Scarcely had the door of the court closed behind him than he heard the end of it all, the horrible mocking laughter which burst forth from the whole room, directly he had left it--a sound which followed him out into the corridor.
Whoever had a well-filled purse had a free choice, if it so pleased him, but woe to him who set about it empty handed, for the nickname wherewith his mocking neighbours had christened him, stuck to him pitilessly.
Jenny held them in fee with her mocking eyes, bewitched them with musical derision, and fooled them as Hera fooled the passionate Titan.
Alfie, haunted by a thousand mocking eyes, fled to his room and wept tears of shame.
The Mephistophelian and mocking character of Lox is strongly shown when he says, "Nothing but a cat-tail or bulrush can kill me," this being evidently an allusion to Glooskap.
And there you shall see theirmocking and the reason of it.
A lightning-flash from the blond beauty's eyes and a mocking smile from the dandy rewarded this courteous forbearance.
But the mocking smile changed the next instant to a sudden expression of disquiet, if not of actual fear.
From time to time she wondered what had chanced to the girl who had made her such fair promises of deliverance; and then she told herself that Janet, after all, had been but mocking her.
The sun, shining day-long out of blue skies, seemed rather a mocking comrade of the wind, for his warmth in shaded corners served only to set a keener edge to the blast that lay in waiting at the next turn.
Nicholas, weary of mocking her, pointed a forefinger at the door.
He wore a suit of faded blue velvet, reddish brown hair only half covered his head, and a mocking laugh lurked about the corners of his lips while he was softly speaking to Rolla.
Benedetto, bold and impudent, looked at his former chain-companion, and a mocking smile played about his lips.
She answered with that wayward, mocking humor that so often seized her; "Because I like to.
The young man's face flushed at his companion's mocking tone; but he laughed.
Suddenly changing her manner, she smiled with deliberate, mocking humor.
The doctor could have sworn that the lips were twisted into a shadow of a ghastly, mocking smile.
With her eyes staring in a frenzy of madness, with her face wet and ghastly, and her voice raised in an endless mocking shriek of laughter, she dashed past him.
All over the place," she answered, with her head thrown back and her mocking laugh ringing through the place.
She had put away hermocking tone--was clearly determined to be kind and cousinly.
Through all this drama of an inventive and exacting faith, Laura Fountain passed like a being from another world, an alien and a mocking spirit.
Still, as one could never be sure what might not be lurking behind some rocky shoulder, where the road turned like a tight belt, our musical siren sang at each turn its gay little mocking notes.
Suddenly the chorus of an American song ran with mocking echoes through my brain.
The exclamation fell upon Bernard's ear with a certain softly mocking cadence which was sufficient, however, to make this organ tingle.
Gone too from the world, Averroes and Moses Maimonides, dark men in mien and movement, flashing in their mocking mirrors the obscure soul of the world, a darkness shining in brightness which brightness could not comprehend.
At that voice, that mocking tone, and that familiar gesture, accenting voice and tone, Athos made a bound of surprise.
His mocking laugh and threatening words passed over their heads, carried by the breeze, until lost in the depths of the horizon.
Markart understood them very well; there was no need of Stafnitz's mocking little smile to point the meaning.
He looked doubtfully at her mocking face; she meant a little more than the idle words naturally carried.
Stafnitz smoked his cigarette with a light, rather mocking smile.
The supplanter swept off his hat with a mocking salutation, but the Squire passed him without a sign of recognition.
She is looking at him as she says this; and the cruel expression in his eyes and the mocking smile that stirs his lips make her heart beat with something like fear.
Is it their overwrought fancy, or does a low mocking laugh float back to them?
As the mocking words pass his lips, Honor turns to gaze at the gray pile, which looks very rugged in the dusk.
Other women may be fairer, other women may be ready to give him love where this girl gives him but a mocking tolerance; but no other woman can ever be to him what she is.
The bird's cry is caught up and echoed round the empty spaces, till it seems as if the place must be full ofmocking spirits.
His face, though sickly and emaciated, interested her by reason of its vivid intelligence and a certain mocking look of eye and lip.
She watched him with a mocking smile as he poured forth a torrent of vehement words--denunciations of all things joyful, exhortations to repentance, and thunders of prospective vengeance on sin.
Facing this was a medallion bearing a ducal crown in the centre, the scroll-work round this medallion was made of giant thorns, and a peering, mocking satyr's face peeped out from the thorn wreath.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "mocking" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
