fleer

Example Sentences

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The reader who studies every line should not fleer at him who studies not at all.

From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 099, March, 1876 by Various

They mock and fleer at us sons of honest toil.

From The Motor Girls in the Mountains or, The Gypsy Girl's Secret by Penrose, Margaret

But there, you will, and your sisters will have something to fleer and jeer at then, and your father will purr in my face, and spit and swear behind my back.

From Mad A Story of Dust and Ashes by Fenn, George Manville

Ah! would you fleer me! his lordship among revellers! oh! the blest prodigy! well, well, I give no promise, mark; but should a certain damsel lack a partner, adod.

From The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor Volume I, Number 1 by Carpenter, S. C. (Stephen Cullen)

Yes, Abner, but thus soon to yield,   Neighbours would fleer, and look behind 'em; Though, with a husband in the field,   Perhaps, indeed, I should not mind 'em.

From Wild Flowers Or, Pastoral and Local Poetry by Bloomfield, Robert