By day the Bactrians thronged their battlements, gibing at their foes, while at night the walls were lighted by flaring braziers clamped beneath the jut-stones and fed with pitch through slits which pierced the masonry.
She took refuge in an easy neutrality, remaining silent when gibing words were passed from mouth to mouth, and avoiding every opportunity of coming into contact with Pixie herself.
It is really cruel to be always gibingand jeering as they are, and the older girls ought to set a better example.
Because it's realistic,' said Fagerolles, in so sharp a voice that one could not tell whether he was gibing at the jury or at the picture.
The man was old, and his gibing tongue his only weapon.
But I cut short his gibing with an impatient command to Pantin to start.
Truly, the Catawba's wolves might find an easy-- A chattering scream of agony sent shrill and sharp upon the stillness of the night halted me and broke the gibing comment in the midst.
That done, he must needs gloat, Indian-wise, over his fallen adversary, turning the headless body with his foot and gibingat it.
Dick had more of the nippings than I; and though he kept up a running fire of taunts and gibing flings at the marksmen, I could hear the gritting oaths aside when they pinked him.
The weird flickering light of the dying candles danced on the figure of the savage standing there on the brink of that horrible hell-pit, gibing at his once terrible but now vanquished foe.
The gibing tone had passed from her voice to mine.
It was another to listen to her hard, pitiless words, to change colour under the lash of her gibing tongue.
He heard her name, the name of the gracious and beautiful vision of his adoration, repeated in hoarse, in maculate, in gibing tones.
He had paid for their drinks, hearkening negligently to their stereotyped stories, secretly gibing at their obvious goodfellowship, their eager, tremulous smiles.
At the sight of the grotesque waste a swift resentment moved Gordon Makimmon--it was a mockery of his money's use, a gibingat his capability, his planning.
There was a hoarse uproar of gibing laughter, backs and knees were slapped, heavy feet stamped.
Why, that's the way to choke a gibing spirit, Whose influence is begot of that loose grace Which shallow laughing hearers give to fools.
She seemed to take a pleasure positively savage in these, gibing at me sometimes so bitterly as to shame and pain me, and bring the colour to Madame de Rosny's cheeks.
That single glimpse she had had, past the gibing devil in his eyes, deep into the man himself, had told her something different.
This time two or three voice's were raised, gibing him; the crowd was growing jealous of its champion's reputation.
Oh, come,' he said, in a light, gibing tone which just stopped short of the offensive.
But something in his gibing tone, something in the set lines of his figure--she could not see his face--checked her.
For once, not even the fear of Catherine's gibing tongue could hold her silent.
He no longer gave utterance to those sudden, gibing speeches which had so often hurt her intolerably.
The Thing was there, silent and invisible, gibing at his pitiful effort.
A fangless adder unwound itself from about his wrist, and he held it to the dead man's staring eyes, gibing at him.
Tis Loptur’s[41] daughter, who the gods on high Insults with gibing laugh, and bitter mockery.
Besides," again the gibing note was in his voice, "you'll get along much better without me.
He seemed to be gibing rather at a blow that had glanced aside.
He was still quivering with anger, yet because of that gibing devil at his elbow he strove to speak temperately, strove to hold back the raging flood of fierce resentment that threatened to overwhelm him.
It was as if he had caught a glimpse of the monster gibing at his elbow, goading him, goading them, both.
His antipathy had become almost an obsession, and he never saw her without flinging some gibing taunt in her direction.
Words that Giles Sheppard had uttered only that morning arose suddenly in her memory, gibing words that sent the hot blood again to her cheeks.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "gibing" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
