I think of it day and night, and I've not a gibe left under my belt!
Come, before he comes to gibe us for having heeded a moment.
In this last scene all were unanimous; there was no one to cast a gibe or an unkindly look upon that slow aged progress from the scene of his greatest labours to the death-bed which awaited him.
Burns was far higher and nobler in genius, and the worship awarded to him by his countrymen is one of the favourite subjects of gibe and jest among writers on the other side of the Tweed.
But Arnold appeared to take it simply and to see no gibe in it, only a pleasant commonplace.
The relief was palpable; nevertheless, when Pilate's wife cast a shrewish gibe at him over the shoulder of her exit, the audience showed but a faint inclination to be amused.
But neither for slap nor for gibe did Osberne flinch one whit, or change countenance.
And ever as it swung upon the air, it rang a chime upon its little, silver bells; a merry chime and mocking, that seemed to gibe at coming day.
Against him, if against any one, the famous and constantly repeated gibe about the fellows who have failed in literature and art, falls short and harmless.
The year 1809 brought "English Bards and Scotch Reviewers" with a gibe from Byron and a challenge from Moore.
Two hundred pounds English was, however, something too stupendous for his mind to grasp, and the gibe had no effect on him.
Margaret was in the room beneath me, "dreaming in Italian," thought I, in unhappy imitation of her dainty gibe at her father.
Brocton's 'yokel blood' gibe had put murder into my blows, but it had truth enough in it to make it rankle like a poisoned arrow.
This delicately veiled gibe at Ivan, for his predilection for paying vast sums of money to his mistresses by cheque, pleased those who heard it tremendously.
The maids looked at one another and laughed, while pretty Melantho began to gibe at him contemptuously.
But Minerva would not let the suitors for one moment cease their insolence, for she wanted Ulysses to become even more bitter against them; she therefore set Eurymachus son of Polybus on to gibe at him, which made the others laugh.
He flingsgibe after gibe at "God," but across his anger falls the shadow of the Cross.
No cruel uncle kept her land, No tyrant father forced her hand; She had no vixen virgin aunt Without whose aid she could not eat And yet who poisoned all her meat With gibe and sneer and taunt.
The Ballad of the Oysterman" was a gibe at the sentimental lays to be found in all the Annuals.
The popular method of justifying the Masters treatment is to gibe at the Robinson reticence as Puritan prudishness, but it is a gibe which for many enforces the value of reticence even in modern art.
This was a gibe made rather for the antithesis than its accuracy, for even Boone's enemies owned that he was a good neighbor, and, where his prejudices were not in question, a man with few distinctly repellent traits.
Instead, he broke out in a laugh, with a gibe flung first at Gilbert Stair and then at Falconnet.
The colonel laughed and shot a gibe sharp at my enemy.
His eyes rested on her hat, and she felt uncomfortably that he was inventing some gibe about it.
The gibe at his obesity had caught him on the raw.
So far from a gibe for a gibe and a taunt for a taunt, there never was softer answer than that which A.
At the beginning of the thirteenth century, there is an instance of the use of the offensive gibe which shows to what purpose it was beginning to be turned by the literate class of the day.
If, as there is reason to believe, he was a Frenchman, he merely repeated a gibewhich had long been one of the commonplaces of vulgar vituperation amongst his compatriots.
As late as the seventeenth century, an echo of the gibe may still be heard.
The chronicles that deal with these are not wanting in instances from which it may be gathered how readily the obnoxious gibe came to the lips of those that wished to show their contempt for the islanders.
The coincidence between it and an unquestionable gibe at Sir Thomas Lucy in The Merry Wives of Windsor renders it probable that it has been more or less correctly remembered.
We know from a gibe in Ben Jonson's Induction to his Bartholomew Fair that it was exceedingly popular.
It would ill mate with his pride for the world to know that he had been spitted like a capon by one whom he has dared to gibe at as the white hind of the forest!
I am all agape at what I see and hear; but a man must needs keep his astonishment to himself, else he becomes the butt and the gibe of all the company.
Douglas had to bear many a gibefor his publicly expressed hopes of peace.
Before him were men who had participated jubilantly in the Republican campaign, with many a bitter gibe at the champion of "squatter sovereignty.
But even that gibehinted at a recklessness that matched her own and gave her comfort now.
Only De Launay's careless gibe as he had left her at the hotel held promise of performance.
