| 1. | I scoff at your perfections, excellencies, and qualities. - from Les Miserables by Victor Hugo |
| 2. | "I will die," he said, "rather than wear the three frogs upon my heart" He liked to scoff aloud at Louis XVIII. - from Les Miserables by Victor Hugo |
| 3. | And they shall scoff at the kings, and the princes shall be a scorn unto them they shall deride every strong hold for they shall heap dust, and take it. - from The King James Bible |
| 4. | A second tale, _Ephesiaca_, is the story of a man and a maid, each of whom scoffs at love. - from English Literature by William J. Long |
| 5. | These beings also lived with shorn heads, with downcast eyes, with lowered voices, not in disgrace, but amid the scoffs of the world, not with their backs bruised with the cudgel, but with their shoulders lacerated with their discipline. - from Les Miserables by Victor Hugo |