Defended

Examples

• And say, mothers of America, is this a thing to be defended, sympathized with, passed over in silence? Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• In that, he could not be defended; but if he had injured her, how much more had he injured himself; if her case were pitiable, his was hopeless. Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
• Melnos is well defended, but I mistrust Andros—he is too much a friend of that rascal Alcibiades. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
• I love thee as I love Madrid that we have defended and as I love all my comrades that have died. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• He had defended the Sierra well and he wanted to be left alone there to defend it whenever it was attacked. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• The lower or eastern end was defended by two or three small detached works, armed with artillery and infantry. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• These two armies, and the cities covered and defended by them, were the main objective points of the campaign. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• A double stockade, or palisade, composed of pointed beams, which the adjacent forest supplied, defended the outer and inner bank of the trench. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• One Norwegian long defended it by his single arm, and was at length pierced with a spear thrust through the planks of the bridge from a boat beneath. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• You might at least approve of his being defended. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• The militias of some barbarous nations defended themselves much better. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• You know what the counsel said, Sammy, as defended the gen'l'm'n as beat his wife with the poker, venever he got jolly. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• These were fortified and defended at all points. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• An uncontrollable impulse was urging her to put her case to this man, from whose curiosity she had always so fiercely defended herself. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• It would know that even God has been defended with nonsense. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• Saint Antoine was clamorous to have its wine-shop keeper foremost in the guard upon the governor who had defended the Bastille and shot the people. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
• Emmy defended her conduct and showed that it was dictated only by the purest religious principles; that a woman once, &c. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• The battery was in the main line of the enemy, which was defended by his whole army present. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• Now the short eastern French frontier was very strongly defended. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• It was grown up thickly with large trees and undergrowth, making it difficult to penetrate with troops, even when not defended. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• That the weather being calm, he rowed round me several times, observed my windows and wire lattices that defended them. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
• But the Belgian frontier of France was longer and less strongly defended. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Every body who saw it was pleased, but Mr. Elton was in continual raptures, and defended it through every criticism. Jane Austen. Emma.
• She defended it, and raved at him. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• They defended themselves when they were but a handful, and the Indians much more numerous. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• The road, said to have been built by Cortez, zigzags around the mountain-side and was defended at every turn by artillery. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• Then, too, any line of march that could be selected led through mountain passes easily defended. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• One of them, as much as two miles out from his main line, was on a commanding elevation and defended by an intrenched battery with infantry supports. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• I defended my sister as warmly as though she had really treated me with kindness, and felt at that time seriously angry with the duke for abusing her. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• Giving way, however, meant that the side path would be left to Alcibiades, and, however bravely defended, would be certain to be captured at once. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.

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