Defying

Examples

• Consider that eye: consider the resolute, wild, free thing looking out of it, defying me, with more than courage--with a stern triumph. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• I am looked upon about here as a second Ajax defying the lightning. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• How could he dream of her defying the barrier that her husband had placed between them? George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• He came back gay and self-satisfied, eager and busy, caring nothing for Miss Woodhouse, and defying Miss Smith. Jane Austen. Emma.
• Is it fair, is it worthy of yourself, to talk of my defying you afore ever you say what you want of me? Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• I hope everybody here will lead them to believe that I died defying them, consistently and perseveringly, as I did through so many years. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• Others said the _Clermont_ appeared at night like a monster moving on the waters defying the winds and tide, and breathing flames and smoke. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.

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