Well, I am sure it had time to heal before this time," said the woman, with a tone of mockery that at last became palpable to the dying man.
It was a short, husky, barking noise, with derision and mockery in every cadence of it.
Gholam Kadir asking the blind Emperor in mockery "If he saw anything?
A tattered awning had been raised over the entrance to the famous Diwan-i-Khas, and underneath, on a mockery of a throne, was seated the descendant of Akbar and of Aurangzeb.
They are mockery all, these flowers of Spring, Which her airs so softly woo; And the love to which we would madly cling, Ay!
Boils not thy blood, while thus thou'rt led about, The sport and mockery of the rabble rout?
Her song was in mockery of love, And oft I heard her say, "The gathered rose, and the stolen heart, Can charm but for a day.
Their untroubled depths of blue; They are mockery all, these eyes!
Sylvia could not bear any longer this mockery of her mother's love, and, bursting into the kitchen, she began to abuse Valentine with all the vulgar words she had learned from Blanche.
Five days hath the Prophet been lying In Babylon, in the den Of the lions, death-defying, Defying hunger and thirst; But the worst Is the mockery of men!
Even remaining constant to duty, she must, in continuous disappointment and the mockery of a false unity, have lost the health, and worse, the spirits necessary to wholesome contact and such work as she was fain to do.
She was not a priggish child, and did not deserve the mockery with which her barbarian brother invaded her little temple.
Mockery is the share they choose in the motions of the life eternal!
This mockery of a great sorrow and a great love seemed so wicked and cruel.
Even Galusha, dully inert as he was just then, again felt his indignation stirred by the shabby mockery of it all.
It was Yeovil's attitude that really troubled her; she would not give way to his prejudices and accept his point of view, but she knew that a victory that involved estrangement from him would only bring a mockery of happiness.
And here, bethinking me of the cruel mockery of it all (should this indeed be so) black anger seized me.
For the next fifteen years, the principle of unlimited mockery was quite faithfully observed.
I mean the atheism and ceaseless mockery with which they invariably meet any generous impulse aroused in an honest soul by a healthy faith.
In our time, this persecution becomes mockery or indifference.
Zossimov, who had begun his sage advice partly to make an effect before the ladies, was certainly somewhat mystified, when, glancing at his patient, he observed unmistakable mockery on his face.
Svidrigaïlov looked at him attentively and Raskolnikov fancied he caught a flash of spiteful mockery in that look.
Then she slung her kite across her shoulder, and ran home, laughing and crying for joy and triumph to think that all Bimsha's mockery must now be at an end.
And the exceeding bitterness of her self-reproach, which alone saved her composure, forbidding the mockery of tears, was only exaggerated when she remembered how vain her remorse must remain.
And here am I, able and willing, only longing to task myself to the uttermost, yet tethered down to the merest mockery of usefulness by conventionalities.
But it would be a wicked mockery in me to pretend to be the wife you want.
Her eyes had a gleam of mischievous mockery in them; and Leroy was conscious of an irritation which he could scarcely explain to himself.
Mr. Blake's proposal was, that I should marry them in reality, while letting him think it was only a mockery of a holy ordinance.
And in due time the solemn mockery was performed by the Rev.
She was smiling as she listened to him, a smile not of mockeryor disdain, only so gallingly full of utter indifference to him.
It would only sound like mockery were I to say how grieved I am to give you this pain, since I should still remain inexorable.
To Teddy, there wasmockery in these cheerful sounds.
Into what a frightful mockery have such as you degraded her worship!
In the darkest days of my desolation, Doctor Grantlin believed me innocent, honored me with his confidence and friendship, soothed my mother's dying hour; and he will rejoice to learn that acquittal anticipated the mockery of a pardon.
It was hard enough before, but this mockery maddens.
When I am called to the settlement, it seems an insult and a mockery to ask God, whom I have defied, to save me.
What a mockery seemed the usual signs and sounds of domestic life!
What a mockery for that little bird to sing in his cage, over Mary's head!
He achieved his object; but he has given to his wife only the mockery of immortality.
But the gifts of fortune were brought to him with sad auguries, like the soft sunny smiles of September skies, which gild the fading leaves with a mockery of May.
Indeed, Voltaire's mockery of the miracles of the Bible was nothing but a reminiscence of the poem known as the "Moisade" which had been put in his hands by Chateauneuf and which he knew by heart.
