She remembered this as with a gush of defiant joy.

A canary was singing there, very sweet and shrill and as in defiant joy.

I could not resist such an appeal; and one of Josephine's little nieces having come to spend the winter with her, I hurried to Slepington,not, I am sure, in the least regretted by Mr. Waring, who had begun to look at me with uneasy and sometimes defiant eyes.

Dissatisfied with the existing order, their sympathies were with strong will and passion and defiant independence.

" She broke off with a forced little laugh, and awaited his verdict with defiant eyes upraised.

The "Confessions" are only a revelation of that sensibility, excessive and morbid, which reminds us of Byron and his misanthropic poetry,showing a man defiant, proud, vain, unreasonable, unsatisfied, supremely worldly and egotistic.

This temper, which he inherited from his motherpassionate, fitful, defiant, restless, wayward, melancholyinclined him naturally to solitude, and often isolated him even from his friends and companions.

The critic ascribes his power to ridicule,a Lucian, who destroyed but did not reconstruct; worldly, material, sceptical, defiant, utterly lacking that earnestness without which nothing permanently great can be effected.

Adj. threatening, menacing; minatory, minacious^; comminatory^, abusive; in terrorem [Lat.]; ominous &c (predicting) 511; defiant &c 715; under the ban.

" CHAPTER XIX SHOWS GABRIELLE DEFIANT Gabrielle crossed quickly to one of the long windows, which she unbolted and flung open, expecting to hear the shrill whir of the burglar-alarm, which, every night, Hill switched on before retiring.

" "That I certainly refuse to do," was the man's defiant reply, bowing as he spoke.

What are you standing here for?" She flung him a look out of her hard, defiant eyes; she made no answer.

There was nothing visible now of the whole dark structure but the two lamps in front, like the eyes of some evil thing, glaring and defiant, borne with swift motion down upon me by a power utterly unseen,it had a curious effect.

She stood rigid, defiant.

This sullen unrest and rebellion it was that, transmitted to his son, had made Buzz the unruly braggart that he was, and which, twenty or thirty years hence, would find him just such a one as his fatheruseless, evil-tempered, half brutal, defiant of order.

He detested his work,he detested his duties,he loathed his vows,and there was not a thing in his whole future to which he looked forward otherwise than with the extreme of aversion, except one to which he clung with a bitter and defiant tenacity,the spiritual guidance of Agnes.

Ruled by an absolute government, theocratic and therefore considering its authority beyond all human attack, but besieged on all sides by an invading liberalism, which had already captured all its outposts and undermined its position at the centre, it, still defiant, refused to make a single concession to the spirit of the epoch, and bade defiance to diplomacy and insurrection alike.

"So good of you to worry," she said, a defiant red in her cheeks.

Then came a full-throated scream of terror from the menaced house, and there in the doorway, clad in a bed gown, but erect and defiant, was the person of long-bedridden Grandma Dodwell herself.

The Kaiser executed a defiant caper under her very nose and then returned blandly to his vine pulling, sending a suspicious look after her from time to time as she passed down the hill.

Savagery personified, cruelty unqualified, deadly hate, primitive lustevery black passion lurking in the recesses of the human mind stalked brazenly into the open, stood forth defiant, sinister, unashamed.

In principle and purpose they enjoyed the abundant sympathy of the Pierce Administration; but as the presidential election of 1856 was at hand, the success of the Democratic party could not at the moment be endangered by so open and defiant an act of partisanship.

They have been reckless, defiant, aggressive; but, unfortunately for them, they have not been sagacious.

The careless defiant words wrought in him an unaccountable kind of terror: it seemed almost as if they had rushed of themselves from his own lips.

And because of the things she was angrily listening to, and because of her fear of a row, she sat there looking defiant and resentful, and spoke never a word.