But during the latter part of the seventeenth century, inconsistency had necessarily ceased to be a disgrace; and a man was no more taunted with it, than he is taunted with being black at Timbuctoo.
He was drunk, and my son, who led an irregular life, had made him so, and afterwards taunted him, more than a youth of nineteen was likely to bear.
He no longer taunted the police officer but condescended to admit that the emperor was a good fellow after all.
Another time, when taunted by the old woman, she went still further and declared that Lantier was as much her husband as was Coupeau--that he was the father of two of her children.
He would summon his enemies before him, sometimes in hosts, sometimes as individuals--all those who ever in his life had mocked and taunted him, scolded him and threatened him.
This was a fact that came to him rarely now, for he was hard-driven and bitter; but it was true that when he sneered at the church and taunted it, he was like a parent who whips a child he loves.
Well, I haven't failed this time," Devlin taunted him.
I regret I didn't bring my golf clubs," Trent taunted him.
In vain did he try to suppress it; and, according to tradition, having wasted his fortune in vain attempts to buy up all the copies of it, and being taunted by the rivals whom he had thought to overwhelm, he died of chagrin.
The Lincoln Government had already been taunted with weakness by the people who had placed it in office.
He taunted McDuffie with having admitted that Congress had power to charter a bank.
The whole thing seemed so awful to me--so revolting--I am sorry for what I tauntedyou with.
But Creech laughed at all offers and taunted Bostil with a boast that in another summer he would see a horse out in front of the King.
Coward," he taunted her, "to scald a man with three ribs and a leg broken.
They taunted the actor with his vanity in believing that his fame would descend to posterity.
Some luring devil put into his mouth the cold and sneering words with which he greeted him--the fool-hardy and contemptuous bravado with which he taunted him.
Dick hammered him roundly, and when he could spare the breath taunted him unfeelingly about Nancy, and threatened to lick him to a frazzle right before her loving eyes.
I don't know as you can do the only job that's left," Sube taunted with a triumphant gleam at the immaculate knickerbockers.
Mistrust of self, apprehensions that mocked and taunted her, a certain shrinking from responsibilities so thickly heaped, rushed inevitably to her mind.
And when it passes the point of words" shetaunted him, "what do you do?
Hurry back," taunted the other, "You ort to make about four trips by supper time.
A rustic who had seen the race met the Hound as he was returning, and taunted him with his defeat.
THE OLIVE-TREE AND THE FIG-TREE An Olive-tree taunted a Fig-tree with the loss of her leaves at a certain season of the year.
In all my life, even on the days when Mrs. Carruthers taunted me about mamma being nobody, I have never felt so wretched.
They taunted their Tlascalan allies as women, who would never have dared to approach the capital, without the protection of the white men.
Well," taunted Beausire, triumphantly, "is a sword still disgraced by having been handled by me?
The Babylonians, on the walls of their city, reproached andtaunted their foes incessantly.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "taunted" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
