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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

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