Word: mock
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...moments before we separate to take our places in the world as men? The costumes which this exercise compels us to don are often quaint, if not handsome, and at least offer some relief to the eye from the dress-suits worn the rest of the day. The mock affection of the embraces can hardly be called a deception, since no one supposes that the number of our friends is to be counted by the number of our embraces; and a for the nonsense of the proceeding, the truth of the well known rhyme about "a little nonsense...
...Mock not and rail...
...mock the holy pangs of love...
Then adamant rock shall my firmness but mock...
Served but to mock me with its shade...