I charge this man, the insulter and defamer of my sister, with being the murderer of Lady Teigne!
"The Master of the Ceremonies"
George Manville Fenn
Here, however, they knew better; and though the lawyer quizzed the doctor for never having another patient than the house dog, all of whose arteries he had tied in the course of the winter for practice-and the doctor retorted as heavily, by showing that the lawyer's practice had been other than beneficial to those for whom he was concerned-his one client being found guilty, mainly through his ingenious defence of him; yet they never showed any, the slightest irritation-on the contrary, such little playful badinage ever led to some friendly passages of taking wine together, or in arrangements for a party to the "Dargle," or "Dunleary;" and thus went on the entire party, the young ladies darting an occasion slight at their elders, who certainly returned the fire, often with advantage; all uniting now and then, however, in one common cause, an attack of the whole line upon Mrs. Clanfrizzle herself, for the beef, or the mutton, or the fish, or the poultry-each of which was sure to find some sturdy defamer, ready and willing to give evidence in dispraise.
"The Confessions of Harry Lorrequer, Complete"
Charles James Lever (1806-1872)
I am no defamer of my kind.
"White Slaves"
Louis A Banks