Strange that a habitual scoffer like Walpole should imagine that this cant could impose on the dullest reader!
But not the coolest sceptic or the most profane scoffer was more perfectly free from the contagion of their frantic delusions, their savage manners, their ludicrous jargon, their scorn of science, and their aversion to pleasure.
The average scofferat things automobilistic is not very sincerely a scoffer at heart.
The course was run, and the brawny scoffer tilted out of his saddle.
With that Guarinos, lance in rest, against the scoffer rode, Pierced at one thrust his envious breast, and down his turban trode.
To various auditors, for that reason, the work seemed a little Methodistical; and drab is a colour at which the voice of the scoffer is apt to scoff.
He embodied a demoniac scoffer who, nevertheless, is a human being.
A modest dedication make, And give noscoffer room to say, "What!
There is only one scoffer in the district, an Orangeman; and he admits the removal of the cemetery, but says it was dug up and transplanted in the night by a body of men under the command of Father Tom.
Let the scoffer sneer, let the proud man refuse to bend before the Altar of his Lord; but let nothing drive you from the Blessed Sacrament of Christ's love.
The fields of the earnest, prayerful man, and those of the unbelieving, prayerless scoffer lie golden under the same sunlight, are watered by the same showers.
A scoffer seeks wisdom, and doesn't find it, but knowledge comes easily to a discerning person.
A wise son listens to his father's instruction, but a scoffer doesn't listen to rebuke.
A scoffer doesn't love to be reproved; he will not go to the wise.
Lemarchant de Gomicourt, and the celebrated scofferof the right, M.
To whom did this anarchicalscoffer unite himself in this phalanx of absolute minds?
Whan they were agreedde, what he shuld haue for his labour, thescoffer sayde to the man: holde!
The sentimentality is so crude that no parody could be more comic than this mournful apostrophe, which the arch-scoffer wrote in all good faith.
And yet this scoffer at the obligation of a promise is offered four or five thousand dollars on condition that he plights his word to embark for England and to give up all his hopes of you.
Spartacus was delighted with it, considered Nicholai as a most excellent champion, and gave him the name of Lucian, the great scoffer at all religion, as aptly expressing his character.
Nicolai, an eminent and learned bookseller in Berlin, and author of several works of reputation, took the name of Lucian, the great scoffer at all religion.
Having bored himself to death by an assumed sanctimony for two years, Thornton came out of the house of bondage a rank atheist, a scoffer at all things holy, a scorner of all men who called themselves Christians.
This man was, perhaps, a natural product of that dark age which went before the Great Revival--the age when not to be a Deist and a scoffer was to be out of the fashion.
If any scoffer presumes to make light of his ceremonial, he does not go unpunished; he is bound with vine-twigs; or his own mother mistakes him for a fawn, and tears him limb from limb.
The scoffer Relling treats no worse than he deserves the idiot who, in fulfilling his ‘mission in life’ disturbs the peace between Hjalmar and his wife, destroys their comfortable home, and drives Hedwig to her death.
In that production a delicious dialogue is brought about between the malevolent idiot Gregers and the scoffer Relling (p.
I trust that it will in a time not far off be presented for common use in families, schools, synagogues and churches, in a refined shape, cleansed from all dross and chaff, and stumbling blocks in which the scoffer delights to dwell.
They are taken, however, by the mass of the church as evidence that all opposition to Christianity, so-called, fills the bed of the dying infidel and scoffer with serpents and scorpions.
Suppose the editor of the Watchman had died, and Judge Normile had been the survivor, would the infidel and scoffer have attacked the unreplying dead?
Moldehnke, whose name seems chiefly made of consonants, denounces me as a scoffer and as illogical, and says that Christianity is not founded upon the devil, but upon Christ.
The mere brainless scoffer is, on the other hand, lower than the beast of the field, since he lacks the animal's self-respect and humble resignation.
All creeds may be welded together, but the Puritan and the scoffer are like oil and water.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "scoffer" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
