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"And here I go," exclaimed Smallbones. "I defy the devil and all his works as we said on Sunday at the workhouse." "That lad's a prime bit of stuff," observed Spurey, "I will say that." "Yes," replied Short. In a few seconds Smallbones came hastily up the ladder. "Corporal, you must go to the cabin directly.
"Sir," said the marquis, "I await your reply; for not even you, in my presence, shall imply that one reproach can be attached to the name of that lady." "Oh, moderate your tone to me, my Lord Castleton!" cried Vivian; "in you, at least, there is one man I am not forbidden to brave and defy.
The Squire at the foot of the bed held up the candle; the movement had a sinister significance. "Do you defend him?" it seemed to say. "Do you defy me?" Gripping the bed-rail, he cried: "I'll have no gambler and profligate for my son! I'll not risk the estate!" Mrs. Pendyce raised herself, and for many seconds stared at her husband. Her heart beat furiously. It had come!
On the other hand, from my knowledge of Kirby's desperate character, and previous exploits, I seriously doubted the efficacy of threatening him with lynch law. He would be far more liable to defy a mob than yield to its demands.
Upon my word, it does me good to say it a blatant ass! And Sir Morton Pippitt is another!" He laughed, and lifting his hat from his forehead, let the soft wind breathe refreshing coolness on his uncovered hair. "There are decided limits to Christian love!" he said, the laughter still dancing in his eyes. "I defy I positively defy anyone to love Leveson!
She, a "stranger in a strange land," an inmate of a remote coast fortress, was absolutely in Lord Vincent's power. He would deride her demands and defy her wrath. Should she openly attempt to leave the castle and return to her native country and her friends? Again, what would be the good of such an attempt? Her departure, she felt sure, would never be permitted.
The man who attempts to defy the "injustice" of that law by ignoring the consequences of its enforcement will find himself punished rather severely.
If Jules should come back, simply defy him to enter that is all. There are two of you, so you must keep an eye on the former occupiers, if they return, and on Miss Spencer, while I nurse the patient. But first, you must send for a doctor. 'Doctor! Prince Aribert had said, alarmed. 'Will it not be necessary to make some awkward explanation to the doctor? 'Not at all! she replied.
We are rapidly gaining fuller knowledge of the physical and chemical processes which constitute life, or with which life is always associated. If we gain this knowledge we shall be in better position to solve many of our other problems. Even then there is a problem which preceded and which will possibly always defy solution. How did life originate?
Harpagon is not more unlike to Jourdain, Joseph Surface is not more unlike to Sir Lucius O'Trigger, than every one of Miss Austen's young divines to all his reverend brethren. And almost all this is done by touches so delicate, that they elude analysis, that they defy the powers of description, and that we know them to exist only by the general effect to which they have contributed.
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