Even more biting were his taunts at Ministers for seeking to stamp out the discontent which their injustice and violence had created.
Without saying more at this time, please accept my best wishes, and be assured of my co-operation and willingness to share with you all the jeers and taunts of sceptics or obstinate bigots.
Straight the black clarion sends a horrid sound, Loud laughs burst out, and bitter scoffs fly round, Whispers are heard, with taunts reviling loud, And scornful hisses run through all the crowd.
Whenever she roused her husband to a state of bellicose ire by her taunts she could always reduce him again by her tears.
Being well aware of this he would bear the taunts as long as he could, knowing that the tears would be still worse.
Devil, and becomes an arch-fiend in order to avenge himself for the taunts of strangers on the deformity of his person" (see Gent.
He had been stung to the quick by his mother's taunts and his sweetheart's ridicule, by the jeers of the base and thoughtless, by slanderous and brutal paragraphs in newspapers.
Terence must humble himself to bear meekly the taunts of Lord Glandore, content in that he was doing his duty.
Gillin's taunts had shrivelled her soul like branding-irons.
But the young man refuses to believe him, and taunts him with cowardice and guile in trying to put him off his guard.
Athenians, I both have better title than others to the post of commander,—for the taunts of Nikias force me to begin here,—and I count myself fully worthy of it.
Slashing, slaying, and hurlingtaunts and gibes at the routed French the English came on a run.
The English hooted and jeered at these words, and hurled taunts and foul epithets upon her, and having given her last summons Jeanne returned to the city.
This roused the rage of the French, and thereafter no quarter was asked or given in the skirmishes that ensued when parties of the English sallied out in answer to the jibes and taunts of the French.
Victims were frequently shot through the head by too eager or unskilful hands, and it often occurred that, exasperated by the fortitude and taunts of the prisoner, death was dealt intentionally in a moment of ungovernable irritation.
Gertrude the leman taunts him and he rounds on her, and yet he could not "raise his hand against this insulting atomy, he, who had been famed for having in ten years seven of the most beautiful lemans in Christendom.
She gets jealous lest he should still hanker after his early love, and she taunts him with it.
Ned was stung by his taunts and replied: "You forget Houston.
The Mexican cavalry rode on either side of them, and many of the horsemen were not above uttering taunts which, fortunately, few of the prisoners could understand.
But there is a solitude of the earth that is more awful; in it Death taunts you with his presence, yet delays to strike.
But then," he reasoned, "he paid well for histaunts and teasing.
But Master Kilspinnie fain would have continued his biting taunts to the mistress, who was enacting a most tragical extravagance of affliction and terror.
Boone's passin' by as Yuba lets fly his taunts an' this piece of ordnance is in easy reach.
Silver Phil, who's full of wrath at the taunts of the departed gyard, slips his hands free of the irons.
They seemed to be repressing taunts or reproaches merely in consideration of the fact that he was holding the purse-strings.
I want no tauntslater that I led you on into a trap.
My face is meeter for the spit; I am more suitable to shame, And to the taunts of scornful wit: It's no great matter for my name.
Your eyes are dauntless flames of bliss Though Modred tauntsyou with his hate:-- "This god or king, is He more strong Than Modred is?
The villains triced us firmly with thongs of skin, and sat us up against the bank like so many puppets, dancing about before us, snapping their dirty fingers in our faces, and treating us to all manner of taunts and insults.
They did it with the butts of their guns, laughing at the brandished knives and tomahawks and the fierce painted faces that scowled at them, paying no apparent heed to the taunts and insults showered from every side.
Miamis, already shrinking from the tauntsof the gathering braves.
The taunts of Long Jim were too much, and a dozen dusky forms sprang from the undergrowth and rushed up the slope.
It was the way of the woods, and these taunts stung the red men to the quick.
Long Jim continued his taunts for some time, speaking both Shawnee and Miami, and also a little Wyandot and Delaware.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "taunts" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
