fleer

Example Sentences

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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

"Durn my boots ef I didn't furgit the password!" cried Nick Peters with his little falsetto laugh, that seemed keyed for a fleer, although it was most graciously modulated now.

From The Mystery of Witch-Face Mountain and Other Stories by Murfree, Mary Noailles

By a mile of engirding sea the prospect of escape looked so vain that one joined assent with a fleer.

From The Unknown Sea by Housman, Clemence

He is rather inclined to fleer at any pretension to American club life of earlier date.

From Fifth Avenue by Maurice, Arthur Bartlett

It was half open, and the moon’s licht danced in on the fleer.

From From Squire to Squatter A Tale of the Old Land and the New by Stables, Gordon