of my humour.
In brief, since I do purpose to marry, I will think nothing to any purpose that the world can say against it; and therefore never flout at me for what I have said against it; for man is a giddy thing, and this is my conclusion.
I measure him,' says she, 'by my own spirit; for I should flout him if he writ to me.
Ere you flout old ends any further, examine your conscience.
O, she tore the letter into a thousand halfpence, rail'd at herself that she should be so immodest to write to one that she knew would flout her.
Be thou soft-hearted an thou wilt, but spare To flout my sternness and my strong resolve.
Foul spirits riding the wind doflout at him friendless, The rain and the storm on his head beat ever at will; His weird is on him to grope in the dark with endless Weariful feet for a goal that shifteth still.
In brief, since I do purpose to marry, I will think nothing to any purpose that the world can say against it; and therefore never flout at me for what I have said against it; for man 105 is a giddy thing, and this is my conclusion.
I'll tell thee what, prince; a college of wit-crackers cannot flout me out of my humour.
The body of your discourse is sometime guarded with fragments, and the guards 245 are but slightly basted on neither: ere you flout old ends any further, examine your conscience: and so I leave you.
Your attitude, I warn you, will work wretchedness to you both; you will accuse and flout him.
Dehra must be of the American's succession, when one of her Household would venture toflout Ferdinand of Lotzen to his face.
It was, in truth, the first faint frown of his Goddess, but Lotzen was too good a gambler to flout her at the loss of a single turn.
Cause she that wont to flout and rail, At last gave proof of woman's ways; She did, in sooth, display the heart That might have wrought thee greater smart.
The Rise of the Netherlands The case of Holland is one of those which at first sight seem to flout the sociological maxim that civilisations flourish in virtue partly of natural advantages and partly of psychological pressures.
Certain patriots of the wilful sort are wont to flout reason in these matters, blustering of "false cosmopolitanism" and "salutary prejudice.
Surely you realize that he is a friend--and friends are not so common that we can afford to floutthem at every turn.
And while so it is, fear not thou his kin will ever be so poor in spirit, as come where the likes of you can flout their dole.
Flout me not, but prithee go forward and get me what is my own, my sole joy in the world.
Oh, flout me not, and show your ill nature before the very soldier.
Was this what she had learned at school--to flout the standards of her home?
It was left to his daughter to flout tradition, and by some obscure process of local reasoning, bring discredit to her dead father by painting her waggons yellow instead of blue.
She felt that peace would flout them so long as the barge lay ready to play ferry-boat to any casual intruder.
I am going to leave you," she persisted, "so you must not flout me, Pelleas.
Then flout full high to their parent sky those circled stars of ours, Where'er the dark-hulled foeman floats, where'er his emblem towers!
He sought Yellow Rufe, but Dolores had seen all she needed to apprise her that this was a concerted attempt to flout her authority.
I see among ye men of troubled minds, who are not yet disposed to floutmy authority.
By so many breaths that ye flout me, by just so many torments shall I have ye torn.
And when the men of the Fair saw that Premium was gone, and that Stagman had fled as Discount drew nigh, they seized upon Scapegrace, and began to flout him, at first with fair words and pretences, but at last more rudely and openly.
There is always a scum of villains there on the outlook to decoy strangers, and, if they will not consent to be cheated, to flout and mock them with gibes and scurril jests.
When I see the gods to hurl thunderbolts upon those who flout them, it will be time enough for us mortals to assume the robes of judgment.
I love not the Christians, nor any who flout the gods and their worship--that thou knowest well.
No man dare face and floutthat lady, whose husband also is utterly subjected.
If you flout me once too often I may go after you, as a Mohawk follows a scalp too often flaunted by the head that wears it!
No pause, nor rest, save where the streams That feed the Kansas run, Save where our Pilgrim gonfalon Shall flout the setting sun.
The hills have bonfires; in our streets Flags flout us in our faces; The newsboys, peddling off their sheets, Are hoarse with our disgraces.
And, indeed, I was prepared to flout it, as in our highest and our lowest moments we often are.
There can be no sort of doubt that unless I was prepared to flout the wisdom of the ages, I ought to have refused his suggestion.
