"Scoffer" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... not that Don Federico, the young advocate, well known in the coffee-houses as a virulent Exaltado, a determined scoffer, a ...
— Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 379, May, 1847 • Various
... seen rippling like sunshine on the sea of faces spreading away from the shore of the pulpit steps. When he spoke of hell and its terrors, which was frequently and with thrilling descriptive, even so hardened a scoffer as Japheth Pettigrass was wont to declare that you could hear the crackling of the flames and the cries of ...
— The Quickening • Francis Lynde
... the progress it would make. It comes, too, most triumphant. No faith before it ever took so victorious a stand in its infancy. It has swept like a hurricane of fire through the land, compelling faith from the baffled scoffer ...
— The United States in the Light of Prophecy • Uriah Smith
... bitter attacks. That he might obtain Christian burial, he confessed and received absolution from the Abbe Gaultier; but, with his views, this was simply a sacrifice to the proprieties; he remained a heathen poet to the end, a born satirist and scoffer at ...
— Historical Tales, Vol. 6 (of 15) - The Romance of Reality. French. • Charles Morris
... because in the midst of the world I know how to wear the mask of a scoffer upon my face; and yet, how many a time at the sight of a cemetery by moonlight have I not asked myself whether it were not better to join ...
— Madame Bovary • Gustave Flaubert
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