scoffer

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Scoffer By the time the 14th annual National Air Races were over at Cleveland last week, most observers had decided that U. S. aviation's No. i spectacle was not what it used to be.

From Time Magazine Archive

Scoffer," he said, "you did not realize when you offered me poison that my life is one with your own.

From Autobiography of a Yogi by Yogananda, Paramahansa

Scoffer, no more! stop thy licentious tongue; Turn inward to thy bosom, and reflect— Count.

From The Count of Narbonne A Tragedy, in Five Acts by Jephson, Robert

Scoffer that George was, once he saw with his own eyes, he went to the other extreme, and became firmly convinced.

From The Hickory Ridge Boy Scouts: Under Canvas or, The Hunt for the Cartaret Ghost by Douglas, Alan

London 1675, under the title of the Scoffer Scoff'd.

From The Lives of the Poets of Great Britain and Ireland (1753) Volume III by Cibber, Theophilus