No wonder that churls and yeomen wax so presumptuous as even to lay leaguer before castles, and that clowns and swineherds send defiances to nobles, since men-at-arms have turned sick men's nurses.
Her nobles collected at Wallingford, and sent defiances to Stephen to fight a pitched battle with them; but he knew his own advantage too well, and took no notice.
This unguarded expression was highly resented: the duke of Burgundy insisted that he should retract it; and mutual challenges and defiancespassed between them on this occasion.
The two armies faced each other for some days: mutual defiances were sent: and Edward, at last, retired into Flanders, and disbanded his army.
Handsome or not handsome, to this old man there comes a young fellow who casts all manner of fierce defiances in his teeth--gums I should rather say--and tells him in plain terms that his mistress hates him.
Wishart's hopes and hatreds, and sublimedefiances of man's petty faculties, had aroused in him no echo, no response.
And, let me tell you, Niece, if he had the respect for you which he pretends to have, he would not throw out defiances as he does.
And do you yourself think, when you know the avowed hatred of one side, and he declared defiances of the other, that this can be, that it ought to be a match?
I asked him, if he thought such enormities as these, such defiances of the laws of society, would have passed unpunished?
How born or bred, and or nourished upon blows and threats on one side, and retorts and defiances on the other, is not to the purpose.
He then went to Flanders, and on the defiances being declared between the French and English nations, he got together about forty spears, and, by riding through Brabant night and day, he soon reached Hainault.
There were no regular defiances to war as in other countries: honour, that animating principle of chivalry, was not known; the object of the conquest was regarded to the exclusion of fame and military distinction.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "defiances" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
