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

"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

Why didst thou fleer at our Friend, who feigned himself asleep? he said nothing, but how dost thou know what he containeth?

From A Century of English Essays An Anthology Ranging from Caxton to R. L. Stevenson & the Writers of Our Own Time by Rhys, Ernest

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