"Fleer" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... to yield, Neighbours would fleer, and look behind 'em; Though, with a husband in the field, Perhaps, indeed, I ...
— Wild Flowers - Or, Pastoral and Local Poetry • Robert Bloomfield
... cause of laughter as now, never so many fools and madmen. 'Tis not one [257]Democritus will serve turn to laugh in these days; we have now need of a "Democritus to laugh at Democritus;" one jester to flout at another, one fool to fleer at another: a great stentorian Democritus, as big as that Rhodian Colossus, For now, as [258]Salisburiensis said in his time, totus mundus histrionem agit, the whole world plays the fool; we have a new theatre, a new scene, a new comedy of errors, a new company of personate actors, ...
— The Anatomy of Melancholy • Democritus Junior
... that he had told us practically not a word. He had discussed everything under heaven in his brilliant, erratic way, with a fleer of cynicism toward it all, but he had left himself out completely. He had given us Farquharson with relish, and in infinite detail, from the time the poor fellow first turned up in Muloa, put ashore by a native craft. Talking about ...
— O. Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories of 1920 • Various |
