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A gleam of angry defiance shone in his eyes.
She raised her head with a trace of defiance.
They sang the louder in defiance of the elements.
For I already perceive here tears and defiance beforehand.
This last defiance is a signal for a chase.
If I am searched, I can bid them defiance.
He repeated, raising his voice into accents of defiance.
He snapped his fingers with an air of defiance.
Brady cried, in a last futile burst of defiance.
The Defiance is being sailed better than the Eleanor.
A faint, almost futile stirring of defiance shook him.
Exclaimed the Spaniard, in a tone of superb defiance.
There was a curious, sullen defiance in her manner.
Have you learned defiance among the people down below?
Demanded the accused in a tone of mock defiance.
She bent upon Lucinda a look of flickering defiance.
Remember ye are Frenchmen, and bid defiance to famine!
And her eyes flashed in defiance of his anger.
There were no shouts of defiance, no hostile demonstrations.
His defiance of her was only a half-hearted one.
"Don't you write stories in defiance of my wishes?"
A yell of defiance was flung back at him.
There was a touch of defiance in his tone.
There was a flash of defiance in her eyes.
He interpreted her looks and attitude as a defiance.
There was a touch of defiance in her laugh.
There was infinite scorn and defiance in his voice.
From five hundred throats came a yell of defiance.
It was an attitude that might have suggested defiance.
There sprang into her eyes a light of defiance.
His first utterance is a defiance of my orders.
It was a defiance I had never shown before.
Defiance of their decree and intense love overwhelmed her.
I asked with a defiance that covered my unease.
I will no longer endure this defiance and scandal.
She defended herself with sullen defiance and denial.
Sir Charles receives the tidings with bold defiance.
She met Emmy's gaze steadily, but without defiance.
Let him greet England with our sharp defiance.
Her eyes challenged him with their old defiance.
Then the crashing Place yell replied in defiance.
Beneath her defiance, however, Caroline was terribly afraid.
This was done, but Louis's defiance was short.
And in her tone at once were defiance and irony.
You will soon be able to put him at defiance.
This was his bloody defiance and his threat.
Persisted Rose, shaking her head with pretty defiance.
The voice had a spice of defiance in it now.
He said, with a ring of defiance in his voice.
She smiled back her defiance through her tears.
Over Bunny's body she flung her fruitless defiance.
She said, with a note of defiance in her voice.
She asked, with a note of defiance in her voice.
Alicia Vernon understood this as a cool defiance of her.
He laughed with something between despair and defiance.
She brushed her tears away with pitiful defiance.
In defiance of public opinion, he insisted on this point.
With cold defiance she lifted her handsome head.
Ward was growing angry at this calm defiance.
Asked the countess, her face blazing with defiance.
There was a note of defiance in the man's voice.
Nancy could not help that flare of defiance.
She flashed a look of hate and defiance at him.
John held her by him in haughty defiance.
He challenged the veteran, who accepted the defiance.
He returned and faced his critics with defiance.
Every eye flashed with superb joy and defiance.
He had achieved his aim in defiance of the nation.
Then she laughed, with a delicate touch of defiance.
Then she struck a chord with a loud defiance.
Yet there was no silent defiance between us therein.
Intellectually, at least, their attitude sets gravity at defiance.
Large groups of people sat down in flat defiance.
There was now something like defiance in her eyes.
Carroll, who looked at her with a certain defiance.
There was in them a little flare of defiance.
Stubborn resolution and vigorous defiance continued the public tone.
It set all the laws of anatomy at defiance.
Then I could have laughed defiance and challenged death.
There were both hatred and defiance in his glance.
"Very sure," Essie Tisdale answered, again in proud defiance.
They shrank from any open defiance of the government.
She went farther still in defiance of the Government.
She said with a flash of her old defiance.
There were outbreaks of defiance, violent rescues, occasional riots.
He swallowed this thought with a nod of defiance.
With a yell of defiance the gang closed in.
I begin by saying defiance is not for me.
Leary put volumes of husky defiance into his answer.
Kearney confronting him with a look of indignant defiance.
Others of the group roared with gestures of defiance.
Already he felt his defiance growing numb before it.
The hermit looked in defiance round the listening circle.
This defiance brought the enemy to a stand also.
She caught the ring of defiance in his tone.
At this prohibition, Reinhold broke out into uncontrollable defiance.
Stephen looked round with a cunning smile of defiance.
Rage, defiance, desperation, are stamped upon her every feature.
She looked in return at him with haughty defiance.
Little by little "In Defiance of Authority" took shape.