But it was one thing to hold up their heads at the shanty, and quite another to hold them up on the noisy, swarming campus where they knew nobody, and where the ill-bred bullies of the school felt free to jeer and gibe at their poor clothing and their shy, awkward ways.
"The Widow O'Callaghan's Boys"
Gulielma Zollinger
The other two would laugh and Howard-Jones would add some strained gibe, with the flat effect that forced wit always has.
"With Edge Tools"
Hobart Chatfield-Taylor
Mr. W. S. Gilbert, according to a world-travelled newspaper paragraph, let off the gibe at his friend Mr. Burnand.
"The History of "Punch""
M. H. Spielmann