He shifted his position slowly, and went on, as if defending the course of action he had taken in the case.
Crafts on some point, and, noticing it, he seemed to be in the position both of explaining his contention to us and of defending it before his fair assistant.
With the purpose ofdefending himself someday against his king.
We are defending at this moment, in England, five or six causes, which does not prevent every one from considering his own not only as the good cause, but as the best.
Your Majesty knows very well that Palmerston has long had much communication with the Morning Chronicle and much influence over it, and has made great use of it for the purpose of maintaining and defending his own policy.
I pray God it may be deferred until I am capable of defending myself," groaned Vos Engo, glaring at the other with implacable hatred in his eyes.
Your Highness does well in defending a friend and counsellor," he said gently.
But the history of four hundred years convincingly shows that England in defending her own interests has always been fighting the battles of European liberty.
It may be contended, no doubt, that in opposing the supremacy of another empire on land, she is only defending her own supremacy on the sea.
I looked to see who was defending me, and wondered at his boldness and intimacy with Hmelnitski, till I saw that he was Bogun.
Some Cossacks resisted yet; and at the mast stood Pan Yan, with bleeding face and an arrow sunk to the shaft in his left shoulder, but defendinghimself furiously.
Speakers stood on benches and implored the elders not to yield the city to the hands of the enemy without defending it.
The Tartars increased the uproar, at the same time sending clouds of arrows on the defending soldiers; men from behind drove the mob to the assault with clubs and rawhide whips.
God is defending us against Cossack predominance and witchcraft," continued Zagloba; "but these heretics are offending him.
Vershul was unable to take part in the skirmishes; for, struck six times in the head while defending the tabor, he lay as if dead in the tent.
Smoke covered the inlet completely, and only the regular salvos of the muskets amidst the shouts, roaring, whistle of Tartar arrows, and the rattle of guns and muskets, announced that the Germans were still defending themselves.
Besides, how is the king to know the conditions in which we are defending ourselves, and that we are eating the last fragments?
They did not think of defending the princess, for the Kurtsevichi were hated in the place; they only looked on the revelling of the Cossacks, elbowing one another, whispering, and approaching nearer and nearer the barrels of vudka and mead.
Zagloba, holding Helena between his outstretched arms, and defendingher from the pressure.
In the rooms of the tower a few tens of nobles were defending themselves; to those speedy succor should be given.
The principal ports might, indeed, be nominally shut, but Sweden could neither prevent the British navy from entering her numerous unfortified harbours by her own army, or support troops sufficient for the purpose of defending them.
A lawyer in defending the worst ruffian that ever committed a crime will know that he is called upon to spare nothing that is tender.
He would not even allow her the usual right of defending her sex by falsehood.
The deputies, however, determined that the head of their church should not be imperfectly protected, required of the minister a distinct explanation of what he meant by defending Rome.
This young man had been "had" in the past badly, perhaps overwhelmingly--and now most of his energies went in defending himself against the unknown.
I was defending him, and Mr. Wilcox became jealous about me, however slightly.
They were not brilliant wrongdoers and made no attempt at defending themselves or pretending that they did not know they were going to perdition.
In a second speech he made a most effective and powerful argument against a proposition to give the States authority to tax the bank, defending the doctrines laid down by Chief Justice Marshall in McCullough vs.
Mr. Webster, however, made a speech at Andover, defending his course and advocating Whig principles, and declared that he was not a candidate for office.
So long as Mr. Webster confined himself todefending the Constitution as it actually was and as what it had come to mean in point of fact, he was invincible.
The weight of his speech was directed to defending the principle of a suitable representation of property, which was a subject requiring very adroit treatment.
In regard to this error, the author of the Plea, relieves us from the necessity of proving that it is contained in the Symbolical books, by himself not only acknowledging the fact, but also defending the doctrine.
Presently the men of the defending party make a sortie from the room fully armed, and repel the attackers with much show of violence, but without bloodshed.
They are chiefly used indefending houses from attack, a store of them being kept in the house.
They were equally unskilled in the arts of constructing, besieging, or defendingregular fortifications.
It was, however, scarcely in his power to place the superiority of his predecessor in a more conspicuous light, than by thus confessing himself unequal to the task of defending the conquests of Trajan.
She will lay down her life for them at any time, defending them with great courage when attacked.
Perhaps, in these subterranean galleries, he is still less able to capture it; and the old marmots may, after all, have some mode of defending both themselves and their young from his venomous attacks.
We shall possess at this time another advantage in defending our good name, derived from our late effort for independence.
There were two courses, either of which might have been followed by our politicians, in defending our Federal rights against Abolitionism.
While the swords of our people were fighting the battles of a necessary self-defence, the pens of our statesmen should have been no less diligent in defendingus against the adverse opinion of a prejudiced world.
In defending her, I have virtually defended the whole South, of which she was the type; for the differences between her slave institutions and theirs were in no respect essential.
Captain Jaynes is sure out of his element in defending the rights of the oppressed, and should be on his own quarter-deck with his cutlass in hand and his rapscallions around him, slaying and robbing, to be in full feather.
In my judgment, if we had to-day an Executive who was desirous of enforcing the laws of the United States to protect loyal men in those States, instead of defending the rebel element, this bill would not be needed.
After this question was disposed of, Mr. Davis was drawn out in another speech by what seemed to him to be the necessity of defending some positions which he had assumed.
During the alarms and troubles which followed in the course of the war, Adam Holliday took a conspicuous part in defending the frontier.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "defending" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: defensive; guarding; patrol; protective; shielding
