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She had indeed admitted his visits and listened, at any rate without anger, to his love, but she had tortured him and reviled him, jeered at him and ridiculed him, while she allowed him to call her the most beautiful of living women, to kiss her hand, and to proclaim himself with reiterated oaths her adorer, her slave and worshipper.
We fell to haggling; Filofey at first was stubborn; then he began to come down, but slowly. 'Ugh, you Filofey! you're a regular Filofey! Yermolai jeered at last and he went out, slamming the door angrily.
You who are young and healthy might easily get vermin, and be jeered at by the whole town; such a thing would never be tolerated in any one who wants to get on. At the worst you can do a little washing or yourself; you could go down to the shore in the evening, if that was all!" "Do they wear wooden shoes in the town?" asked Pelle. "Not people who want to get on!
He was, however, very sick, while he arrived at the conclusion that the tender's hold, the dark prison in which he found himself, was a most horrible place. Several of his more heartless companions jeered at him in his misery; and, indeed, poor Bill, thin and pale, shoeless and hatless, clad in patched garments, looked a truly miserable object.
He saw the frank disgust in Lawler's eyes, and the desire to drive it out, to make the man betray some sign of the perturbation that must be in him, drove Warden to an indiscretion. "You're a wise guy, Lawler," he jeered. "A minute ago you hinted that this thing was being engineered by a bunch of cheap crooks. Call them what you like. They're out to break you understand?
The trial was presided over by Mr Justice Monkhouse, one of those who are jeered at as humorous judges, but who are generally much more serious than the serious judges, for their levity comes from a living impatience of professional solemnity; while the serious judge is really filled with frivolity, because he is filled with vanity.
"Why'n't you tell us what FOR, then?" Sam insisted. Roddy's glance at this persecutor was one of anguish. "I know my own biz'nuss!" he muttered. And while Sam jeered, Roddy turned to Penrod desperately. "You gimme that horn back! I got to have it." But Penrod followed Sam's lead. "Well, why can't you tell us what FOR?" he asked.
Ma-aa-a-a!" jeered Big Medicine. "You'll wisht, by cripes, you was a dozen men just like yuh before you're through with the deal. Haw-haw-haw-w!" There were others who, seeing Andy's grin, had something to say upon the subject before they left. Weary rode up, and looked undecidedly from Andy to the sheep, and back again. "If you don't feel like tackling it single-handed, I'll send "
There is no sorrow, nor any sighing, Nor any tears there, nor any dying..., I'm a pilgrim, and I'm a stranger, I can tarry I can tarry but a night." At a long distance they shot at Conway, they hooted, jeered, cursed him, but dared not come closer, for he had breast-worked himself behind some cotton-bales in the yard, and they knew he could still shoot.
"Don't let him get away without seeing the laundry, mother," her son jeered at a final air of absent-mindedness in her, and she defiantly accepted his challenge. "Jeff's mad because he wasn't consulted," she explained, "and because we don't run the house like his one-horse European hotels." "Oh, I'm not in it at all, Mr. Westover," said the young fellow. "I'm as much a passenger as you are.
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