fleer

Example Sentences

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

From Mushroom Town by Onions, Oliver

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.

They mock and fleer at us sons of honest toil.

From The Motor Girls in the Mountains or, The Gypsy Girl's Secret by Penrose, Margaret

Yes, Abner, but thus soon to yield,   Neighbours would fleer, and look behind 'em; Though, with a husband in the field,   Perhaps, indeed, I should not mind 'em.

From Wild Flowers Or, Pastoral and Local Poetry by Bloomfield, Robert