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Was there one that she had not defied? [10]

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In 1817, perhaps you remember, the law of wager by battle was unrepealed, and the rascally murderous, and worse than murderous, clown, Abraham Thornton, put on his gauntlet in open court and defied the appellant to lift the other which he threw down. [6]
He has scorned you for years, and defied you. [5]
Though the Duke would have defied them, it behoved him to end the matter, if possible, before these envoys' arrival. [11]
We are threatened with national annihilation, and defied to use the only means of national preservation. [6]
Some of these, when the drafting came, had fled in bands to the mountain and defied capture. [9]
The new Church was not born loose-jointed and featureless, but had a defined plan, a definite character, definite aims, and a name which was a challenge, and defied all comers. [5]
In her eyes was a helpless look, very different from that which she had given not so many days before when, with Orlando Guise behind her, she had defied her aged husband in his doorway, and her defiance had moved him from her path. [11]
Where yesterday her warlike temper had defied or resisted, to-day she retired with lowered weapons. [10]
This was in truth forbidden, but the unabashed old man defied the rules, and as for Ursula she was well pleased to be gazed at. [10]
Verily, here in this humble place dwelt a love that defied the hard usage of a hard world! [9]
The manner of these acts and the generous courage with which she defied opinion appealed to him so strongly that his heart was beating faster than Pepper's hoof-beats on the turf of the pasture. [9]
He had foiled them as to men they wanted; he had defied them--but he had helped them too, when it seemed right to him; he had sided with them once or twice when to do so was perilous to himself. [11]
The horses in the next chariot bolted as they were being driven past this mass of plunging and neighing confusion; they defied their driver's impotent efforts and galloped across the course back into the caiceres. [10]
How he defied the most determined of gladiators, and parried his strokes with his short sword! [10]
Tears of mortification sprang to his eyes, but he stood his ground and defied the mob right royally. [5]
The closet door slammed all night, and defied every fastening we could invent. [5]
He describes these Reformers in his own good-naturedly half-satirical way:-- "They defied each other like a congress of kings; each of whom had a realm to rule, and a way of his own that made concert unprofitable. [6]
As the case proceeded I was rather disappointed on the whole that he was not dramatic--not even as dramatic as he had been when he defied the powers in the Legislature. [9]
She was fully possessed with the idea that she had discovered the secret which had defied the most sagacious heads of the village. [6]
But the venomous population of Rattlesnake Ledge had a Gibraltar for their fortress that might have defied the siege-train dragged to the walls of Sebastopol. [6]
A few straggling pines grew near its foot, defying latitude, as the mountain itself defied the calculations of geographers and geologists. [11]
But one person persistently defied Church and people, Cure and voyageur. [11]
Typical as no other man I can recall of the code to which we had dedicated ourselves, the code that moulded the important part of the undergraduate world and defied authority, he regarded any defection from it in the light of treason. [9]
No antagonist worthy of his steel has openly defied him, worthy of recognition by the opposition of a legion. [9]
What a harvest of English strongholds we had reaped in those three days!--strongholds which had defied France with quite cool confidence and plenty of it until we came. [5]
Gen. Sutler, of Massachusetts, defied England, and they say he wants war. [5]
They were warlike little nations and defied, in those days, governments that overshadow them now as mountains overshadow molehills. [5]
I took my life in my hands, defied consequences. [11]
And let the lean years come,--she defied them to-day. [9]
Nobody in Washington knew what his opinion was--not one--nobody; he defied any one to say what it was --anybody--damn the one! [4]
Was He, as John had written, the First Born of the Universe, the Word Incarnate of a system that defied time and space, the Logos of an outworn philosophy? [9]
I have defied its infirmities, and forced it to do my bidding. [6]
She became limp in his arms, though making no attempt to escape, and he knew that the essential self of her he craved still evaded and defied him. [9]
And once, when Hodder was present, she brought back vividly to his mind that first night he had seen her, when she had defied him and sent him away. [9]
He has defied his Excellency's commands. [9]
It seemed to him that if she had defied him--given him petulance for petulance, impatience for impatience, it would have been easier to bear. [11]
Society had pursued her, fate had pursued her, and in a moment of delirium she had turned and defied fate and society. [5]
He had discerned her enemy, and defied his power . [9]
Three horses had he tired out and replaced by fresh ones, but his sinewy frame and healthy courage had till now defied every strain. [10]
Egyptian granite that has defied the storms and earthquakes of all time has nothing to fear from the tack-hammers of ignorant excursionists--highwaymen like this specimen. [5]
Last night he had talked with Suzon Charlemagne at the Cote Dorion; last night he had drunk harder than he had ever drunk in his life, he had defied, chaffed, insulted the river-drivers. [11]
So close he had been to her--so close that each had felt, simultaneously, complete comprehension of the other, comprehension that defied words, overbore disagreements. [9]
And now was flooding in on her the certainty that he had not failed her; that he had, with a sublime indifference to a worldly future and success, defied the powers. [9]
But she stood firm till all was done, and none but I was aware of her having defied the base foe with such true valor. [10]
Property, that sacred fabric of government, had been attacked and destroyed, law had been defied, and yet the City Hall, the sanctuary of American tradition, was turned over to the alien mob for a continuous series of mass meetings. [9]
He could not even decide which letter he was to write first: to his son, who had defied him and who (the father knew in his heart) condemned him? [9]
We have been defied to mortal combat, and yet we hesitate to strike. [6]
Thus sometimes he defied me, took on Protean guises, blustered, insinuated, cajoled, managed to make me believe that to starve him would be to starve myself, to sap all there was of power in me. [9]
Isidore, the youngest, defied a hundred of Robespierre's cowards on the steps of the Assembly, and was torn to pieces by the mob. [11]
She had defied custom, law, the voice of her own conscience, and she did not regret that she had done so. [10]
Amasis, in making choice of this queen, after the death of his second wife, (the Egyptian Tentcheta, mother of Psamtik the heir to the throne,) had followed his prepossession in favor of the Greek nation and defied the wrath of the priests. [10]
Yet the friendship between John Hodder and Eldon Parr defied any definite analysis on the rector's part, and was perhaps the strangest--and most disquieting element that had as yet come into Hodder's life. [9]
A hundred times before he had looked death in the face, and defied it as he would any other enemy, but now it seemed as though he felt the cold hand of the mighty adversary on his heart. [10]
The mortgage had been foreclosed, and the place had passed into the hands of Sophie and Magon Farcinelle; but Castine had taken up his abode in the house a few days before, and defied anyone to put him out. [11]
The warm blaze alone defied it, and leaped and sparkled merrily. [12]
Father Adolf had actually met Satan face to face more than once, and defied him. [5]
He, Denzil, was a Catholic, and he could not understand a man like John Grier who, being a member of the Episcopal Church, so seldom went to service and so defied rules of conduct suitable to his place in the world. [11]

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