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Examples
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He waved his hand to her in a heartbreak of bemocked and benighted tenderness and closed the door.
We Can't Have Everything Rupert Hughes 1914
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After an experience which had besmirched every ideal and bemocked every faith, the young Frenchman's talk had carried the lad once more into the full tide of poetry and romance.
The History of David Grieve Humphry Ward 1885
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Buffalmacco saw, besides, a long line of other folks he had befooled, cajoled, cozened and bemocked.
The Well of Saint Clare Anatole France 1884
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And died bemocked and smitten; and he deemed it worser than well
The Story of Sigurd the Volsung and the Fall of the Niblungs William Morris 1865
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Grim then waxed Atli bemocked, yet he pondered a little while,
The Story of Sigurd the Volsung and the Fall of the Niblungs William Morris 1865
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Minister of fate against the great criminal, it joins itself with the "incensed seas and shores" -- the sword that layeth at it cannot hold, and may "with bemocked-at stabs as soon kill the still-closing waters, as diminish one dowle that is in its plume."
The Crown of Wild Olive also Munera Pulveris; Pre-Raphaelitism; Aratra Pentelici; The Ethics of the Dust; Fiction, Fair and Foul; The Elements of Drawing John Ruskin 1859
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Have we not seen him disappointed, bemocked of Destiny, through long years?
Sartor Resartus, and On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History Thomas Carlyle 1838
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