I'll save her from disobeying and disgracing her father; I'll save her from throwing herself away on you,—from making herself a laughing-stock,—from being flouted by a man like your father, because she's not good enough for his son.
The rules were vague, however, and often flouted by Chinese smokers who are accustomed to lighting up at will.
The law makes smoking in offices, restaurants, hotels and hospitals illegal, withvenues where the ban is flouted subject to fines of up to 10,000 yuan ($1,600).
But police patrols were seen booking locals who flouted the ban, forcing them to return home.
The poor bumpkin who sat on a low stool in the corner, and was jeered at and flouted, will perhaps have his worn-out stool given him as a provision; and the stool may become a litter in the land of eternity, and rise up then as a throne, gleaming like gold and blooming as an arbor.
