"My father worships invisible deities," she said, softly. "Are you a visible deity? Has my mother sent you?" She pointed as she spoke to the deserted hut behind them. "You appear," she went on, "in the place where my mother died. Is it for her sake that you show yourself to her child? Beautiful deity, come to the Temple--come to my father!"英文原著 · 《LITTLE NOVELS》
This low pressure is a creation of Old Prob. What is that? Old Prob. is the new deity of the Americans, greater than AEolus, more despotic than Sans-Culotte. The wind is his servitor, the lightning his messenger. He is a mystery made of six parts electricity, and one part "guess." This deity is worshiped by the Americans; his name is on every man's lips first in the morning; he is the Frankenstein of modern science. Housed at Washington, his business is to direct the storms of the whole country upon New England, and to give notice in advance. This he does.英文原著 · 《The Complete Writings-3》
But do not all these consequences spring equally from his own principle? Revealed religion condemns Mr Malthus. Be it so. But Mr Sadler must share in the reproach of heresy. The theory of Mr Malthus represents the Deity as a Dionysius hanging the sword over the heads of his trembling slaves. Be it so. But under what rhetorical figure are we to represent the Deity of Mr Sadler? A man who wishes to serve the cause of religion ought to hesitate long before he stakes the truth of religion on the event of a controversy respecting facts in the physical world.英文原著 · 《The Miscellaneous Writings and Speeches-2》
His presentiments were too well founded; disaster was hovering over the house of Sechard. But there is a tutelary deity for misers, and by a chain of unforeseen circumstances that tutelary deity was so ordering matters that the purchase-money of his extortionate bargain was to be tumbled after all into the old toper's pouch.英文原著 · 《Two Poets》
"May that Deity[FN#146] who as a mannikin deceived the great king Bali; who as a hero, with a monkey-host, bridged the Salt Sea; who as a shepherd lifted up the mountain Gobarddhan in the palm of his hand, and by it saved the cowherds and cowherdesses from the thunders of heaven--may that Deity be thy protector!"英文原著 · 《Vikram and the Vampire》
Our modern fetich is universal suffrage. Those who have not yet achieved that goal fight bloody revolutions to obtain it, and those who have enjoyed its reign bring heavy sacrifice to the altar of this omnipotent deity. Woe to the heretic who dare question that divinity!英文原著 · 《Anarchism and Other Essays》
On my part? You're the one who just said you created your own system of right and wrong, like some fucking deity.美剧 · 《Billions》
I mean, they'll look at anyone who works in the tech business as some kind of deity.美剧 · 《Sillicon Valley》
I don't object to the concept of a deity, But I'm baffled by the notion of one that takes attendance.美剧 · 《The Big Bang Theory》
I'm quite aware of the way humans usually reproduce, Which is messy, unsanitary, And based on living next to you for three years, Involves loud and unnecessary appeals to a deity.美剧 · 《The Big Bang Theory》