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The General wanted her money, and, in defiance of my anger and my tears, made her his wife.
The natives, in continually increasing numbers, surrounded them, filling the night air with shrieks of defiance and rage.
I will mold a trumpet of the flames, and, with my breath of flame, breathe back my defiance!
He waited, breathless and angry, for his cousin's answer, looking at her with sullen defiance in his face.
Could it be that there was to be no storm of angry protest and defiance even at the very first?
I met her with all the outward forms of respect, but internally with emotions of scorn and defiance.
Nay, as I thought, there was a look of defiance in her face, and a confidence in her own strength.
He turned and looked at her with a sudden defiance in his eyes, as if daring her to doubt him.
Her eyes blazing defiance, she slipped from the couch and stood up before he could reach her side.
Charles Albert's assumption of military authority and his defiance of his generals, led to continual confusions and misunderstandings.
He looked defiance, as if he were prepared to match himself, at less than a moment's notice, against whoever came.
"I don't care," she said, under her breath, and drew herself up with a little flash of defiance.
She remained with him, in sheer defiance of me, until his death, and her reward was his wealth.
With the right culprits behind the bars the backbone of this defiance of the law might be broken.
She had excited his admiration by setting conventions at defiance, and showing her readiness to be his mistress.
Then, whipping about as if defiance had given way to uncontrollable fear, he darted straight out upon the dangerous ice.
When I went in to see her she was still a little defiant, but it was the defiance of courage.
Pickwick returned the glare, concentrated into a focus by means of his spectacles, and breathed a bold defiance.
So, charges were met by defiance, and Peter's temper ran no risk of dying away without finding vent.
Was the answer, but the men on the Swallow's deck only looked at each other and smiled defiance.
These two, having openly displayed contempt of orders and defiance of authority, were dismissed ultimately from the Academy.
Could it have been of admiration for the fine old man who towered there glaring defiance at those about him?
Pickwick returned the glare, concentrated into a focus by means of his spectacles, and breathed a bold defiance.
It sang a song of defiance that even the mournful chant of sheep on the distant slopes failed to subdue.
He told himself this with a certain defiance as though one half of a dual personality were challenging the other.
They both looked at him with a stare of something like defiance, but took no other notice of his presence.
The man's voice had been answered by a woman's, raised as if in defiance that seemed both pitiful and futile.
Keith also halted, and across the intervening desert the eyes of the two men met in grim defiance.
It is a defiance of the Deity, a greater insult than all his previous life was a service and homage.
Several of the natives were seen to fall; but shouts of defiance were raised, and shots were fired in return.
The senators and representatives of these States in Congress retired front its halls, breathing defiance as they went.
The two men stared into each other's eyes for a full minute, without embarrassment, without contest, without defiance.
This defiance, which was regarded as an insult, closed the career of Chrysostom in the capital of the Empire.
It was open defiance on his part; he had done this thing without consulting her and without her consent.
There was fear in the blue eyes that looked up to his, but they held a glare of defiance as well.
Her brown eyes held him with that strange, unspoken defiance it seemed so often beyond her power to hide.
All this while they were shouting defiance, and letting off their fires by four or five at a time.
She flung the question like a challenge, and as she flung it she straightened herself in sudden splendid defiance.
It was a question, a protest, a defiance all in one; but not a sign of the animal could be seen.
"Yes, ma'am," replied Rebecca, noticing with bewilderment a curious expression compounded of fear and defiance on the other's face.
My memory went back, in defiance of all exercise of my own will, to my last interview with her.
It was quite possible for one daring man to bid defiance to the hundred here, and prevent their crossing.
John Vaughan leaned toward Betty and whispered half to himself: "I wonder if those cheers were defiance after all?"
Dawson and Woodward was done "in open defiance of all that scientists know about skulls, whether ancient or modern."
The youth obeyed, and in a strong deep chant began the customary boast of endurance and defiance of pain.
So, as the two stood looking at each other, her gaze at first was marked by aversion and defiance.
"It is the old brown scoundrel's way of showing us his defiance," declared Captain Cortland in a shocked voice.
The slightly deepened flush in her cheeks remained, and she surveyed him with the same cool air of defiance.
"When I'm twenty-one," he said to himself again and again, in a vague defiance of all the hostile powers of Society.
She was conquered, but afterwards, when she lay quite still, there was a look of defiance in her attitude.
