Though my mocks come home by me, I will now be merry.
Have the poor outraged Druses, deaf and blind, Precede me there, forestall my story there, Tell it in mocks and jeers!
We must make occasion serve,-- The oversight shall pay for the main sin That mocks us.
A sick wretch describes the ape That mocks him from the bed-foot, and all gravely You thither turn at once: or he recounts The perilous journey he has late performed, And you are puzzled much how that could be!
Voice croaked beside him, and it was the voice of the Jester who mocks at all things.
He has killed my deer andmocks me because I loved him, He is the devil in this place.
They can, we are told, in a few moments reduce Russian iron to the consistency of warmed wax, though it mocks the heat of many blast-furnaces.
Love deep as the sea as a rose must wither, As the rose-red seaweed that mocks the rose.
Sparta--ye Gave with vine that leaps and runs O'er her slopes, these slaves to beMocks and warnings to her sons!
Whoever is a hypocrite in his religion mocks God, presenting to him the outside, and reserving the inward for his enemy.
It plays with the clouds, it mocks the skies, or like a cradled creature lies.
These desires are, as it were, the tools and instruments by which deceit betrays and mocks men; the weapons used by illusions and lies to corrupt and mar the soul.
A single glance of it mocks all the investigations of man, and all the instruments and books of the earth, and all reasoning.
There is that indescribable freshness and unconsciousness about an illiterate person that humbles and mocks the power of the noblest expressive genius.
The writer thus mocks at all our dearest passions and strongest desires; and his general aim is to show that the mere search for happiness per se is a vulgar thing, and must always result in utter nothingness.
It mocks us by exhibiting a new race of men, animated by passions and impulses which are directly the opposite of ours, and yet no nearer happiness than we are.
It's easier to play with beautiful women and laughing children, than with a weapon like this, which mocks the strength even of real men.
Eros mocks all human efforts to resist or confine him; warm AEolian blood runs in thy veins and demands love; the passionate heart of thy Lesbian forefathers beats in thy breast.
They have forgotten that if we delay Death claps us on the shoulder, and with knife Or cord or fever mocks the prayer we pray-- 'Grudge us not life!
It mocks me where it stands--mocks the pain that rages in my heart.
He forsakes me in my declining years; mocks the hand that fed him; leaves me to loneliness and despair.
In vain had fickle Fortune barred the way, Want had been wealth with thee, my guide, my stay, And poverty had fallen from the wings Of soaring love, who mocks the wealth of kings!
Who mocks the Gods on high will his own wife betray!
Thus he mocks The absent; but, O stranger, tell him this Suppliant I beg thee.
I yearn for, but he mocks my messages, and promises yet never comes.
My life went well, For once, without the wheels of hope; And I despised the Druid rocks That scowl'd their chill gloom from above, Like churls whose stolid wisdom mocks The lightness of immortal love.
Perceval, following up the Robber Knight, meets the damsel who had carried off the hound, but she only mocks him for answer to his questions.
He mocks no grief with idle cheer, Nor wounds with words the mourner's ear; But ills and woes he may not cure He kindly trains us to endure.
But the trees the gleeman planted, Through the changes, changeless stand; As the marble calm of Tadmor Mocks the desert's shifting sand.
I vainly ask, formocks my skill The trick of Nature's cipher still.
She meets with smiles our bitter grief, With songs our groans of pain; She mocks with tint of flower and leaf The war-field's crimson stain.
Here a great personal deed has room (Such a deed seizes upon the hearts of the whole race of men, Its effusion of strength and will overwhelms law and mocks all authority and all argument against it).
Toward the fluid and attaching character exudes the sweat of the love of young and old, From it falls distill'd the charm that mocks beauty and attainments, Toward it heaves the shuddering, longing ache of contact.
I clutch the bars in desperation--a hollow echo mocks the clanking iron.
But the dread ghost is ever before me; it follows me up and down the cell, mocks me with the wild laughter of "Crazy Smith" in the stillness of the night, and with the moaning and waking of my neighbor suddenly gone mad.
It ensnares the river banks in its mysterious embrace, veils tree and rock with sombre mist, and mocks the sun with angry frown.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "mocks" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
