She would have scoffed at the idea of a formal supper, and packed a picnic to haul off to the nearest fragrant meadow. |
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I'm ashamed to say it now, but in a moment of weakness I scoffed them as the plate swept past me on the way to your table. |
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As if to prove the point, she whipped out a large pile of ham and scoffed the lot. |
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He scoffed at the disparate creeds of religions, each claiming to see the truth through the colored lenses of its own dogmatism. |
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Washed down with brown ale, the British working classes of the late 19th century scoffed 1,200 million a year. |
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The people on the ground in Covington scoffed at George's little junket to Louisiana yesterday. |
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She writes very sensitively about them, and events that could be scoffed at by outsiders are treated openly and honestly. |
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For the record I scoffed a tiny tub of blackcurrant so purple it sent my teeth mauve, and another of gooseberry and elderflower. |
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Kerri's appetite was well and truly back as she scoffed them and talked to Danielle about girly things. |
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Crab risotto and rib-eye steaks are scoffed by families on holiday and hungry yachties. |
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Yet, when we predicted this outcome, you scoffed at our warnings as hysterical ravings. |
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We squatted on the floor and scoffed and then washed it down with sweet milky tea. |
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He scoffed in what was considered a manly scoff and placed his fingers back to the bridge of his nose. |
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She scoffed his direction as she turned her head toward her sandwich once more. |
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On several occasions, in or beside the old boathouse, we scoffed copious amounts of home-made scones, dripping with home-made lemon curd. |
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But he scoffed at conspiracy theories suggesting government, corporations and media conglomerates are in cahoots. |
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Even two centuries ago, Gotthold Ephraim Lessing scoffed that the bard was perhaps more praised than perused. |
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Ms. Aiken scoffed slightly and turned her back on Tristyn to make her way back to the front of the class. |
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Roy scoffed and shook his head quietly as he signaled Steve to arm the weapons. |
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I scoffed as Cale jotted down one line beneath the twenty scratched out ones. |
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I was so exhausted from putting on a smile when I was made fun of and scoffed at by a majority of the class. |
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The dark-haired girl scoffed, shaking a strand of wispily cut hair from her eyes. |
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Tyler scoffed, seeming to take Ox's off the wall remark as a serious question. |
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When I asked a friend if he thought he was able to still be friends with the love of his life because of that very fact, he scoffed at me. |
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Trent scoffed in complete disgust, though he wasn't really thinking about the price of the wine. |
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He scoffed at college, saying that he'd made a lot of money and he hadn't even bothered to finish college. |
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The man scoffed in disgust, and threw the paper away, walking on brusquely. |
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I scoffed at the idea of such a thing when it first struck me, just as many of you are scoffing now. |
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Scientists scoffed at jets, believing they couldn't generate enough thrust to fly. |
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Thousands of fly-by-night operations have long scoffed at inspections, sanctions, and other familiar methods to ensure compliance. |
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To the world and to herself, she was a no-nonsense, practical woman who scoffed at indulgence and spurned luxury. |
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Ten years ago, I would have scoffed at anybody who dared to speak such blasphemy. |
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She had offered to sign a prenuptial before the wedding and Dane had scoffed at the suggestion, refusing to even draw one up. |
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As I don't, I scoffed the lot with a good deal of plain rice for mopping up. |
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They scoffed that he was impossible to partner with because he was dictatorial, and then they clamored to partner with Apple. |
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Chris's eyes strained on the pepper shaker and he scoffed pathetically. |
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He scoffed at its description of Mr. Reyes as candid, calling him a manipulative, untrustworthy person. |
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Lenin scoffed that they would thank executioners for liberating their souls from earthly clay. |
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But he scoffed at the occasional canard that he favoured players of his own religion. |
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She scoffed loudly and threw her hands in the air, clearly annoyed. |
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I scoffed at him, nudging him with my foot, and he lashed out at me. |
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Matt silently scoffed under his breath, not moving from the bed. |
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At the time, North scoffed at the suggestion such a link existed. |
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You can polish it till doomsday,» scoffed Matsu, «you'll never make a mirror out of a brick. |
