We find, too, that at the very threshold of the house she defies the one of the most time-honored institutions of our stage, by employing a pleasant and courteous door-keeperinstead of the snarling Cerberus who lies in wait at the doors of other theatres.

The judge settles it, right or wrong, for the law defies us all.

'The law defies us all.'

A nail will pick a lock that defies hatchet and hammer.

All the rest of them shirk the work of resisting gravity; the oak alone defies it.

The ugly and degrading surroundings of a life of poverty, the brutalizing influences of the unceasing struggle for bare subsistence, the utter absence of reasonable hope of improvement; in short, the whole subjective side of poverty is not less terrible because it defies statistics.

If fate itself opposes him, he defies it.

The atmosphere here, as above, is fairly heavenly in its purity and invigorating freshness; it girds us with singular strength, and clothes us as in a garment of enchanted armor that defies all soul-sinking.

Nemmir escaped up the country, crowned with savage glory, and married the daughter of a king, who soon left him his successor, and the Tiger still defies the old Pasha's power.

The calorous secret out, and in her possession, how she stumbles over her train to the back of the stage, there to pose in abject patience and awkwardness, while the gallant baritone, touching his sword, and flinging his cape over his shoulder, defies the world and the tenor, who is just recovering from his "ut de poitrine" behind the scenes.

Common errors are apt to conceal themselves from the common mind; and the appeal to reason and just authority is often frustrated, because a wrong head defies both.

Seize on the caitiff who defies my will! Guard ye the ways, and ward the passage there!

If thou dost not instantly comply with these just demands, he defies thee to single combat to the last extremity.

At a moment when everything trembles before the approaching horror, crouches in terror almost stupefied, faith alone has no fear; it defies, and rings a bell.

Upon a cliff that age and storm defies Its mighty image stands for evermore.

But there is something that defies all these forces of the New ...

Far from the sun and far from life, he defies death, just as the mason, poised on a slight scaffolding despises giddiness, watched only by the birds, surprised to see a creature without wings perched on such a dizzy height.

A picture stands before my dazzled sight, Wherein the hero, ruthlessly elate, Defies all bowlers' concentrated spite.

To say of this extraordinary work that it defies analysis would be the merest inadequacy of commonplace.

But he condemns their malice, and defies The sharpest of his censurers to say, Where there is one gross fault in all his play.

She disregarded me, continuing quietly; "But this much, however, I do understand, that our province of New York is the centre of all this trouble; that the men of Tryon hold the last pennyweight, and that the balanced scales will tip only when we patroons cast in our fortunes, ... either with our King or with the rebel Congress which defies him.

Finally, your proposition defies your grandfather's wishes, and it is altogether too generous.

My object was not so much to tempt the speckled trout with gaudy fly from quiet pool or swirling riffle, as to follow the windings of the stream, and spy out the quiet nooks, where the sun comes filtering through the trees, dappling the water; or resting in the shadows where the thick foliage defies its penetrating rays, and spreads a somber hue on mossy rock or bed of ferns.

He defies the Colonel, and they'll go at it hammer and tongs at the 'Sizes, and spend a mint of money in law.

Its component parts cannot be classified and tested, and there is a spark within it which defies foreknowledge.