The Duke turned a scornful smile on her as she spoke, but she continued boldly,-"Last night I dreamed of this, and that I saw you, mangled and bloody, upon the ground, while a rude mob stood around, gazing at you with scoffs and jeers."
"The Prime Minister"
W.H.G. Kingston
There is a prevalent theory of human sinfulness which unconsciously scoffs at the appeals of the gospel, striving indeed to influence me by love, gratitude, admiration for the Perfect One, and desire to be like Him, by the hope of holiness and the shame of vileness, but telling me at the same time that I have no sympathies whatever except with evil.
"The Expositor's Bible: The Book of Exodus"
G. A. Chadwick
There has been enough and to spare of shrieks or scoffs.
"Holbein"
Beatrice Fortescue