Into these lines Field managed to throw all the exulting fanaticism of the hopeless bibliomaniac without suppressing one jot of the chuckle of the profane scoffer.
"Eugene Field, A Study In Heredity And Contradictions"
Slason Thompson
He might be a scoffer like Nero, or a spiritually-minded Stoic like M. Aurelius, an Isiac devotee like Commodus, or devoted to the Syrian worships like the Oriental princes of the third century.
"Roman Society from Nero to Marcus Aurelius"
Samuel Dill
I beg your pardon, Mr. Crane; I am inexperienced, but I assure you I am not a scoffer.
"The Come Back"
Carolyn Wells