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)

He had discussed everything under heaven in his brilliant, erratic way, with a fleer of cynicism toward it all, but he had left himself out completely.

From O. Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories of 1920 by Various

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 Housman, Clemence

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

O he has doen him to his ha' To make him bierly cheer, An' in it came a griesly ghost Steed stappin' i' the fleer.

From Poetry of the Supernatural by Various