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Updated: May 28, 2025
Those who know the natives best were taken by surprise, and are compelled to recognise that a restive, half-sullen, half-defiant spirit is abroad among them, and that the task of governing them may not be the easy thing which it has been since the days of Kamehameha the Great.
With a half-furtive, half-defiant air he advanced to Pauline, but before he could utter a word, either of justification or apology, she sprang at him with impetuous gestures and deeply frowning brows.
But there was a certain half-shamed, half-defiant suggestion in his expression, yet coupled with a watchful lurking uneasiness which was not pleasant and hardly becoming in a bridegroom and the possessor of such a bride. But the frank, joyous, innocent face of Polly Mullins, resplendent with a simple, happy confidence, melted our hearts again, and condoned the fellow's shortcomings.
"Ah! once landed on that subject, and there is no telling when we may come to an end," Sir Tom said, with a laugh, "but never mind, I like you all the better for it, my boy." Jock gave an astonished look at Lucy, a half-defiant one at her husband. "That was only by the way," he said, lifting up his shoulders with a little air of offence.
Once or twice her eyes challenged his, half-puzzled, half-defiant. Her quick perception detected his critical attitude, and in her present mood the undernote of antagonism acted as a spur rather than a check upon the dare-devil strain in her, which was responsible for her odd mingling of folly and heroic self-devotion.
That was the first fright and humiliation that Master Ned brought on his people; and he brought so many of these in after years, that the time came when his parents, and all, were rather glad than sorry each time he packed off again, and shuddered rather than rejoiced when, after an absence, he turned up safe and healthy as ever, with his old hangdog smile beneath which lurked a look half-defiant, half-injured.
'You don't even look at me, she seemed to say; 'you haven't spoken kindly to me once. And suddenly she said in a hard voice: "Now I shan't go to Mr. Lennard's any more." "Oh, then you have been to him!" Triumph at attracting his attention, fear of what she had admitted, supplication, and a half-defiant shame all this was in her face. "Yes," she said. Hilary did not speak.
Fuller knows I'm not smart at figuring, and if you want the books neat, you'll have to get me a better clerk. Anyhow, I've my own tally and allow I can tell you what stuff I get and where it goes." "That is satisfactory. Look at this list and tell me where the cement you're short of has gone." "Into the mixing shed, I guess," said the other with a half-defiant frown. "Then it didn't come out.
By now the spirit of the woods was in the picnickers; the gladness of the day possessed them wholly, and the afternoon sped quickly. If at times Kirk found his companion regarding him with a strangely timid, half-defiant look, he refused to connect it with the episode of their landing.
A ragged youth with a crop of fiery red hair was standing in the doorway, regarding the occupants of the shelter with a grin, half-whimsical, half-defiant. Jimmy recognized him. It was Spike Mullins. "Excuse me," said Spike Mullins. "Is dere any gent in dis bunch of professional beauts wants to give a poor orphan dat suffers from a painful toist something to drink?
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