Defied

Examples

• The powers they defied; But Heaven is just, and by a god they died. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• I, in my stiff- necked rebellion, almost cursed the dispensation: instead of bending to the decree, I defied it. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• Flesh or spirit must be defied for its sake. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• Tarzan defied them all, and the thin, strong noose continued to settle about Tublat's neck whenever he least expected it. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
• How the dreadless Angel defied, resisted, and repelled? Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• To this mortal quarrel he has himself defied me, and I shall not forget the challenge. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• They were warlike little nations and defied, in those days, governments that overshadow them now as mountains overshadow molehills. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• Pierced deeper than I could endure, made now to feel what defied suppression, I cried-- My heart will break! Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• She defied him. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• However, Margaret defied the raven, and would hope. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• Then things went smoothly, for Don Pedro defied the world in a speech of two pages without a single break. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• Adversity gave me and my mother one passing scowl and brush, but we defied her, or rather laughed at her, and she went by. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• The vile deception which had asserted her death defied exposure even in the house where she was born, and among the people with whom she had lived. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• Though decidedly shaken by the fall from the tower upon him, Roderigo defied the old gentleman and refused to stir. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• Warm from illuminations, and music, and thronging thousands, thoroughly lashed up by a new scourge, I defied spectra. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• She also defied her sire, and he ordered them both to the deepest dungeons of the castle. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• London defied him. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.

Typist: Marcus