The same impression would remain with me, no doubt, if I had been consulting an equal quantity of the work of Gavarni the wittiest, the most literary and most acutely profane of all chartered mockers with the pencil.
Who return to the world; Who flame at the breath Of the Mockers of Death.
Blue jays had raised their young in front of the house, and, as I was informed, had been successfully beaten off by the mockers and thrashers when they attempted assaults on the eggs and nestlings of the latter.
They took in all men; they were equally open to enemies and to friends, to mockers and to sympathisers.
The mockers here described certainly talk exactly like our modern uniformitarians; for they argue that "from the days that the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of the creation.
Harsh words and gibes greeted the cowards, but Rainouart soon forced the mockers to silence.
The other witches are jealous of the Raven Mockers and afraid to come into the same house with one.
Then the young man knew they were Raven Mockers and he was frightened and kept very quiet.
His wife followed him with a good will, because the Liege people, good mockers by nature, made game of her husband's easy meekness.
Knowing this first, that in the last days mockers shall come with mockery.
St. Peter says themockers will come; Polycarp[14] says in his day they had come.
The believer heeds no more the mockers who ask, "Where is the promise of His coming?
And the mockers then living could say, and doubtless did say, to the preacher in their midst, "These things have always been as they are, and will be so for evermore.
Here the mockers pass from the promise of Christ's return, and fall back upon the more distant records as supplying a stronger argument.
The mockers had made the delay of God's day the subject of their scoffing.
All Ministers would be carefull to cherish the smoaking flax of weak beginnings in the wayes of God, and ought couragiously to oppose all mockers and revilers of the godly.
Intrust not your comforts to men's airy and frothy applause, neither lay your down-castings on the tongues of salt mockers and reproachers of godliness.
Tip's paws were like ice and he was shivering violently, the first symptom of the pneumonia that killed mockers so quickly.
They were heavily armed, their prowlers beside them and their mockers on their shoulders.
The two mockers were pleasant company, riding on their shoulders and chattering any nonsense that came to mind.
They brought back two pairs of mockers as interested and trusting captives, together with a supply of the orange corn and a large amount of diamonds.
Once they had thought about going to the valley in the chasm where the mockers would be hibernating in their warm caves.
They discovered that the mockers had living quarters in both the cool caves and the ones warmed by the hot springs.
But if I get caught by a blizzard it will be up to you to tell them at the caves that I found iron and to tell them where it is--you know the mockers can't transmit that far.
Their intelligence was greater, and of a far more mature order, than that of the little mockers but their vocal cords were not capable of making the sounds necessary for speech.
The mockers had become silent as the elevation increased and when they stopped for the night Humbolt saw that they would never live to cross the mountain.
He had crossed another hill before Tip moved, to press up close to him the way mockers did when they were lonely and to hold tightly to him.
The mockers were fresh meat--but they accepted the humans with such friendliness and trust that Barber lost all his desire to have one for supper or for any other time.
The little mockers began roaming the ship at will, unable any longer to restrain their curiosity and confident that the men and prowlers would not let the Gerns harm them.
Presumably all mockers received the message but only the mocker to whom it was addressed would repeat it aloud.
Their weapons were ready, the mockers were trained, the prowlers were waiting.
These mockers thought that Christ's being fastened to the Cross was a reductio ad absurdum of His claim to build the Temple.
The savage mockersand the patient Christ (verse 65).
The mockery harps on the old themes, and witnesses at once the malicious cruelty of the mockers and the innocence of the Victim, at whom even such malice could find nothing to fling except these stale taunts.
Before proceeding to compare this passage with our Gospels, it may be well to determine who the mockers in this fragment really are.
Some of the mockers "prick" Jesus with a reed; others spat on his eyes.
Talkers of grace are but mockers of God, but flatterers of God.
The existing text is harsh; "profane of mockers for a cake" needs much explanation to be intelligible.
The mockers thought it exquisite sarcasm to bid Jesus roll His troubles on Jehovah, and to bid God deliver Him since He delighted in Him.
Mockers for a cake" are usually explained to be hangers-on at feasts who found wit for dull guests and were paid by a share of good things, or who crept into favour and entertainment by slandering the objects of the host's dislike.
Here again it is declared that the day of Christ, this Christian dispensation, is the last day, and that “there should be mockers in the last time, who should walk after their own ungodly lusts.
In verses seventeen and eighteen Jude tells us these are the mockers of Christianity that should come in the last time, who should walk after their own ungodly lust.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "mockers" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
