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taunt

Nautical (of the mast or masts of a sailing vessel) unusually tall
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I thought, where folk differed, it was the part of gentlemen to differ civilly; and if I did not, I may tell you I could find a better taunt than some of yours."
The atheistic taunts of his cruel master sunk his before dejected soul to the lowest ebb; and, though the hand of faith still held to the eternal rock, it was a numb, despairing grasp.
That submissive and silent man, whom taunts, nor threats, nor stripes, nor cruelties, could disturb, roused a voice within him, such as of old his Master roused in the demoniac soul, saying, "What have we to do with thee, thou Jesus of Nazareth?--art thou come to torment us before the time?"
The apes, watching the grim race from the safety of the trees, screamed taunts at Numa and warnings to Tarzan.
He was very savage indeed; but his despoilers were well out of his reach, and after hurling a few taunts and missiles at him they swung away through the trees, fiercely reviling him.
There was nothing but dead twigs and branches at hand, but these he flung at the upturned, snarling face of Sabor just as his father had before him twenty years ago, when as a boy he too had taunted and tantalized the great cats of the jungle.
During the entire battle both sides hurled taunts and insults at one another--the human beings naturally excelling the brutes in the coarseness and vileness of their vilification and invective.
They coiled and threw their fiber-ropes; they hurled taunts and insults at an imaginary foe; they fell upon the carcass of the thag and literally tore it to pieces; and they ceased only when, gorged, they could no longer move.
PBA commissioner Willie Marcial took a firm position in sanctioning San Miguel Beer's Arwind Santos for his sideline monkey taunt aimed at clouding TNT import Terrence Jones' focus in Game 5 of the recently-concluded Commissioner's Cup finals.
During grilling, the held woman 'confessed' to have killed her husband as he used to taunt her 'for not giving birth to any child'.
Inspector Julie Hillman said: "Having members of the public taunt somebody who is clearly in a distressed state as we did today is completely unacceptable."
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