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jeers
1. The crowd hoots and jeers
2. The crowd hoots and jeers some more
3. So bear with the jeers of your mate and try the experiment
4. He is greeted by jeers and cat calls
5. Some faced jeers and flogging, while still other were chained and put in prison
6. The magician snatched it and told the slave take her choice, among the jeers of the crowd
7. Amid jeers and curses
8. Many times the tear-gas drifted back toward us, much to the jeers and glee of the rioters and producing a few respectful curses from us toward the commissioned officer who had failed to read the wind correctly
9. He still suffered from our comments and jeers
10. This was rewarded with wolf whistles, jeers and some guy who shouted, “Yeah!”
11. Our Dauntless guards lead us to the center of the room, where we are greeted with, at best, murmurs, and at worst, jeers
12. time was that the sounds were now accompanied by muted jeers
13. From various pubs he heard the shouts of fighting and jeers of whores challenging men to prove their worth
14. When I patted him on the shoulder, the crowd erupted in cheers and jeers, but he only heard the jeers
15. Even that didn’t stop the jeers
16. Though I couldn’t see them, at least I felt peace knowing they’d never have to hear the taunts and jeers that come with living in a freakshow
17. Inside the big top, instead of fading, the jeers reached a crescendo
18. Loud cheers and jeers as they waved them in the air tempting Sebastian to try to get them
19. 10 His love for ignorant mortals is fully disclosed by his patience and great self-possession in the face of the jeers, blows, and buffetings of the coarse soldiers and the unthinking servants
20. From the drunken jeers and
21. drunken jeers, rolling down the tinted windows
22. Skepticism mocks, ridicules, jeers
23. As they lined up, the unusual sound of laughter and jeers started to echo all around the room – something rarely heard within this particular area
24. Pockets that clinked and bulged in the mornings could be emptied by early afternoons with the losers earning jeers that rang in their ears long after the bell had been sounded and the school bus had left the station
25. Even so, there were jeers, calls, and curses from a foolish few
26. darkness and would drift back later to be greeted with jeers and laughs by the rest of the crowd
27. And also not having to face the public jeers and laughter of public shame
28. “Some faced jeers and flogging, and even chains and imprisonment
29. I stood there, patiently waiting for what would come next, as the crowd of onlookers shouted obscenities and jeers
30. The sailors broke out into a cheer at their accomplishment, while other sailors leaned over the side of the ship and issued jeers at the unsatisfied group of sea monsters that had congregated in hopes of an easy exotic meal
31. A fresh round of jeers and whistles arose as Akenji approached this larger group of men, and Brien
32. removed from the circle to the laughter and comic jeers of the others
33. He snatched it and bade the slave take her choice, amid the jeers of the crowd
34. sisters watched the building of the box, and then listened to the jeers of the
35. Meantime the news of their arrival had spread, and as they returned through the town they were greeted with jeers and booing
36. Then the brutal minions of the law fell upon the hapless Toad; loaded him with chains, and dragged him from the Court House, shrieking, praying, protesting; across the marketplace, where the playful populace, always as severe upon detected crime as they are sympathetic and helpful when one is merely 'wanted,' assailed him with jeers, carrots, and popular catch-words; past hooting school children, their innocent faces lit up with the pleasure they ever derive from the sight of a gentleman in difficulties; across the hollow-sounding drawbridge, below the spiky portcullis, under the frowning archway of the grim old castle, whose ancient towers soared high overhead; past guardrooms full of grinning soldiery off duty, past sentries who coughed in a horrid, sarcastic way, because that is as much as a sentry on his post dare do to show his contempt and abhorrence of crime; up time-worn winding stairs, past men-at-arms in casquet and corselet of steel, darting threatening looks through their vizards; across courtyards, where mastiffs strained at their leash and pawed the air to get at him; past ancient warders, their halberds leant against the wall, dozing over a pasty and a flagon of brown ale; on and on, past the rack-chamber and the thumbscrew-room, past the turning that led to the private scaffold, till they reached the door of the grimmest dungeon that lay in the heart of the innermost keep