Could it be possible that the judge was going to act, after all, in defiance of her husband's wishes?
The Queen, though she was in a high passion of patriotism and defiance, left the room without a word.
Something of a massacre might easily at that moment have resulted from the display of rash and ill-timed defiance.
And thereafter she watched her hero more narrowly than ever, reading in his bearing a stern defiance of adversity.
"She seems to be getting along all right, though," said Eleanor, after watching the Defiance for a few minutes.
The term "legal" is opposed by the term "revolutionary" which is applied to political actions in defiance of law.
He is one of those who keep the house company and give to it its sober air of determination and defiance.
She sends defiance to Zeus, and the Chorus end the scene by vowing to win Poseidon to aid Demeter.
Then, at a given signal, "Fort Venus" opened her mouth and roared forth her message of defiance and resolve.
Cried Tom, as he planted himself in front of the portal and folded his arms, a picture of defiance.
This feeling has steadily increased, until of late it has developed into downright defiance of my authority and desires.
It was the first step in defiance of convention that gave her freedom and deprived her of her reputation.
Madge, in his place, would have been whipping the stream, with defiance and determination, an hour after her arrival.
His hair was gray at the temples, but his eyes had a kindly twinkle that bid defiance to time.
"Oh, I suppose the officers do all the talking," said May, in direct defiance of the General's last remark.
Fred vaulted into the saddle, and with a yell of defiance dashed back in the direction he had come.
We could only look at each other in amazement and wonder at the defiance written on the face of Annie Grayson.
This was followed by an open defiance to the Government signed by over seventy individuals in the Independent newspaper.
Quentin leaned against the big post at the foot of the steps, his face the picture of gloomy defiance.
When men are numerous and "strong enough to set their duties at defiance, do they cease to be duties any longer?"
The expression of the round, tear-stained face she turned toward Leslie was a mixture of shame, defiance and appeal.
A murmur of surprise came from the audience; the antagonists faced each other, and then glared a bitter defiance.
All this while they were shouting defiance, and letting off their fires by four or five at a time.
We may reasonably infer, then, that in this turbulent fun there is some consciousness of setting law at defiance.
Occasional scowls and mutterings of defiance and insult alarmed the queen in behalf of her children rather than herself.
The Grand Fleet line, eighty miles long, rode the sea, a symbol of power, an august and visible defiance.
Annette now came to her feet suddenly, her pale face showing defiance, and her big brown eyes flicking anger.
She looked with a certain defiance at the men who stood about the walls and sat at the table.
As though some barrier in his mind had broken down, letting some strange flood of proud defiance rush in.
It was his first defiance of the wilderness before him and the first victory of his enemies behind him.
She insisted, in defiance of all modern political ideas, in tearing provinces from a great country against their will.
Was it possible that Hill had gone to his late master's residence in defiance of the orders of the police?
There, back to a tree, a rope twisted twice about his body sat Ned Rector, defiance in face and eyes.
His love of the past bears a look of defiance of the present, not calculated to win the reader's assent.
Yet even in his confidence there was the pathetic accent of one who feels need to bid defiance to despair.
The innocent maid would set my strictest scrutiny at defiance; and Dexter would be safely shielded behind her.
He tripped every day on the barriers of ancient law, and often his generosity was taken for defiance.
At midnight the city was again summoned; and the answer being still defiance, the batteries began to open.
With heroic effort she slowly raised her eyes until, alight with anger, defiance, unhappiness, they met his eyes.
He still held her hand, in defiance of a gentle attempt to withdraw it, and now he pressed it closer.
The terrible brute stood for an instant or two, lashing his sides with his tail and glaring defiance.
And his studies were in the main the accepted studies of the time, not, like Shelley's, a defiance of them.
Everyone noted that there was a tone of defiance in his voice which they had missed on the first occasion.
The desperate Don ran close along the shore, and now and then he threw a shell of defiance.
He looked round the table, and, seeing many eyes fixed upon him, spoke boldly, almost with a tone of defiance.
The nobles, however, were much less afraid of the monarchs, and often resisted them and bid them defiance.
She spoke to the company, but looked at her husband; there was fear as well as defiance in her eyes.
She slipped from the bed to her feet, and stood confronting Elisabeth with a kind of desperate defiance.
Cheered by this last grateful promise, and bidding a mental defiance to Moon, the traveler left the room.
He penetrated almost to the city gate, in defiance of a shower of missiles that slew many of his followers.