In school, some black children taunt others for "acting white" if they study, get good marks and speak standard English.
But the children did not taunt him or shout at him as they should for he carried a little cloud of fear about with him.
He writes about how children would taunt him: "Look at him, he's playing with dolls.
According to those who remember the period, the many children in the street regarded her as a figure of fun, and taunted her.
She was expelled from her previous high school because a child taunted her and she hit him with a book.
Most of these persons thought him half-witted, and their children taunted hint, but he had a duty.
Once in a while another child will taunt my son for not attending school, and this hurts.
Sometimes children from other classes, those presumably not so intellectually gifted, would tease and taunt us.
She started walking, much as she had that day when the children had taunted her.