The same theme concludes the work where it blasts out almost jeeringly at menacing full tone. |
Mrs. Sweet's children jeeringly rejoice when their father informs them that deer have eaten all the tulips their mother planted the previous autumn. |
They told him, jeeringly, that the parson had treated them with some wine. |
They were all drunk, and asked me jeeringly if this was the way to Dunure. |
The latter, whenever he wished to be merry, used jeeringly to ask Lady Gaunt why her father had not come to see her. |
He asks the moneylender what gold tastes like, and the Prince of Darkness replies jeeringly that it is like cake with whipped cream: later we learn that Faust's mother died of choking on cream-cake. |