We see the people of the cities drawing together, building walls around their towns, and defying in their turn their so-called "overlords."

The ordinary process of law was no longer adequate, and the fatal impression prevailed that the Government could be defied with impunity.

He felt that the deliberate cruelty of her words was of intent, an instinct of her brain, defying for the moment her heart.

O'er wasting care let croakers whine, Care we'll defy at forty-nine.

He was being defied aboard his own vesseland by a boy!

Will he search out some secret agency which will hold his body in perpetual youth, defying alike the attritions of age, and the ravages of disease?

The monster Sea-sickness had been defied on the balmy voyage, save in the brief interval of tempest, and his victors mocked him, baffled as he was, with their purpose of amusement.

Amazed at his presumption was the redoubted knight, whom he had thus defied to mortal combat.

* To win the favour of a very beautiful woman by one's personality alone is perhaps a greater satisfaction to one's vanity than to anything else; for it is an assurance that one's personality is an equivalent for the person that is treasured and desired and defied above all others.