All 7 Uses of
mock
in
Jane Eyre
- And Miss Ingram had looked down at her with a mocking air, and exclaimed, "Oh, what a little puppet!"†
Chpt 17 *
- It turns from me; it will not suffer further scrutiny; it seems to deny, by a mocking glance, the truth of the discoveries I have already made, — to disown the charge both of sensibility and chagrin: its pride and reserve only confirm me in my opinion.†
Chpt 19
- What creature was it, that, masked in an ordinary woman's face and shape, uttered the voice, now of a mocking demon, and anon of a carrion-seeking bird of prey?†
Chpt 20
- I was silent: I thought he mocked me.†
Chpt 23
- To tell me that I had already a wife is empty mockery: you know now that I had but a hideous demon.†
Chpt 27
- But I always woke and found it an empty mockery; and I was desolate and abandoned — my life dark, lonely, hopeless — my soul athirst and forbidden to drink — my heart famished and never to be fed.†
Chpt 37
- You mocking changeling — fairy-born and human-bred!†
Chpt 37