Nor was the fact that his visits had become a sort of town scandal without its charm for a man who actually pined for a sensation, even though painful; and there was, too, an impertinence that, while declining the society of the supposed upper classes of the neighborhood, he found congenial companionship with these humble people, had a marvellous attraction for a man who had no small share of resentfulness in his nature, and was seldom so near being happy as when Flouting some prejudice or outraging some popular opinion.
"That Boy Of Norcott's"
Charles James Lever
Therefore another week saw unsubstantial suspicion waning; scoffs had their day and died of inanition; and the boy's high-hearted Flouting of a hard imposition annulled its rigour.
"The Unknown Sea"
Clemence Housman
The boy's self-abasement, his misery, his Flouting of his own weakness were not altogether the result of maudlin reaction.
"From the Housetops"
George Barr McCutcheon