A few seconds after Mr. Winthrop entered, followed immediately by Hubert who was quite metamorphosed from the gay, scoffing youth into a steady-paced young man.
I must hasten to your mother's relief," I said, with a little scoffing laugh.
The five senses, or if you will, scoffing Atheists, profane foul-mouthed drunkards, and all the rabble of hell are the Mariners.
But with the scoffing scepticism and its complementary counterpart, the dogmatic mysticism of religion, there was associated also a most visionary gnosticism.
The general was much pleased with the beasts of Marius and often spoke about them, which gave rise to the scoffing epithet of Marian mule, when the subject of commendation was a persevering, enduring, and labour-loving man.
He went on in the tone in which he had begun, scoffing at the limited nature of every human effort.
Gilbert Burns says it is a scoffing appellation sometimes given to sheriff's officers and other executors of the law.
There seems to be a scoffing allusion to a book of the time, which was full of the platitudes of celebrated philosophers, in Touchstone's speech to William (v.
Constrained as he is, or thinks himself, to employ dissimulation and cunning, he is in a fever of impatience, and is for ever reviling and scoffing at himself for his inaction, as though it were due to indifference or cowardice.
When now I think of the triumph John Paul has achieved, of the scoffing world he has brought to his feet, I cannot but recall that sorrowful evening in the gardener's cottage, when a son was restored but to be torn away.
And the Creoles fell to scoffing at their sufferings and even forgot their hunger in staring at the goal.
Love such as hers can even summon genius to its aid, and she took fire herself at the thought of a book worthy of that love, of a book--though signed by him that would redeem them, and bring a scoffing world to its knees in praise.
Having reached the other side, they rode up and down the opposite bank shouting to us where they thought it the safest to cross, and of course interlarded their directions with good-natured scoffing about hesitation, timidity, and so on.
The hero's blood was warming, as the scoffing Danes had foretold.
The Grey Wolf glared at his scoffing wife; but she threw back her cloak, and withstood his look with the cold glitter of her sunken eyes.
Do not send me from your realm wolfshead, that those who hate me may jeer my name, and my friends listen to the scoffing with sealed lips.
Our soul is exceedingly filled with the scoffing of those who are at ease, with the contempt of the proud.
We have become a reproach to our neighbors, a scoffingand derision to those who are around us.
You make us a reproach to our neighbors, a scoffing and a derision to those who are around us.
Rainey looked the scoffing devil full in his eyes, and hot scorn mounted to his own so swiftly that Carlsen's hand fell away from the door jamb toward his hip.
Carlsen stood there gazing at him with his look of a sphinx, his eyes half-closed, the scoffing light showing faintly.
Did they in their hearts assent to such a scoffing speech?
Could it be his sister who was up there scoffing at her?
At St. Regis' Amory stayed three days and took his exams with a scoffing confidence, then doubling back to New York to pay his tutelary visit.
Perhaps they might be used in the solemn part of their ceremonies; and the Fescennine, which were invented after them, in their afternoons' debauchery, because they were scoffing and obscene.
We waste our youth in scoffing at reality, and in the unrealness of our old age the present no longer avails us much.
I know, I know," replied Camille, with the suffering yet scoffing air of a girl who is ignorant of nothing.
But for his brave presence the terror of that lonely watch would have been harder than the peril of the street, for he seemed more like a gentle mother than the careless, scoffing invalid of the trail.
Father Josef whirled about quickly, but the man made a scoffing gesture.
He reddened, but her scoffing seemed to give him courage, as if he had something not to be scoffed at and could produce it.
He was seated on his hind legs, gazing up at the moon with his fine warm coat all bristly, scoffing and scoffing.
The hyena wasscoffing because he was comfortable; he was comfortable because of the heavy coat that he wore.
