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They imagined they heard their malicious whispers, their derisive laughter; and it pierced their hearts like the stab of a dagger. At length they had surmounted it at length the palace lay behind them, and they were at least free to pour out in words the agony that consumed them free to be able to break out into bitter execrations, into curses and lamentations.
On one of the strange stunted leafless trees a colony of vagrant crows had perched, eerie enough to seem the denizens of those weird forests; they broke into raucous laughter Haw! haw! haw! rising to a wild commotion of harsh, derisive discord as the men once more gave vent to loud, excited cries.
"And where he goes you will follow." It was as though the wild waters below were chanting it into her ears and thereafter filling the gorge with the mockery of derisive laughter. Slowly, tediously, but with never a sign of hesitation, King made his way up the cliff. He had been here before; he knew and remembered every foothold and handhold.
She was too set on being taught so she could become famous. At first the lodger was all oaths and blows with shouts of fierce, derisive laughter intermingled. "My God!" he would cry. "If Noyes could only see this if he only could!" This Noyes, it appeared, was a man he furiously despised.
Fellow-scholars, this stately Mound is not a sepulcher, it is a monument!" A profound impression was produced by this. But it was interrupted by rude and derisive laughter and the Tumble-Bug appeared. "A monument!" quoth he. "A monument setup by a Mound Builder! Aye, so it is!
"You are a pack of coyotes!" he said and he slammed the door after himself. And so the secret was out! Nothing that had occurred in the Valley for years had stirred the ranchers so deeply. There was much joking and derisive laughter but beneath this was a sense of resentment that grew day by day. Grandma Brown, Peter of course, and Frank Day were sympathetic to the idea.
The troops of Parma, crowding on the palisade, and looking over the parapets, now began to greet the exhibition with peals of derisive laughter. It was but child's play, they thought, to threaten a Spanish army, and a general like Alexander Farnese, with such paltry fire-works as these.
Williams in four volumes, which will tell you all about it. But the name did not mean the middle of the earth, as sometimes claimed, nor is it the foundation of the derisive term applied to China, 'The Central Flowery Nation. "Other names have been given to China, though seldom seen or heard; but Cathay, perhaps coming from the Russian name Kitai, is not at all uncommon, especially in poetry.
It suddenly burst in upon his despair like a shout of derisive laughter. "I'll not marry her!" he cried aloud. "I can't do it!" But even as he spoke he knew that he could, and would, and must. He had been a miserable excuse for a lover to Theresa; but Theresa had never had love.
On the contrary, they watched it with derisive enjoyment, predicting certain failure. After Hannibal Wharton's insult Jim was all for a prompt revenge, but he could not determine just how to use his dangerous knowledge to the best advantage.
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