6125 examples of defends in sentences

The one aspiration of the Adorned C. is for a quiet life, and he defends his aspiration with bites and barks.

[All draw on Bellmour's sideDiana holds Bellmour, Celinda runs between their Swords, and defends Bellmour; Sir Tim.

Your Government executed a woman of noble character, and defends its act as perfectly legal and a "military necessity."

Englishmen blush at the memory of Jeffreys, but no Englishman ever defends that fiendish butcher of women.

We shall so far conclude these observations on the chimera of astrology and medicine with the following remarks in the words of Chamber against Knight's work, which defends this fanciful science, if science it may be called.

"It demonstrates nothing while it defends every thing.

"The most pleasant part, however, is at the close where he defends the art from the objections of Mr. Chamber by recrimination.

It is the law that Hand intends, Which fram'd diversity of sex; The man the woman still defends, The manly boy the girl protects.

Proceeding thence, he defends verse as being a far greater aid to memory than prose, borrowing his terminology of "rooms," "places," and "seates," from the mnemonic system of Simonides usually incorporated in the section on memory in the classical rhetorics.

When he defends comedy, Lodge drifts away from allegory.

Thus he defends poetry bcause it teaches morality by example and by allegory.

In the Preface to his Corsica, published twenty-four years before The Life of Johnson, he defends his peculiarities, and says:'If this work should at any future period be reprinted, I hope that care will be taken of my orthography.'

Brougham, Mr., afterward Lord Chancellor, the chief adviser of the Queen; defends the ministry for stopping Lord Powis's bill.

Denbigh, Lord, defends the employment of Hanoverian troops at Gibraltar.

Granville, Earl, defends life peerages.

Northington, Lord C., defends the embargo on corn; indicates the supremacy of Parliament.

Thurlow, Mr., afterward Lord Chancellor, on the case of Wilkes; defends the employment of Hanoverian troops at Gibraltar; denounces Fox's India Bill; approves of the King's employment of Lord Temple.

He defends empty space against Descartes and Hobbes.

In every abridgment of the supreme power, whether by division or limitation, he sees a step toward the renewal of the state of nature; and he defends with iron rigor the omnipotence of the state and the complete lack of legal status on the part of all individuals in contrast with it.

These various stages or faculties are, however, not distinct parts of the soul, as in the old psychology, in opposition to which Descartes emphatically defends the unity of the soul.

Richard Avenarius defends the principle of "pure experience."

The Giraffe defends itself against the lion, its principal enemy, with its fore feet, with which it strikes with such force as often to repulse him.

in the world is seen A miracle in action, that proceeds From out a soul which far as here doth shine.' The Heavens, which have no other want, indeed, But that of her, demand her of her Lord, And every Saint doth for this favor beg; Only Compassion our part defends.

Very generous and appreciative are her references to the lady novelists whom she defends, the excellence of whose work she maintains entitles them to the highest places as literary artists.

Call them not so, when once with odds opprest; Nor are they foes my clemency defends, Until they have refused the name of friends: Draw up our Spaniards by themselves, then fire Our guns on all, who do not strait retire.

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