jeepers
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"Restez tranquilles," he says to the jeerers, with expressive and emphatic forefinger leveled at the group.
From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 15, No. 90, June, 1875 by Various
People called them the jeerers or sneerers, because they did not stick at anything.
From The Possessed (The Devils) by Dostoyevsky, Fyodor
In the second number is a full-page cut, in which Beecher is depicted as standing before a crowd of jeerers prior to being placed in the stocks, with the scarlet letter "A" upon his breast.
From Concerning Lafcadio Hearn With a Bibliography by Laura Stedman by Gould, George M. (George Milbrey)
Starkad replied that he used in old days to chastise jeerers, and that the insolent had never insulted him unpunished.
From The Danish History, Books I-IX by Saxo, Grammaticus
‘Victory over such unkind jeerers would be sweet,’ said Lady Caroline.
From A Group of Noble Dames by Hardy, Thomas
