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As respects religion, alas! the divisions remain here a Mohammedan, there a Christian, yonder a Judean.... From my door I study these men, the children of those in life at my going into exile. Their ardor is not diminished. To kiss a stone in which tradition has planted a saying of God, they will defy the terrors of the Desert, heat, thirst, famine, disease, death.
I not only call upon him to prove them, but I defy him to prove them. It will take something more than superannuated doctors, stolen letters and the performances of a mountebank to do this." This speech, delivered with a sort of frenzied bravado, had a wonderful effect upon Mr. Belcher. He straightened in his chair, and assumed his old air of self-assurance.
'I have William Coxe's "Lock picked at Last," of which I will defy you to find the secret till you have got to the end of it. 'I am a great deal too impatient. 'And Thompson's "Four Marquises." That won't give you any trouble, because you will know it all from the first chapter. 'And never have a moment of excitement from the beginning to the end. I don't think I care very much for novels.
I shall bear testimony to my friend with equal freedom everywhere else; and I will never rest till the wrongs you have done him are repaired as far as reparation is possible." "You take the tone of defiance, I see, Philip. I have not the slightest objection. We defy each other, then."
If I were wholly in his power, he could do with me as he would, and need not trouble about any promises of mine. This led me to defy him still. "Herod Voltaire," I said, "villain by your own admission, I do not believe in your power; but, admitting it for the moment, I still refuse to do what you ask me. You have guessed my secret.
I should be very glad if my little friend Jacqueline were destined to work your reformation." "I defy the most careful parent to find anything against me at this moment, unless it be a platonic devotion. The youth of Mademoiselle de Nailles is an advantage, for I might indulge myself in that till we were married, and then I should settle down and leave Paris, where nothing keeps me but "
Meanwhile, a petty war for paltry motives was to precede the great spectacle which was to prove to Europe that principles and peoples still existed, and that a phlegmatic nation of merchants and manufacturers could defy the powers of the universe, and risk all their blood and treasure, generation after generation, in a sacred cause.
With its band of red satin ribbon and tiny bunch of field flowers, it seemed to defy the world to find anything funnier. "It's a real comedy hat," Dr. Hume observed. "The kind they wear when they sing: "'Hi-lee-hi-lo-hi-lee-hi-lo, I joost come over; I joost come over." "But she's really a ministering angel, you know," said Billie, "sent to do the washing and ironing and scullery work.
Hence, only when he stands alone, can a man's soul say to Fate, 'I defy thee." "You think then," said the Earl, reluctantly diverting the conversation into a new channel "that in the pursuit of knowledge lies our only active road to real happiness. Yet here how eternal must be the disappointments even of the most successful!
I defy you to see or think of them and not smile with an infinite and intimate, but quite impersonal, pleasure. Well, either I know nothing of women, or that was the case with Bethiah McRankine.
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