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Under a bare bulb in his office beside the prison, Olritch Beaubrun, the superintendent of the antiriot police unit, scoffed at this accusation. |
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Mr. Trillin's recipe — pancetta, fontina and prosciutto — would be scoffed at in Rome. |
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The former justice minister and his Liberal colleagues scoffed at the evidence Professor Mauser brought forward. |
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He scoffed at attempts to probe his mind, and was convinced that the medical staff had an unhealthy obsession about enemas. |
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Liverpool continue to be adamant that the Uruguayan is not for sale and have scoffed at the offer made by Arsenal. |
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None of us in the opposition, from what I can tell, would suggest that the laws should be scoffed at. |
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They had in fact scoffed at her to her face and told her she would just have to get used to his behaviour. |
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Some since have scoffed at those words, pointing to great powers, great empires and great conquests. |
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In fact, human rights are still too often disregarded, if not scoffed at, or else they receive only formal recognition. |
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Individual liberties are scoffed at and a repressive police force represses all protest movements. |
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Quebec's opposition leader, Mario Dumont, scoffed at the campaign launch during a visit he paid to a beef farm. |
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Indeed, the legislative legality that he represents and usually defends has been scoffed. |
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Since I have attempted to make my complaint known I have had my opinion scoffed at and disregarded. |
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Some scoffed that what he would get from Hillary would be a rival team, but Hillary has been the very model of collegiality. |
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He scoffed the rest of his appetizer as Wendy made her way to the kitchen. |
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Regardless, I scooped more up from the hive and scoffed them down. |
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We watch through our fingers as another convenience meal is nuked in the microwave, another can of fizzy pop is guzzled, another packet of crisps scoffed. |
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He glanced down at the admiral's stripes adorning his uniform and scoffed. |
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There is hardly any sane human being who can respect and cherish a social union in which his right to freedom of speech and conscience is scoffed at. |
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She invited all my mates to her classroom, where we pinned the tail on the donkey and scoffed down chips and fairy bread and a cake shaped like a witch. |
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And when they do so, they may be laughed at, they may be scoffed at, but when it comes the people will remember, and some will be saved through that witness. |
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He huffed, he scoffed, framing himself as an adult among children. |
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The new distillation method was scoffed at by some Irish distillers, who clung to their traditional pot stills. |
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Let's just hope she overindulged on Canadian pancakes and maple syrup and scoffed a few American-size burgers on her recent Royal tour. |
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No doubt the hacks scoffed at his pomposity. |
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She scoffed at complaints about her vulgar language. |
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Most voyagers had scoffed at warnings from the German embassy published in the New York press and posted at the pier gates not to cross the Atlantic under a belligerent flag. |
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When his uncle scoffed at the idea, Han Xiang performed the impossible before his uncle's eyes: flowers suddenly appeared in bloom from a clod of earth. |
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But the boxes are stamped with a best-before date of the 13th and Valentine's cupcakes made by the same firm should be scoffed by the 12th. |
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He scoffed as Abu Hassar began to roll into this Islamist polemic. |
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Lou Leberti, a 44-year veteran of the vending machine business, scoffed at the notion that such a ban would curb tobacco sales to minors. |
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He had recently visited Berlin, where the German navy had scoffed at how British shells had broken up on their ships' armour. |
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A senior labour Party MP scoffed at what he suggested was faulty logic. |
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Such a suggestion is scoffed at by Shimerians who maintain that they have the will to stave off institutional death. |
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Officials at his residence scoffed at his request to tear up the lawn behind the building, so he began canvassing the neighborhood for some tillable soil. |
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He scoffed at press rumours that he was being barracked by a gang of discharged soldiers. |
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Copiously scoffed and caricatured by the allied press, even if the escapades of his way of life could shock the front fighters, it must be admitted that he was finally a good soldier. |
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A short while ago I asked the minister for an indefinite rate freeze on the ferry run from Nova Scotia to Newfoundland and the minister scoffed at the idea. |
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A policy scoffed at by trendy lefties as simplistic and unlikely. |
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