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Forty miles off, like a roebuck at bay, Flouts Castle Brancepeth the Roundheads' array: Who laughs, "Good fellows ere this, by my fay," Chorus.—"Boot, saddle, to horse, and away!"

From Browning's England A Study in English Influences in Browning by Clarke, Helen Archibald

Flouts and jeers he had for every man, but a woman, good or bad, was sacred to him.

From Bob, Son of Battle by Ollivant, Alfred

Britain declines negotiating further— Flouts France and Russia indiscriminately.

From The Dynasts by Hardy, Thomas