37. ' (Jeers, laughter, and 'Tell us another!' from the back
38. She had smarted under his jeers for a long time, but now she had him where she could make him jump through any hoops she cared to hold
39. She missed him, missed his light flippant touch in anecdotes that made her shout with laughter, his sardonic grin that reduced troubles to their proper proportions, missed even his jeers that stung her to angry retort
40. When Red Death released him at last, he ran away like a very madman, pursued by the jeers of the bystanders
41. The Crowd jeer’d, me Body grew stiff, e’en me Bowels loosen’d an’ me Cock stood up, as if I were a Corpse already, but yet I would not dye—an’ then, just when I thought I could bear the Pain no longer, the Shouts an’ Jeers o’ the Crowd were drown’d out by a horrible buzzin’ Noise that engulf’d me entire Bein’, an’ at the same Time I seem’d to be movin’ thro’ a dark Tunnel, like a Sewer or an underground Cave…
42. Therapontigonus Miles could walk arm in arm with Vadeboncoeur the grenadier, Damasippus the second-hand dealer would be happy among bric-a-brac merchants, Vincennes could grasp Socrates in its fist as just as Agora could imprison Diderot, Grimod de la Reyniere discovered larded roast beef, as Curtillus invented roast hedgehog, we see the trapeze which figures in Plautus reappear under the vault of the Arc of l'Etoile, the sword-eater of Poecilus encountered by Apuleius is a sword-swallower on the Pont Neuf, the nephew of Rameau and Curculio the parasite make a pair, Ergasilus could get himself presented to Cambaceres by d'Aigrefeuille; the four dandies of Rome: Alcesimarchus, Phoedromus, Diabolus, and Argyrippus, descend from Courtille in Labatut's posting-chaise; Aulus Gellius would halt no longer in front of Congrio than would Charles Nodier in front of Punchinello; Marto is not a tigress, but Pardalisca was not a dragon; Pantolabus the wag jeers in the Cafe Anglais at Nomentanus the fast liver, Hermogenus is a tenor in the Champs-Elysees, and round him, Thracius the beggar, clad like Bobeche, takes up a collection; the bore who stops you by the button of your coat in the Tuileries makes you repeat after a lapse of two thousand years Thesprion's apostrophe: Quis properantem me prehendit pallio? The wine on Surene is a parody of the wine of Alba, the red border of Desaugiers forms a balance to the great cutting of Balatro, Pere Lachaise exhales beneath nocturnal rains same gleams as the Esquiliae, and the grave of the poor bought for five years, is certainly the equivalent of the slave's hived coffin
43. He received the eighteen-carat Golden Orchid and kissed it with joy in the midst of the thundering jeers of the incredulous
44. But when the new round of jeers and whistles was over, an impassive Fermina Daza read it again, in her hoarse, suggestive voice, and amazement reigned after the first line
45. The papers had printed that the jibes and jeers were cruel and sometimes obscene, and so they were, but this was not the big show
46. Should recompense his idle jeers,
47. Above all, that we should not part again—that was the chief thing ! As soon as I had to wake up in the morning the jeers and contempt of the boys began again ; one of them actually began beating me and making me put on his boots for him; he called me the vilest
48. He remembered how his brother, while at the university, and for a year afterwards, had, in spite of the jeers of his companions, lived like a monk, strictly observing all religious rites, services, and fasts, and avoiding every sort of pleasure, especially women
49. At sunset, on a lovely summer’s evening, my little old woman passes away—a thought, you will notice, which offers much food for reflection—and behold! instead of tears and prayers to start her on her last journey, she has insults and jeers from a young ensign, who stands before her with his hands in his pockets, making a terrible row about a soup tureen!’ Of course I was to blame, and even now that I have time to look back at it calmly, I pity the poor old thing no less
50. How often did I sing him to sleep when I was half dead with hunger! In short, I was more than a father to him, and now—now he jeers at me! Even if I did cross myself, and pray for the repose of the soul of the Comtesse du Barry, what does it matter? Three days ago, for the first time in my life, I read her biography in an historical dictionary
