fleer

Example Sentences

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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 Banfield, E. J. (Edmund James)

"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

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

I have heard One of your Council fleer and jeer at him.

From Queen Mary and Harold by Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, Baron

To flewer or fleer is to smile in that grinning manner which shows all the teeth.

From It Might Have Been The Story of the Gunpowder Plot by Irwin, M. (Madelaine)