I firmly believed, as a Derider of all ghost stories, that Alfred was deceiving himself in fancying that he had seen the apparition of his uncle before the news of Mr. Monkton's death reached England, and I was on this account, therefore, uninfluenced by the slightest infection of my unhappy friend's delusions when I at last fairly decided to accompany him in his extraordinary search.
"The Queen of Hearts"
Wilkie Collins Last Updated: January 3, 2009
Seeking out, with an eye to which the intolerable lightnings seemed to have lent something of their fire, the cowering and bended form of his companion, he said,- "Go home, miserable Derider of the virtue you cannot understand; go to your luxurious and costly home; go and repine that human nature is not measured by your mangled and crippled laws: amidst men, yet more fallen than I am, hope to select your victim; amidst prisons, and hovels, and roofless sheds; amidst rags and destitution, and wretches made mad by hunger, hope that you may find a villain.
"The Disowned, Complete"
Edward Bulwer-Lytton
Well, well; I no more will be a Derider, I did not look for such things from a spider.
"The Works of John Bunyan Volume 3"
John Bunyan