The room is heavy with vapour that clutches at the throat, for every cranny and interstice is covered with fragments of old sacking defying the passage of the night air.

But as the success of Americans in withstanding the unconstitutional pretensions of the crown was greatly favoured by the barrier of the ocean, so the success of Englishmen in defying the enemies of their freedom has no doubt been greatly favoured by the barrier of the British channel.

Arminius stood on the other bank, threatening the renegade, and defying him to battle.

All about him was a lustily masculine phase of the world, giant trees dominating giant slopes, rugged boulders upheaved, iron cliffs defying time and battling the years; he, like them, was virile, his sex clothing him magnificently.

"We each commanded a vessel which began a warfare on English commerce, defying all their embargo acts and neutrality laws.

"I have been on this platform for several days, defying any man to fence with me.

Mr. Carr also stood there, just outside on the porch, red, explosive, determined legs planted wide apart, defying several courtly reporters, who for a month had patiently and politely appeared every hour to learn whether Mr. Carr had anything to say about the new invention, rumors of which were flying thick about Park Row.

In declaring war upon local jurisdictions, whether of clergy, or nobles, or burghers, or independent shire courts, Henry was defying all the traditions and convictions of his age,an age when local feeling was a force which we are now quite unable to measure.

It was not intended by its framers to be the baseless fabric of a vision, which at the touch of the enchanter would vanish into thin air, but a substantial and mighty fabric, capable of resisting the slow decay of time and of defying the storms of ages.

Death defying, reckless, and laughing at peril, they have never failed; they have never pulled leather.

thy strength defying, For my sport, I'll scorch thee yet!

Firmest stronghold, all defying, Ever is man's iron breast!

'Tis hard, I know, from demons to get free, The mighty spirit-bond by force untying; Yet Care, I never will acknowledge thee, Thy strong in-creeping, potency defying.

CHAPTER XIX HERVEY TAKES A TRICK The night before, when Perris rode off from the ranchhouse after defying Hervey and his men, his hoofbeats had no sooner faded to nothing than the cowpunchers swarmed out from the patio and into the open; as though they wished to put their heads together and plan the battle which the command of Hervey, to-night, had postponed.

In her heart she would have been glad to see him breaking the rules, defying the doctors, and bullying his nurses.

defying excommunications, trading in benefices, hiring the clergy for your puppets and flatterers, making the ministry, the episcopate itself, a lumber-room wherein to stow away the idiots and spendthrifts of your families, the confidants of your mistresses, the cast-off pedagogues of your boys? Omnes.

"I get on in the world by defying its old notions, and taking nobody's advice but my own.

Herod is throned in one corner of the composition; before him stand a group of men and women, some imploring the tyrant for mercy, some defying him in impotent despair, and some invoking the curse of God upon his head.

In the war of 1870-1 he showed France on her knees but defying the new Caesar, and arraigned Bismarck before the altar of Justice for demanding exorbitant securities.

It's Nature's laws, you know, you are defying.

A death-defying leap.

Perhaps she suspected that he had seen her crying, and now, attired in all a woman's wiles, she was defying him to believe his eyes.

I then pointed out that he was defying the law of the State which provided that a patient should have stationerya statute, the spirit of which at least meant that he should be permitted to communicate with his conservator.

An I.W.W. agitator, defying the posse, was handcuffed, loaded into a machine, and taken out of town.

It is a vast drama that the genius and patience of a Gibbon has alone been able to deal with, defying almost by its gigantic catastrophes and ever raging turbulence the pen of history to chronicle and arrange.