fleer
Example Sentences
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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 S. C. (Stephen Cullen) Carpenter
For, fleer as aliens would, this was the Awakening of the Red Dragon.
From Mushroom Town by Oliver Onions
But as she passed through the portal down the steps of the turret, she flung back certain words with a defiant fleer.
From The Black Douglas by Frank Richards
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 Robert Bloomfield
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 George Manville Fenn
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