fleer
Example Sentences
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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 S. C. (Stephen Cullen) Carpenter
Maria, a fleer at mere ponderosity, skipped and whisked from left to right with fay-like airiness of foot until a thrill of delight went through the camp.
From Tropic Days by E. J. (Edmund James) Banfield
For, fleer as aliens would, this was the Awakening of the Red Dragon.
From Mushroom Town by Oliver Onions
And cannot I likewise, when time serves, and company is disposed to be kindly affected with it, smile and fleer as takingly?
From History of English Humour, Vol. 1 With an Introduction upon Ancient Humour by Alfred Guy Kingan L'Estrange
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 Clemence Housman
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