A good-natured extravagance, a defiant recklessness of expenditure were the leading characteristics of the mining aristocracy.
He saw him return more dogged, hopeless, and defiant than before.
As the trooper rode slowly past them, his well-bred high-conditioned horse arching his neck and champing the bit which had stopped him so suddenly, the girl turned pale in spite of her angry look, and lowered her defiant eyes.
Thus, partly as the outcome of the defiant spirit in which he was leaving home and native land, he booked himself as a second-class passenger.
Too late at that hour to call at New Scotland Yard, close by, I hailed a hansom and drove straight home, almost beside myself with rage at the calm, unruffled, defiant attitude with which the adventurer had met me.
Come with me where we can talk privately," she urged; her demeanor told Latisan that she was not able to back the defiant stand he had taken with Crowley a moment before.
She ran and picked them up and hugged them in her arms with defiant proprietorship.
Hallowell shout with very joy, and the men themselves to ring outdefiant cheers which made the pines and marshes of Ocean Pond echo again.
Hewell, the greater part of whose life had been spent on the plantation in the capacity of a negro-driver, and who knew that the defiant looks of these men meant something, was the first to start.
The partial successes which the rebels had achieved at Bull Run, Ball's Bluff, and Big Bethel, together with the defiant position of Gen.
Often in the past a defiant captive who stood up boldly to his captors had received more consideration than usual from Apache warriors; courage was a quality they prized.
And then, looking at her defiant face, a most extraordinary and disagreeable suspicion darted into Godfrey Pavely's mind.
He looked up again, a defiant smile on his lips, to see that both man and rifle had disappeared.
His face sobered, his eyes suddenly filling with an expression of defiant resignation.
The boy found himself freezing into defiant stiffness under this misconstruction until his very eagerness to be understood militated against him.
Margot had turned upon her guest with a defiant fear.
That look passed quickly and a defiantexpression took its place.
If at last you come to the central donjon, it still looms up above you--defiant and formidable, and you can have your fill of desperate fighting, only perhaps to be bloodily repulsed in the end.
One good woman, seeing her need of care and defiant of village prattling, took her to her home, and there, after giving birth to a dead child, she passed away.
It was almost impossible to recognize in her the thin, white-faced, rather defiant girl of the night before.
The pirates' shout of triumph was echoed by a cry from her decks and the defiant roar of her few remaining guns.
He rose to his feet and stood there against the mast, in the old half-submissive, half-defiant attitude, with his head thrown back in the old way.
Whatever it was, very little of the railroad company's agent was seen after his first settingdefiant foot into the arena of affairs.
There was a defiant ring in the woman's voice, and Mary realised that here was one of those strong, determined characters who are not easily moved, and which are not rare among the Lancashire operatives.
Even then there was something strong and defiant about her.
Even she over whose own grave no loving tear might ever fall, bowed herdefiant head, and for one brief moment faced that terrible thought.
Whether financiers are to be sullen and stupid like Archbold, defiant like Morgan, or well-intentioned like Perkins is a question that enters deeply into the industrial issues.
Indeed, in all stout conviction about the meaning of life there is a certain defiant note, refusing to surrender to small objections.
All through this enquiry the Vekeel had kept silence, but the defiant gaze, assured of triumph, which he fixed on Paula and Orion alternately, augured the worst.
Nancy's defiant gaze, shame in anguish shielding itself with the front of audacity, changed to utter astonishment.
Nancy's look became as scornful and defiant as before.
Withal, a defiant rather than a hopeful mood; resentment of the undisguisable fact that her will was sovereign only in a poor little sphere which she would gladly have transcended.
Always careless and defiant of conventionality, or the world's opinion, she was tenfold more reckless now.
His face flushed with anger; he cast a black look at the new opponent, and asked in a sharp defiant tone: "And that is?
He dared not face the defiant yet abashed eyes with which the young squire stared at him, responding with a hurried bow to Landale's introduction.
