When she caused people to talk to him of her, he merely shrugged his shoulders as was his habit, and smiled disdainfully; though occasionally he could not resist the temptation of ridiculing her comic pretensions.
The conservative press of Europe made this another occasion for ridiculingthe Yankee Republic, whose money-making propensities should be curtailed and whose gaudy wares and vulgar rocking-chairs should be tabooed everywhere.
John Quincy Adams never tired of ridiculing the puerile maneuvers of backwoods politicians whose ignorance amounted almost to high crime.
Vyadrovski's life in Monte Carlo was spent generally in ridiculing his fellow-countrymen and the younger Slav brothers.
Had it not been for the manner in which Robert Ingersoll outraged the members of every Christian denomination by attacking and ridiculing their beliefs, he would certainly have been called to high office in the Nation.
At the same hour Douglas was addressing a Springfield audience of his own, ridiculing especially Mr. Lincoln's alleged attitude toward the Supreme Court.
Ridiculing the school of Isocrates, he would add, that his scholars grew old men before they had done learning with him, as if they were to use their art and plead causes in the court of Minos in the next world.
In this latter capacity I was frequently guilty of errors, in which event Barbara would interfere by forcibly taking away whatever money I had in my hand, and ridiculing and mocking me before the customers.
I could hear them speaking, hear them abusing me; it even seemed as though they were ridiculing me.
In one cut a couple of fiends appear to be ridiculing his "Holiness" the pope; and in another is a young gallant with a guitar, entertaining a nun in her bed-chamber.
As "Boz" was dealing with the corrupt practices at Elections, and severely ridiculing them, he was naturally afraid of being made responsible.
Estcourt was a writer for the stage as well as actor, and had shown his agreement with the Spectators dramatic criticisms by ridiculing the Italian opera with an interlude called Prunella.
Arthur Sloane, the detective said later, never forgave him that unexpected wave of the handkerchief--and the servant's ridiculing laugh.
Her thin nostrils dilated once, quickly, and somehow their motion suggested the beginning of a ridiculing smile.
Lucian is never tired of ridiculing the verbal quibbles in which the philosophers of his time indulged.
Lucian is fond of ridiculing the different schools of philosophy, some for their paradoxical choice of ends, some for their hypocrisy in practically disregarding their own precepts.
These rhetoricians who make farces and street plays," wrote the Cardinal to Philip, "are particularly angry with me, because two years ago I prevented them fromridiculing the holy Scriptures.
It seemed as if the people could take no pleasure except in ridiculing God and the Church.
Somebody proposed a Martyrs' Day; he wrote a paper ridiculing the suggestion.
He began by gently ridiculing hyperculture--the new culture--and ended with a eulogy on Huck Finn.
For a long time this man held fast to the orthodox profession of faith, ridiculing the 'new religion' of Akbar, and especially ridiculing Faizi and Abulfazl, to whom he applied nicknames expressing his sense of their pretensions.
While they wereridiculing Wolsey at Rome, at St. Germain's, they were joking about Henry.
Hugh Latimer, for such was his name, combined a biting humour with an impetuous disposition and indefatigable zeal, and was very quick in ridiculing the faults of his adversaries.
Men like Lucian, sometimes in half melancholy, half scornful derision, amused themselves with ridiculing the chaotic results of the intellectual ambition of the past.
And satire was never tired of ridiculing these sham aristocrats, Bithynian knights as they were called, often of the lowest origin, who on public occasions vulgarly asserted their mushroom rank.
He should never seek to break her of any disagreeable habits or peculiarities she may possess, by ridiculing them.
Young persons appear ridiculous when satirizing or ridiculing books, people or things.
Pailleron revived some of the most characteristic tendencies of the best French satirical comedy in ridiculing the pompous pretentiousness of learning for its own sake,[153] the light-hearted gaiety of E.
She did not know that, even before his break with her, Jules had begun to tire of the diver's domineering manner and of her habit of ridiculing him; moreover, he had at last perceived that she was only playing with him.
In a short time he was speaking humorously of those weeks, ridiculing himself as if he had already become different, almost another person from what he had been then.
At home he spent a large part of his time in ridiculing the English, just as on his return from America he had ridiculed the Americans.
She never forgave Buzenval for ridiculing her bad pronunciation of the French language; and when Henry IV.
