fleer

Example Sentences

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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

Then, the foolish people, they looke, they stare, they laugh, they fleer, and mount upon fourmes and pewes, to see these goodly pageants solemnized in this sort.

From A Righte Merrie Christmasse The Story of Christ-Tide by Behrend, Arthur C.

She gave a light laugh that had in it so little mirth, was so little apposite to ridicule, that he did not feel it a fleer.

From The Storm Centre by Murfree, Mary Noailles

Perhaps there was some truth in Betty's fleer, of her never having known any better company than that of the village apothecary.

From Doctor Cupid by Broughton, Rhoda

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)