In the matter of bounds the mockeris without a peer.
This bird had opened hostilities when the mocker first appeared, presuming on being the older resident, and the only bird who cared much to be on the floor.
After a little of this contention, the mocker generally succeeded in carrying off a bit to some quiet place, where he could eat at his leisure.
To others than his own kind the mocker seems usually indifferent, with the single exception of the crow.
Mr. Keith brought home word that Mr. Mocker would leave for the East in a fortnight and would be happy to take charge of Miss Stanhope.
Nick when Mocker asked him 'tother day when the weddin' was to come off.
Because a man is a mocker and not a penitent, who, while doing penance, does what he repents having done, or intends to do again what he did before, or even commits actually the same or another kind of sin.
It is the paradox of the mocker that he often displays the virtues and sentiments which he mocks, much more manfully than the professional sentimentalist.
They have smiled no little at Mathilde Crescence Mirat; but he who was perhaps the greatest mocker that ever lived knew better than to laugh at Mathilde.
Presumably all mockers received the message but only the mocker to whom it was addressed would repeat it aloud.
One mocker was killed then; the speckle-faced mockerthat could repeat messages verbatim.
The message stopped and there was a silence that Chiara's mocker would never break again.
In addition, they would transmit the message to whichever mocker their master's thought directed.
Tip, the black, white-nosed mocker on Lake's shoulder, kept twisting his neck to watch the departure of the others until he had crossed the next hill and the others were hidden from view.
When the caves were reached, a very gradual reduction of pressure in the mocker cages was started; one that would cover a period of weeks.
There was a flicker of black movement and a young messenger prowler came running from the direction of the council hall, a speckle-faced mocker clinging to its back.
They were well on their way by daylight the next morning, on the shoulder of each of them a mocker which observed the activity and new scenes with bright, interested eyes.
By the end of the fifteenth year their training had reached such a stage of perfection that a mocker would transmit or not transmit with only the unspoken thought of its master to tell it which it should be.
The yellow eyes of Sigyn and the dark eyes of the little mocker looked into his as he spoke to them and accompanied his words with the strongest, clearest mental images he could project: "Sigyn, take Tip to the not-men thing.
The white mocker died at midmorning the next day as they stopped for a rest.
When at last a Raven Mocker dies these other witches sometimes take revenge by digging up the body and abusing it.
All at once they heard a Raven Mocker cry overhead and the others scattered "like a flock of pigeons when the hawk swoops.
At night, when some one is sick or dying in the settlement, the Raven Mocker goes to the place to take the life.
Mocker nut or moker nut is said (Britton) to be from a Dutch word meaning hammer, or else (Keeler) from disappointing quality of nuts.
Sambo, he didn't nebber like Mockers, a'ter one time he 'spicioned a Mockertole tales on him.
Raoul and Enguerrand, sons of thatmocker of man, the Count de Vandemar.
Mauleon which would warrant participation in a popular emeute by the editor of a journal belonging to that mocker of the mob.
He was afraid that they might not forgive the tricks that Mr. Mocker had played on them, and then of course he couldn't stay in the Green Forest.
Ol' Mistah Buzzard laughed when he heard that some folks said that Mr. Mocker had not come by his voice honestly.
Peter and Mocker became great friends, and so when Peter heard it whispered around that Mr. Mocking-bird had not come by his wonderful voice honestly, he didn't believe a word of it and was very indignant.
Of course Mr. Mocker had to show off his wonderful voice to each one.
And this is all for the present about the adventures of Mr. Mocker the Mocking-bird.
Of course he couldn't go to Mr. Mocker himself and ask him, for he didn't want Mr. Mocker to know that such unkind things were being said.
So Mr. Mocker went calling with Ol' Mistah Buzzard, and they visited all the little meadow and forest people who had not been at the party.
He hadn't heard the whisper that Mr. Mocker had not come by his voice honestly, and he thought that Peter Rabbit was asking just to hear a story.
If you please, Grandfather Frog, how does it happen that Mr. Mocker has such a wonderful voice and can make it sound like the voice of any one whom he hears?
So Unc' Billy scratched his head and thought and thought of how he could get Mr. Mocker out of the trouble he had got him into.
While they were talking the matter over, Mr. Mocker began to sing again that wonderful song of his.
Mistah Mocker had the grace to look ashamed of himself when saw how disappointed little Mrs. Peter was.
No," said the stranger, who was, of course, Mistah Mocker the Mockingbird.
Now Mistah Mocker reached the Green Meadows just after Peter Rabbit had brought little Mrs. Peter down from the Old Pasture to live with him in the dear Old Briar-patch.
Mistah Mocker the Mockingbird had been very late in coming up to the Green Meadows from way down South.
The old Egyptians had no need to put a skeleton at their tables, nor the Romans to set a mockerbehind the hero as he rode in triumph up to the Capitol.
The world provides the skeleton at the banquet, and circumstances supply the mocker to add a dash of failure to all our triumphs.
