scoffings

A hard town for "scoffings," was what the hoboes called it at that time.

Confession 2010

"When the 'scoffings' were finally ready, I wasn't in what you might exactly call a mollyfying and tactful mood nor exuding genialness and enthusiasms anyways noticeable."

Pardners Rex Ellingwood Beach 1913

A hard town for "scoffings," was what the hoboes called it at that time.

My Life in the Underworld - A Reminiscence and a Confession 1907

A hard town for "scoffings," was what the hoboes called it at that time.

Confession 1907

A hard town for "scoffings," was what the hoboes called it at that time.

Confession 1907

I haven't had black hair since I was about 19, not true black, as certain ex-family members thought it looked terrible, so I'm both pleased at the new color and plagued by sudden remembrances of old scoffings at my hair.

All Things Yesteryear yuki_onna 2007

Johnson, of fat bishops and drowsy deans; and, in short, seemed to believe the illiberal and profane scoffings of professed satyrists, or vulgar railers.

Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides 2006

Not that I impute these profane scoffings unto the church itself, — which I shall never do until it be discovered that the rulers of it do give approbation to such abominations; but I would mind the man of his relation to that church, which, to my knowledge, teacheth better learning and manners.

Of Communion with God the Father, Son and Holy Ghost 1616-1683 1965

The animosity of his enemies was such that they followed his remains with scoffings and insults on its way to the grave.

The Abolitionists Together With Personal Memories Of The Struggle For Human Rights

He believed that independence was the first duty of a literary man, and that true dignity consists in diligent labor rather than in indolent railing at fate and the scoffings of "uncomprehended" genius.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 74, December, 1863 Various