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Eden, with a slight touch of reproach, "you can read not faces only but complexions. You read in my yellow face and sunken eye prejudice; what do you read here?" and he wheeled like lightning and pointed to Mr. Hawes, whose face and very lips were then seen to be the color of ashes. The poor wretch tried to recover composure, and retort defiance; but the effort came too late.
We sat down upon the steps of a church San Pietro was its name, a very old church. For a while we were silent; Virginia, it was to be seen, was now timid timid to the verge of defiance; I was curious, and curiously excited. Mastering myself, I asked her in as redoubtable a voice as I could summon, what she did here, in Pistoja.
He behaved as a youth will who knows himself to be clever, and believes that he is not appreciated, because the crude or paradoxical forms which his cleverness assumes do not recommend it to his elders' minds. He set the judgments of those about him at defiance, and gratuitously proclaimed himself everything that he was, and some things that he was not.
"Yes, I am very fond of music, modern music," he said, leaning against the mantelpiece. "Are you a musician by profession?" "Not exactly...nearly." Andrews thrust his hands into the bottoms of his trouser pockets and looked from one to the other with a certain defiance. "I suppose you've played in some orchestra? How is it you are not in the regimental band?" "No, except the Pierian."
His face was an unholy thing to look upon. The situation and her powerlessness were exciting him. "No," she answered, keeping her eyes on his, as she might have kept them on some wild animal's, "I am not frightened to death." His ugly dark flush rose. "Well, if you are not," he said, "don't tell me so. That kind of defiance is not your best line just now.
Endey saw her coming. She gasped out, "Why, good grieve! Here's Mis' Parmer, Emarine!" "Yes, I know," said Emarine, calmly. "I ast her to dinner." She opened the door, and shook hands with her mother-in-law, giving her mother a look of defiance that almost upset that lady's gravity. "You set right down, Mother Parmer, an' let me take your things.
It was again her purpose to present the appearance of defending herself against a viewless power, yet she was wholly unlike the Niobe whom she had formerly personated, for not only anguish, horror, and defiance, but deep despair and inexpressible astonishment were portrayed by her features, which obediently expressed the slightest emotion.
I went through the same experience. Several times we were threatened with an upset, but we landed in safety. The portage was short and easy. Flat granite rocks were covered with a thin coat of ice. The boats were unloaded and slid across, then dropped below the projecting rock. The Defiance skidded less than two feet and struck a projecting knob of rock the size of a goose egg.
In 'A Son of Hagar' he forced his story upon his reader in defiance of possibility; but no such blot on construction as the continued presence of a London cad in the person of a Cumberland man in the latter's native village has been seen in his more recent work.
QUESTENBERG. Where was our reason sleeping when we trusted This madman with the sword, and placed such power In such a hand? I tell you, he'll refuse, Flatly refuse to obey the imperial orders. Friend, he can do it, and what he can, he will. And then the impunity of his defiance Oh! what a proclamation of our weakness!
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