Lexicographical Neighbors of Jeerings
Literary usage of Jeerings
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc by Mark Twain (1896)
"... worse and harder to bear ; for they ridiculed her, and mocked at her, and
ceased neither day nor night from their witticisms and jeerings and laughter. ..."
2. The Jesuit Relations and Allied Documents: Travels and Explorations of the by Reuben Gold Thwaites, Jesuits (1898)
"... do not believe will mock us, but their jeerings must not prevent us from
atoning for our offenses. ' ' That said, he draws forth a great whip; ..."
3. The Writings of Mark Twain [pseud.] by Mark Twain, Charles Dudley Warner (1896)
"... worse and harder to bear; for they ridiculed her, and mocked at her, and ceased
neither day nor night from their witticisms and jeerings and laughter. ..."
4. Publications by Scottish History Society, Dorset Record Society (1907)
"... are to be treated with reverence, and not subjected to derision and jeerings
Of purgatory after this life.—Article Fourth : We must firmly believe that ..."
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