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He had passed his life in sporting circles, and though he himself had seen more of jockeys than prizefighters, their respective circumferences intersected; and more than one case had come to his knowledge of a veteran of the Ring unconscious of his decadence, who had boastfully defied a junior, and made the painful discovery of the degree to which youth can outclass age.
The saints were mixed up in her imagination with the fairies in an intricacy that would have defied the best reasonings of Father Francis. "Well, then, you will wear the stockings, will you not? Only, believe me, your feet are far prettier without them." Bébée laughed happily, and took another peep in the cosy rose-satin nest. But her little face had a certain perplexity.
Besieged and besiegers were alike without artillery; with a single piece, the former might well have defied any force which Marion could bring against him. The place would have been impregnable to the Americans. As it was, its steep sides and strong palisades forbade any attempt to storm. To cut off the garrison from Scott's Lake, where it procured water, was the first step taken by the besiegers.
With sufficient means, she would have defrauded no one, and would have behaved generously to many; with barely enough for her needs, she set her face and defied her feelings, inasmuch as she believed there was no choice. She would shed tears over a pitiful story of want, and without shadow of hypocrisy.
And so ran upon him, and would have smitten him through the head, and Sir Colgrevance ran betwixt them, and said: An ye be so hardy to do so more, we two shall meddle together. When Lionel understood his words he took his shield afore him, and asked him what that he was. And he told him, Colgrevance, one of his fellows. Then Lionel defied him, and gave him a great stroke through the helm.
I never met with so much unkindness and discourtesy in all my life." "Ah, my dear," said the general, "you never defied the world before, as you are doing now." Helen sighed; but, presently recovering her spirit, said she had done without the world on her dear island, and she would not be its slave now.
But she ever sympathized with oppressed classes, like Becket, even as he defied the temporal weapons of Henry II. The Jesuits, even, respected the dignity of the poor. Their errors were trust in machinery and unbounded ambition, but they labored in their best ages for the good of the people.
No doubt the exasperated youth defied him insulted him declared his love carried the other child off her feet with the exaggerated emotion and heroics. And, once off their feet, she saw how the tide had swept them together swept them irrevocably beyond reason and recall.
And as "matter" is but the stuff wherewith Nature works, and she is only insulted, not defied, when we flout or mangle it, so it is against the high dignity of Art to insist upon the carrion she must use. She will press, here the terror, there the radiance, of essential fact; she will leave to us, seeing it in her face, to add mentally the poor stage properties we have grown to trust.
You will be sorry to hear that the Lords of Her Majesty's Council have defied all equitable terms in my eleven years' suffering case. My counsel and myself have only received impertinent replies from under officials. Had my lords met my case like gentlemen and statesmen, I should not have been driven to the course I intend to pursue.
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