Emile was not demonstrative; but a warm and genuine friendship for Ivan had a place in his heart since the day when the young Russian answered his scoffs with generous words of counsel and expostulation.
They that of late were daring with their scoffs Are glad and fain by flight to save themselves.
He had been present at Cordova at one of the payments of tribute, and had witnessed the scoffs and taunts of the Christians, and his blood boiled whenever he recalled the humiliating scene.
Our zealous chronicler scoffs at the Moorish alcayde who lost his fortress by surprise in broad daylight, and contrasts the vigilance of the Christian governor of Alhama, the town taken in retaliation for the storming of Zahara.
The literary school in Italy which is the outgrowth of the Futuristic movement points the contemptuous finger at him and scoffs at his productions, but he has, nevertheless, a large following and is a writer of much skill.
He will always be trying something more difficult, turns at higher speed or in difficult snow, and consequently he will often be seen to fall, and the beginner who scoffs is merely voted an ignoramus.
Yet it is the experienced runner who carries the gear, the beginner it is who usually scoffs and takes risks, not only to himself, but to the people who have to go out to look for him when he is benighted or hurt.
Do you think yourscoffs can extinguish the flames of hell?
I've stood for more sneers and scoffs and insults and had my life threatened from one end of the land to the other by this God-forsaken gang of thugs and cutthroats because I have come out uncompromisingly against them.
Then she surveyed the assembly furtively, as though prepared for insult or worse, and quietly repeated her strange story amid general scoffs and impatience.
And as he climbed he heard behind him scoffs and jeers, but he kept his ears steadily closed to them.
Above all, heed not the laughs and scoffs that will arise on all sides, and never turn round.
As you go you will hear scoffs and laughs behind you; it will be the stones that mock.
And when he began to climb there burst forth all around him a storm of scoffs and jeers; but he thought of the giant's words, and looked neither to the right hand nor to the left, till the mountain top lay straight before him.
He was supported by the alms of the charitable and did no work, but lived an idle life, endured no hardships, and escaped not the scoffs of the satirical.
At first they were immensely popular, but the orders degenerated like their predecessors, and long before the Reformation laid themselves open to the derision and the scoffs of the more enlightened men of the age.
A group of butchers and half-drunken mechanics, headed by a tall carpenter, stood nearest the altar, and frequently interrupted the monk with scoffs and threats.
You are exposed to the scoffs and ridicule of the masses, at all times and in all places.
He scoffs at one of their tribunes for maintaining their rights and franchises: 'Mark you his absolute SHALL?
With scoffs and scorns, and contumelious taunts, In open market-place produced they me, To be a public spectacle to all.
If we can not endure the little persecutions, the unkind words, the sneering smiles, the scoffs and jeers, of the unbelieving world, is it not because our love lacks fervency?
Christ proved his love by enduring the scoffsand ill-treatment of the people and the shame and suffering of the cross.
He scoffs at the idea held by so many 'amateurs' that 'Cavalry duels' are superfluous.
The nations around had scoffed at these "feeble Jews," and the scoffs had not been without echoes in Israel itself.
Athens, who were but repeating the scoffs of the prophets and priests of Jerusalem, and the same jeers are bitter in the mouth of many a profligate man to-day.
Verses 9 and 10 are generally taken as a sarcastic quotation of the drunkards' scoffs at the prophet.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "scoffs" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
