"So you've been feeling in your bones that something awful was going to happen," he gibingly observed.
"The Gray Phantom's Return"
Herman Landon
Let them assemble: and on a safer Iudgement, All reuoke your ignorant election: Enforce his Pride, And his old Hate vnto you: besides, forget not With what Contempt he wore the humble Weed, How in his Suit he scorn'd you: but your Loues, Thinking vpon his Seruices, tooke from you Th' apprehension of his present portance, Which most gibingly, vngrauely, he did fashion After the inueterate Hate he beares you Brut.
"Coriolanus"
Shakespeare, William
For he had already been driven by egotistic governments from several of his commanding positions, and people were gibingly asking whether the new political gospel was being preached only as a foil for backslidings.
"The Inside Story Of The Peace Conference"
Emile Joseph Dillon