fleer

Example Sentences

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Then out it speaks the king himsell,85 And aye as he steps in the fleer; Says, "I grant you your life, lady, Because you are of tender year."

From English and Scottish Ballads (volume 3 of 8) by Various

At any rate, that strutting chanticleer, with his two meagre wives and one wizened chicken, is a sly side fleer at the tragic aspect of the law of descent.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 31, May, 1860 by Various

Then, the foolish people, they looke, they stare, they laugh, they fleer, and mount upon fourmes and pewes, to see these goodly pageants solemnized in this sort.

From A Righte Merrie Christmasse The Story of Christ-Tide by Behrend, Arthur C.

For, fleer as aliens would, this was the Awakening of the Red Dragon.

From Mushroom Town by Onions, Oliver

Well, there’s been a board doon on the fleer for ages o’ man, and to-day it was taken out to be scrubbit, and what think ye was reveeled?”

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