Word: taunting
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...mother could taunt thus savagely, the attitude of the Court may be imagined. Little Wilhelm, brilliant, neurotic, effeminate, afraid, was driven to wrench up the very roots of his personality. He would show them! He did. After a purgatory of physical suffering he learned to use his withered arm, to ride, to swagger and to bluster-though he drank little, and did not, says Herr Ludwig, acquire the manly art of "talking bawdy." At last, even grizzled old Wilhelm I, his grandfather, said of his horsemanship at maneuvers, "Well done! I could never have believed you could...
Edward of Wales, irrepressible, does not conceal from Viscount Lascelles his satisfaction that the latter must await his father's death to become an earl. From this unspoken taunt springs the dislike between them which is common knowledge. Therefore, last week, British clubmen cackled loudly at a mot which Lord Lascelles was said to have made anent the London slumming exploits of Edward of Wales: "One would think he got near enough to the dirt at Melton Mowbray [the hunting centre where Edward has so often fallen off his horse into...
...giving up the man I love to marry you because you are responsible for my present condition.' ... A man named Hilton it was. ... It wasn't lasting, however, because she later became violently in love with a boy named Ernie Tumbler. . . . Now and then she would taunt me, 'I don't get a kick out of being married to you.' . . . And then-I suppose it was in an effort to justify her conduct with Tumbler-she started telling her friends I was a degenerate...
Last scene of all is laid in Dumfries, as the gallant spirit wavers in a body only 37 years old. Holy Willie comes to taunt him, chanting...
...threats. We leave that to him. But freedom will come, even into the last fastness of reaction. Neither Mr. Vauclain, Mr. Gary, nor any other autocrat can forever drive slaves on a tyrant's terms in the Republic of the United States. He does poorly to fling his brutal taunt into the faces of American manhood. The late George Baer once said that captains of industry were God's trustees. General Bell once said: ' To hell with the Constitution.' Mr. Vauclain seems to have combined their formulas...