fleer
Example Sentences
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But as she passed through the portal down the steps of the turret, she flung back certain words with a defiant fleer.
From The Black Douglas by Frank Richards
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 Gordon Stables
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
They mock and fleer at us sons of honest toil.
From The Motor Girls in the Mountains or, The Gypsy Girl's Secret by Margaret Penrose
Fetch me my rapier, boy:—what, dares the slave Come hither, cover'd with an antic face, To fleer and scorn at our solemnity?
From Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare
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