He defies all restraint, and cuts down all hedges.
There is something in the heroic soul that defies death, and the simple mind only translates that faith in the deathlessness of the spirit into material terms.
In short, the Salamander lives in an invincible State of Simplicity and Innocence: Her Constitution is preserv'd in a kind of natural Frost; she wonders what People mean by Temptation; and defies Mankind to do their worst.
The Soul, secur'd in her Existence, smiles At the drawn Dagger, and defies its Point.
He openly defies us each time--sometimes even going the length of writing us an insulting letter, denouncing us as incompetent and heaping ridicule upon the whole department of the Surete.
It not only defies explanation, it's even beyond conjecture.
In more than one place the rapture of discovering that he has deserved to be loved, breaks its way innocently through the stoutest formalities of pen and ink, and even defies the stronger restraint still of writing to a stranger.
For the Winnipeg by the multiplicity of its perils and the ever-changing beauty of its character, defies the description of civilized men as it defies the puny efforts of civilized travel.
For you the Monk illumed his pictured page, For you the press defies the spoils of age; Faustus for you infernal tortures bore, For you Erasmus starved on Adria's shore.
But I shall not go into any calculation of this sort, for I am convinced that it defies calculation; it is impossible to follow it into all its turnings and windings.
We are in a situation which defies hope, one in which we have but a single miserable consolation, that though it promises nothing but ruin, yet it is so ridiculous, so ludicrous, that we can but smile at it.
Atalanta defiesthe pretenders to her hand to outstrip her in running, and kills those who lose.
With an inconsistency that defies explanation, they practiced upon others the same outrages that had been perpetrated upon them.
In itself and its pure beauty his poetry defies definition; whoever desired to recognise it at a glance and discern of what it actually consisted would see no more than "the brilliance of a flash of lightning.
But when once thought pronounces and says: "THAT IS" it decides for ever and ever, and the validity of its decision is guaranteed by the personality itself, which defies all change.
There is something about all the fine arts, of soul and spirit, which, like the vital principle in man, defies the research of the most critical anatomist.
He has talent, is well informed, and has an excellent heart; but there is an eccentricity about him that defies description.
Your Englishman, on the contrary, defies the tropical sun and scorns to make any changes in his daily habit that he had not fixed upon as necessary and proper before he left his right little, tight little, island.
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