What is "scorner"

Usage examples of "scorner".

Hick Scorner immediately brings that redoubtable gentleman upon the stage, possibly slightly the worse for liquor, seeing that his first words are those of one on a ship at sea.

At this precise instant, however, old Pity, who has remained unnoticed, and who is unwarned by the fate of Hick Scorner, pushes forward with an idea of intervention.

As Hick Scorner never returns, the double conversion brings the play to a close.

Hick Scorner were shackled together in Newgate without money to pay for an upper room, how brazen-faced his lies were, how near he was to hanging, how ingenious were his excuses, and many other facts besides.

Better than all measures Of delightful sound, Better than all treasures That in books are found, Thy skill to poet were, thou scorner of the ground!

His heart with words,--but what his judgement bade Would do, and leave the scorner unrelieved.

Though his life had been absorbed in the pursuit of solid gain, he was no scorner of the attainments which lay beyond his own scope, and in these latter years, now that the fierce struggle was decided in his favour, he often gave proof of a liberal curiosity.

Gilbert was neither an unbeliever nor a scorner, and he stood his ground confidently.

His lordship, this Englishman, Lord of London, Scorner of Ireland, Suppressor of France, has quitted his governments, and left his enemies to breathe for a moment, and has crossed the broad waters in strict disguise, with a small but eternally faithful retinue of followers, in order that he might look upon the bright countenance of the Pasha among Pashas - the Pasha of the everlasting Pashalik of Karagholookoldour.

Robson, the scorner of the female sex, was not above the foppery of stays.

She, the scorner of all around her, now envied the innocence of the very meanest of her companions.

The minister was patently rebellious and self-willed, a scorner of the yoke of Kirk and Word.

Reiverslaw, always a scorner of precedents, kept his sheep on the hills, where the pasture was as rich as in summer-time.

The thinker, the scorner, stood on the verge of the rocks above the illuminated sea, his head bare, his coat stripped off.

The people amid whom she lived were all but avowed scorners of her belief, and yet she was beginning to like their society.