We surround ourselves with fifty Mockeries of home-life; we can manage soft carpets, warm curtains, snug dinners, but somehow our cup of tea is a rude imitation that only depicts the inaccuracy of the copy.
"The Martins Of Cro' Martin, Vol. II (of II)"
Charles James Lever
Except as the bitterest of Mockeries, I had never been engaged to any woman but herself, for only that old horrible poverty and despair of mine had been the cause of my playing a trick with more of the falsely theatrical about it than of real life-the deliberate engaging of myself to one woman as a means to getting another.
"The Debit Account"
Oliver Onions
And Ireland even in this generation, hypnotized as most of her people are by catch cries about 'imperilling Home Rule,' by Mockeries of all 'wild' politics and 'wild' plans, by doctrines even more debasing in their shameless lying than O'Connell's, Ireland has answered the call."
"The Evolution of Sinn Fein"
Robert Mitchell Henry