His eyes hardened for a moment, like those of a groom who is being defied by a jibbing horse.
But in the absence of any law of copyright publishers often defied the wishes of the owner of manuscripts.
Kean defied the rigid convention of the 'Kemble School,' and gave free rein to his impetuous passions.
The revolt of the nuns at Poitiers, which for two years defied the efforts of churchmen and laymen, is the more noteworthy in that it does not stand alone.
In this struggle the representative of the Pope came into open conflict with the prince of the land, Sigmund, archduke of Austria and duke of Tyrol, who defied the Cardinal and obliged him to flee the country and seek refuge at Rome.
Along the Central Railway there were wild rumours about a revolt of the Wahehe—the warlike tribe who had so long defied German authority in the Iringa country—and around Kilima Njaro a rising of the Wajagga was feared.
He defiedthe Assyrian power for nearly four years.
And the West looked to him; she despised and defied the Spaniard as she despised and defied the Indian.
Not too long the brave shall wait: On their own heads be their fate, Who against the hallowed State Dare begin; Flag defied and compact riven!
This well-appointed army, who but a day before Defied and braved all danger, had like a cloud passed o'er.
For the menace is dumb that defied her, The doubt is dead that denied her, And she stands acknowledged, and strong, and free!
Don't hundreds, thousands of meek creatures who have never defied anybody, don't they have to bear worse ignominies?
She would, you felt, defy Time as successfully as she defiedlesser foes.
Venus did not fail to follow with her vengeance those who dishonored her rites or defied her power.
But, to his dismay, when he touched bread, it hardened in his hand; when he put a morsel to his lips, it defied his teeth.
They punished with the frenzies of remorse the crimes of those who had escaped from or defied public justice.
Chaucer, Spenser, Shakespeare, Milton, and Wordsworth might have defied even a mad doctor to prove his worst.
Consequently they have all their martyrologies--the bright roll-call of those who have defied Caesar even unto death, or at all events gaol.
Planting himself firmly on the rug in the middle of the room, with the faintest gleam of saucy pink tongue showing between his teeth, the little beast sat and defied the entire situation.
For two years they had defied the law and resisted all efforts to break them up.
When he discovered the fraud, the monks defied him.
And certainly, when we find in history an Arnold Winkelried, who defied death and made an opening for freedom with his body--did he do it for freedom's sake?
There was a heaviness in the chin, too, but the free springing curve of the neck contradicted that, and the symmetry of the face defied analysis.
She had defied it, perhaps, but it had been there.
Elfrida opened her notebook and threatened absurdities of detail for publication in the Age; he defied her, tilted his chair back, put his feet on a packing-box, and smoked a cigarette.
But the venomous population of Rattlesnake Ledge had a Gibraltar for their fortress that might have defied the siege-train dragged to the walls of Sebastopol.
For five months a handful of negroes and mulattoes had defied the whole force of the island; and they were defending their liberty by precisely the same tactics through which their ancestors had won it.
Typical as no other man I can recall of the code to which we had dedicated ourselves, the code that moulded the important part of the undergraduate world and defied authority, he regarded any defection from it in the light of treason.
As the case proceeded I was rather disappointed on the whole that he was not dramatic--not even as dramatic as he had been when he defied the powers in the Legislature.
On the other hand, the Major and I put a bold front on the business and defied him, not without some ground of law.
The height, he reminded us, was greater than the tallest ship's mast, the rope entirely free; and he as good as defied the boldest and strongest to succeed.
The trap had been set beside an open spring, whose bubbling waters defied all frost.
Only the great balsam poplars, and elms, and water-ash, growing along the little chain of lakes far down the valley and striking roots far down into the damp, kept their green and defied the parching skies.
The expression on his face would have defied words.
Fouchette, with a precision and nonchalance that defied suspicion, "Monsieur Lerouge is probably off in some sweet solitude unknown to vulgar eye enjoying his honeymoon.
She won out and defied the whole caboodle, as she called them when she was roused.
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