Crossword-Solution: REFUTING 8 letters, 2 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 12

There is a danger lest they should taste the dear delight too early; for youngsters, as you may have observed, when they first get the taste in their mouths, argue for amusement, and are always contradicting and refuting others in imitation of those who refute them; like puppy-dogs, they rejoice in pulling and tearing at all who come near them.

Alexa, at any rate, was refuting his theory as inconsiderately as a seedling defeats the gardener’s expectations.

And by way of refuting his own argument, he would draw from his pocket-book the photograph of Bertha, which had a secret compartment there all to itself, and, gazing tenderly at it, would eagerly defend her against the disparaging reflections which the involuntary comparison had provoked.

Occasionally they spoke, usually advancing and refuting suggestions as to the identity of the nocturnal prowler below-stairs.

Privately I fancied that the mottled and spasmodic legs of Achille—whom she carried in her arms—or at least so much of the infant Pelides’ legs as were not enveloped in a napkin, gave every promise of refuting her generalisation.