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And can I hope for happiness in a willful defiance of this restriction?'
He was eager for action on the scene of this usurpation and defiance.
Even then he continued to struggle and roar his defiance of his captors.
Answered the white lips resolutely, while the haggard eyes flashed defiance.
From five-and-twenty lusty throats a hoarse shout ascended in a roar of defiance.
They only answered by yells of defiance, and quickened their pace.
It was now his life or theirs, and he hurled defiance at them.
He was torn between that small anxiety and the illimitable defiance.
She whipped back from him and her eyes brightened with defiance.
I took it up as a knight takes up a gauntlet, in defiance of injustice.
This very day I will send him my cartel and defiance.
She flinched ever so slightly, but she covered it with instant defiance.
Begged Prudence, before her husband could make any rejoinder to this defiance.
It is a sneering defiance of the religious sentiment, a direct teaching of pessimism.
Nigel exclaimed, with intensely bitter defiance, when at last a pause came.
The "Defiance," one of the "River Defense" gunboats, escaped without material injury.
She cried, clenching her fists, and uttering a savage laugh of defiance.
Aaron was staggered by this defiance, and looked fierce for the moment.
Two prayed, in defiance of their scruples, for his wicked, wild soul.
She returned him a sulky glance of defiance, which made him scowl.
The physiognomy was the living expression of the defiance of opposing force.
The crowd shuffled and muttered angrily at this defiance of its conviction.
Above the answering chorus of jeers rang his berserk fury of defiance.
Then his hesitation passed, and he lifted his head with scornful defiance.
It was the steel of conventionality against the flint of womanly defiance.
On the prow of his ship were disobedience, defiance, scorn, and success.
He snorted fresh defiance through wide red nostrils nicely fringed with white.
On the prow of his ship were disobedience, defiance, scorn, and success.
He seized the opportunity, but defiance not complacency was now his note.
At length demanded Ben, in a deep sonorous tone of mingled defiance and contempt.
The defiance has turned into faint-hearted doubt, the atheism into hopeless despair.
Proudly returned the Indian, with a look of mingled scorn and defiance.
The action, so full of scornful defiance, spurred Jasper back to consciousness.
She commenced to address us at once in a voice of high-pitched, impudent defiance.
These colors were all exquisitely brilliant, and bid defiance to my palette.
With all those long white teeth glittering defiance of such a calumny.
The impudence of this sudden love making moved her unexpectedly to defiance.
The message is not to be blurted out in defiance of even conventional forms.
On the prow of his ship were disobedience, defiance, scorn and success.
The heralds returned with an answer of defiance from the hill boys.
In his defiance and egotism he had muddled things in a desperate way.
They act because they are impelled: often in defiance of all prudent considerations!
Standing erect, he gazed in defiance at the clouds, at the distant gulls.
Is there nothing to terrify me in setting that solemn command at defiance?
In a moment of defiance and determination she sent a telegram studiously colorless.
In fact, there was a tingle of defiance in her unwritten, unspoken ultimatum.
There was no appeal for pity in his voice; defiance was still uppermost.
The bird chirped a note of defiance and hopped to the branch below.
As obstinate as intractable, he set at defiance all efforts and all precautions.
He left for his uninvited guests no message either of welcome or defiance.
It was as though my own blood hurled a proud defiance to me.
We shall at length bid defiance to the arrogance of the French emperor!
The majority, it is clear, have even ostentatiously set those Instructions at defiance.
Diseases are checked at will, which formerly had an inscrutable power of defiance.
She said nothing; but this hardening of her eyes was like a defiance.
Out you come, from under my pillow, in lawless defiance of the mandate.
For answer, however, the Australians only fixed bayonets and yelled defiance!
None were wild, unless they ran wild willfully, and in defiance of control.
Gentleness and forgiveness breed repentance and reformation, and harshness begets defiance.
He was perhaps rather imprudent in the defiance he flung to the enemy.
In his high-handed, impetuous fashion, he set all caution and discretion at defiance.
She held out her hand to him with an air of contemptuous defiance.
Thomas, however, was determined to return, and to return with uncompromising defiance.
Her defiance had spent itself, and she was growing weak and tremulous.
When you are always squatting upon one's clothes, in defiance of hoop, or distance.
She was full of defiance against herself and her own lurking weakness.
He would have loved to join the merry adventurers in their defiance of authority.
What scorn, and loathing, and defiance there was depicted in his countenance!
He had always been an unruly subject, inclined to a surreptitious defiance of authority.
His eyes challenged Robin's in ironical defiance, as he moved to take his turn.
And it was with a poor affectation of defiance that he made his answer.
Rambling shots, yells of defiance and triumph, broke from the gathering strikers.
And the broad face beamed and darkened with alternate enthusiasm and defiance.
Just now its predominating expression was one of boldness, defiance, reckless rage.
She uttered the words in a tone of defiance which seemed to startle him.
Among the poor he finds brutish obstinacy, among the rich insolent defiance.
"In the face of your defiance I will tarry here and abide my fortune."
The lurking shadow vanished amongst the pines with a whoop of defiance.
Dion loved her for the defiance and for its deliciously absurd reason.
She pleaded, and when entreaty failed, she flung down a passionate defiance.
Shouting defiance, they mingled in conflict, eager for victory, and strongly armed.
They wheeled high over the framework of the Goliath, chirping their defiance.
He answered raillery with raillery, curses with cursing, and abuse with defiance.
I was no longer in a Mercury run spaceship screaming defiance at a frog.
Her eyes, mocking, brilliant in her pale face, met his sulky defiance.
He looked defiance at his captors, in whose faces he read the terrible doom.
If any was made it was made surreptitiously and in defiance of the law.
He said, concentrating every ounce of his virility into a look of uncompromising defiance.
Her brown eyes showed a dull defiance and deprecation of the human destiny.
His eyes flash defiance at the grinning fiends who exult at his misery.
"This denim is all I've got," she said, with a touch of defiance.
They approached their tortures in no temper of dogged obstinacy or sullen defiance.
They ought to have let him hurl through her his defiance of them.
No sign of fear shone in her wonderful eyes, only hate, defiance, watchfulness.
All this defiance only served to quicken afresh the purpose of the Queen.
They were all talking at once and shaking their clenched fists in defiance.
They still kept up a semblance of defiance, but it was very lukewarm.
A downright, straight-forward rascal, who openly sets law at defiance, is a wonder.
He was answered by a volley of cannon shot and shouts of defiance.
The jeering laughter and contemptuous defiance of the man goaded them to madness.