The consul of Catalans, with his countrymen and the Aragonese, undertook the defence of the great palace of Bukoleon and the port of Kontoskalion.

Elizabeth, indeed, was easily satisfied; she declared herself ready to receive the proofs against Mary, and absolutely refused Mary the liberty of confronting her accusers, and making her defence.

The king of Judah in this emergency showed extraordinary energy, stopped the supply of water outside his capital, strengthened his defences, gathered together his fighting men, and encouraged them with the assurance that help would come from the Lord, in whom they trusted, and whom Sennacherib boastfully defied.

When any person commences a suit against another, he sets down his claim in writing, and the defendant writes down his defence, which he signs, and holds between his fingers.

Mr. Blake arranged the order of the team, and remarking that they would need a good defence, put himself and Shaw as full backs.

There was one system only, and his failure to provide defences in depth cost him dear.

But I do know that the Pirsaheb declined to offer any defence and with perfect resignation he has accepted his penalty.

It is a passage from a speech delivered by the elder Liebknecht in the Reichstag: "As regards the defence of the Fatherland all parties will be united when it is necessary to meet an outside enemy.

Meantime Káús, this dire invasion known, Had called his chiefs around his ivory throne: There stood Gurgín, and Báhrám, and Gushwád, And Tús, and Gíw, and Gúdárz, and Ferhád; To them he read the melancholy tale, Gust'hem had written of the rising bale; Besought their aid and prudent choice, to form Some sure defence against the threatening storm.

My curiosity was excited to see what Rodwell would do with it, and what defence he would set up.

The Turks had constructed defences on these hills and held them with riflemen and machine guns, so that these positions dominated all approaches.

In the others, Greeks shared the command with foreigners, or aliens alone conducted the defence.

He was astonished that Holymead had taken up Birchill's defence, but Holymead's explanation was the somewhat extraordinary one that the man who had killed the seducer of his wife had done him a service by solving a problem that had seemed insoluble without a public scandal.

'If Ministers', my noble friend observed, 'had refused to offer such suggestions, and if, being called to account for that refusal, they had rested their defence on the ground of delicacy to Spain, would they not have been taunted with something like these observations?

A man might blur ten sides of paper in attempting a defence of it against a critic who should be laughter-proof.

They would not listenthey were so intent on proving the woman's guilt, they would hear no defence.

Americans have read most carefully the many defences offered by your Chancellor, your Minister of Foreign Affairs, your Under-Secretary of Foreign Affairs, your official spokesmen sent to this country, and your Ambassador here; and in the notes sent officially and directly to our Government by your Government.

On the 6th of July, I was arraigned in the criminal court, Judge Crawford presiding, on one of the larceny indictments, to which I pleaded not guilty; whereupon my counsel, Messrs. Hall and Mann, moved the court for a continuance till the next term, alleging the prevailing public excitement, and the want of time to prepare the defence and to procure additional counsel.

The next day was spent by the detachment in completing the defences, and collecting supplies and coolies.

"The law in England requires self-defence to be very clearly established.

The following example, from Pope, may perhaps be conceded to the poet, as an allowable ellipsis of the words "a friend," after is: "In who obtain defence, or who defend; In him who is, or him who finds, a friend.

Commerce was encouraged, and she girt her island around with those "wooden walls" which have proved England's impregnable defence against every subsequent combination of tyrants and conquerors.

The left group defied the nests of machine guns hidden among the rocks and broke down the defence.

[p]; and the inferior gentry, as well as the people, finding no defence from the laws during this total dissolution of sovereign authority, were obliged for their immediate safety, to pay court to some neighbouring chieftain, and to purchase his protection, both by submitting to his exactions, and by assisting him in his rapine upon others.

The magistrate shook his head, and merely asked Mr. Lethbridge if he intended to reserve his defence.