"Jeer" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... Forgetful of his glory and his name, Forgetful of his princedom and its cares. And this forgetfulness was hateful to her. And by and by the people, when they met In twos and threes, or fuller companies, Began to scoff and jeer and babble of him As of a prince whose manhood was all gone, And molten down in mere uxoriousness. And this she gather'd from the people's eyes: This too the women who attired her head, To please her, dwelling on his boundless love, Told Enid, ...
— Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 5 • Charles Sylvester
... jeer at Olaf," said Steinar, "for when he is stung with words he does mad things. Don't you remember what happened when your father called him 'niddering' last year because Olaf said it was not just to attack the ship of those British men who had been driven to our ...
— The Wanderer's Necklace • H. Rider Haggard
... with the successful insolence of victory, ventured to jeer him on the supposed reason for his ...
— Sylvia's Lovers, Vol. II • Elizabeth Gaskell
... They may cough and jeer, and groan in Parliament, and call me fool and madman, but which of them can raise this human sea and make it swell and roar ...
— Barnaby Rudge • Charles Dickens
... man who has lost his way, brings him back to the right path—he does not mock and jeer at him and then take himself off. You also must show the unlearned man the truth, and you will see that he will follow. But so long as you do not show it him, you should not mock, but ...
— The Golden Sayings of Epictetus • Epictetus
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