The defence of German soil is a mighty and a far-reaching affair.

Welcker's defence of Sappho is a masterpiece of naïveté written in ignorance of mental pathology.

At the time when the Allied Armies arrived before it the only defences were an old loop-holed wall, a battery of fourteen guns and six mortars, and one or two batteries which were as yet scarcely commenced.

That gentleman is able to defend himselfand his defence is no business of ours.

And as in times when national defence and conquest were the chief desiderata, military achievement was honoured above all other things; so now, when the chief desideratum is industrial growth, honour is most conspicuously given to that which generally indicates the aiding of industrial growth.

I grant, my bargains well were made, But all men over-reach in trade; 10 'Tis self-defence in each profession, Sure self-defence is no transgression.

Carlyle's defence of slavery is a thoroughly ridiculous thing, weak alike in argument and in moral instinct.

I was foolish enough to break a lance in self-defence with this assailant, not having then learned that self-defence was a waste of time that might be better employed in doing work for others.

Here, as elsewhere, this defence was a necessity during the period of struggle, but became a crushing burden during the peace which followed victory, for the reason that it was regarded as inseparable from the wearer of it.

The defence of the British residency at Lucknow is a glorious episode in the national annals.

Defence, the (formerly the Mocha frigate, q.v.), becomes a pirate; renamed the Resolution.

The reader will see how little reason Mr. Rogers had to imagine that I had not read so far as to see Harrington's defence; which defence is, either an insolent assumption, or at any rate not to the purpose.

Southward of the central dwelling and its defence was the new ringed fort of Laogaire the king, son of the more famous king Nial of the Hostages.

We have no wish to deal harshly with this writer; but such an impudent defence of a palpable falsehood is a disgrace to American letters.

The defence set up was an alibi, and Cicero came forward as a witness to disprove it: he had met and spoken with Clodius in Rome that very evening.

Paley’s defence is the performance of an able legal adviser to the Almighty.

He never missed an opportunity of engaging in any feat of arms, and his famous defence of the bridge is perhaps the best known of all his exploits.

In her attitude towards the Powers of Europe and in her dealings with them Great Britain is the representative of the daughter nations and dependencies that form her Empire, and her self-defence in Europe is the defence of the whole Empire, at any rate against possible assaults from any European Power.

So long as defence of life and preying on outsiders were main concerns of society, unanimity and conformity had the same value which still attaches to military discipline in warfare and to team work in our sports.

Self-defence is not war, although the phrase is often used to disguise aggression.

Defence was certainly a legitimate motive for the building of the fleet, even if there had been no other.

The starveling wretch whose defence and plea are poverty and sickness, demands, and must have, in the name of humanity, an immunity from criticism, if not the patronage of the public.

E. Russell has it, "Self defence is the sacrifice which virtue must make!"Russell's Abridgement of Murray's Gram., p. 116.

Localised defence is a near relation of passive defence.

Your case no tame expedients will afford: Resolve on death, or conquest by the sword, Which for no less a stake than life you draw; And self-defence is nature's eldest law.