All 9 Uses of
mock
in
The Picture of Dorian Gray - 13 chapter version
- It will mock me some day,—mock me horribly!†
Chpt 2 *
- It will mock me some day,—mock me horribly!†
Chpt 2
- Once, in boyish mockery of Narcissus, he had kissed, or feigned to kiss, those painted lips that now smiled so cruelly at him.†
Chpt 6
- He mocked the misshapen body and the failing limbs.†
Chpt 9
- In a chapter of the book he tells how, crowned with laurel, lest lightning might strike him, he had sat, as Tiberius, in a garden at Capri, reading the shameful books of Elephantis, while dwarfs and peacocks strutted round him and the flute-player mocked the swinger of the censer; and, as Caligula, had caroused with the green-shirted jockeys in their stables, and supped in an ivory manger with a jewel-frontleted horse; and, as Domitian, had wandered through a corridor lined with marble…†
Chpt 9
- …the spectacle of death, and who had a passion for red blood, as other men have for red wine,—the son of the Fiend, as was reported, and one who had cheated his father at dice when gambling with him for his own soul; Giambattista Cibo, who in mockery took the name of Innocent, and into whose torpid veins the blood of three lads was infused by a Jewish doctor; Sigismondo Malatesta, the lover of Isotta, and the lord of Rimini, whose effigy was burned at Rome as the enemy of God and man,…†
Chpt 9
- A bitter laugh of mockery broke from the lips of the younger man.†
Chpt 10
- You mock at everything, and then suggest the most serious tragedies.†
Chpt 13
- Or the desire of a new sensation, as Lord Henry had hinted, with his mocking laugh?†
Chpt 13