And dead are all their scoffers now and all their sneers forgot And scarce a nickel's worth of good was brought here by the lot.
Once, indeed, a misguided and too venturous believer named Cooper took upon him to usurp authority, and pronounced the sentence of damnation upon a small batch of fifteen scoffers who had jeered at him and the prophet's mission.
As for the scoffers and skeptics, I am so disgusted with them that in all my life I would not open my mouth for them once.
Let the scoffersslander us, let them spare us not.
The land of profligates and scoffers respected these women and this sort of love--and what more can be said in their favour?
The love for ecclesiastical pomp and display helped to confirm it, and now and then there came one of those epidemics of revivalism, which few even among the scoffers and the sceptics were able to withstand.
The irreverent scoffers at our Supreme Court have in the past complained (though none do now) that there were "old women" in gowns on the bench.
I don't know why scoffers make so light of these partings--at the foot of the main stairs of the hotel gallery, just as Mrs. Farquhar was descending.
Then on one winter's night, shortly before the election writs were issued, the doubters and the scoffers were once and for all confounded.
But what cannot such scoffers do, especially if they find a soft creature, on whom they may work?
It has been told that eternal misery is the doom of those who leave the paths of dogma; and it has been falsely and persistently taught that Free-thinkers are evil and unclean, men without care for right, scoffersat every good thing.
But it is not scoffers who wage this war of the rational against the supernatural: let none deceive themselves with that vain thought, or perpetuate the incorrect assertion.
He was not willing to run the risk of hearing that which to him was a frightful reality turned into ridicule by scoffers and unbelievers.
Thus, both the alleged impossibilities upon which the argument against the truth of the Bible is based will be removed, and the gross ignorance of natural science displayed by professedly scientific scoffers at the Bible exposed.
God has of set purpose placed stumbling-blocks for scoffers at the entrance and the exit of the Bible, as a rebuke to pride and vain curiosity.
Scoffers maintain that his only merit as a philologist consists in his having a very pretty daughter.
Scoffers maintained that the princess avoided a bright light merely because her faded features and injured complexion could not well be exposed to bright day-light.
Such impious and shallow smattering captivatesscoffers and libertines; its flippancy and blasphemy, and the strong scent of its loose-reined license works like a charm upon them.
And then when he went to court he found a ruler disposed to break out into the most violent fits of anger if his will was disputed, whilst on every hand he had to encounter a host of scoffers and infidels, belonging to every hue and grade.
That of the people, in the sense in which it is now generally understood, was unknown; even infidels and scoffers scarcely dreamed of it.
Family prayer is neglected; and, to the shame of scoffersbe it spoken, too much ridiculed.
A man who has the public good in view, ought not in the least to be alarmed at the tribute of ridicule which scoffers constantly pay to projecting heads.
Consequently he taught his pupils just enough to make them sensualists and scoffers like himself.
He's goin' to head it off," said one of the scoffers to Morgan, beginning to feel a return of his exultation.
This black column rose but a little way, where it flattened against the cool current that was setting in ahead of the storm, and whirled off over the roofs of Ascalon to mock the scoffers who had laughed in their day.
The scoffers laughed louder at this, the sniffers wrinkled their noses a little more.
The scoffers were again in their glory, and unhesitatingly pronounced the enterprise a failure.
The friends of the inventor were in a state of feverish anxiety lest the enterprise should come to grief, and the scoffers on the wharf were ready to give vent to shouts of derision.
And we now reap the fruit of the seed which they have so unadvisedly sown," said Ambrosius; "they taught men to make a mock of what is holy, what wonder that the descendants of scoffers become robbers and plunderers?
Amid heretics and schismatics, spoilers of the church's lands, and scoffers at saints and sacraments, there is left a remnant.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "scoffers" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
