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- In Orlando's veins was Southern sap, mixed with Northern blood; in Orlando's eyes was a sudden look belonging to that which defies the law. [11]
- He is a traitor who spurns the King's honour and defies it. [11]
- As a mental tour de force it is without a mate, it defies alike the simple, the concrete, and the occult. [5]
- It was the thing that never dies, the love that defies injury, shame, crime, deceit, and desertion, and lives pityingly on, knowing all, enduring all, desiring no touch, no communion, yet prevailing--the indestructible thing. [11]
- The maudlin scene that met my eyes on deck defies description; some were fighting, others grinning with a hideous laughter, and still others shouting tavern jokes unspeakable. [9]
- By the strange telepathy which defies language, to the Honourable Hilary Vane, Governor of the Province, some such unacknowledged forebodings have likewise been communicated. [9]
- You have effected some change in me which defies analysis, a change of attitude,--to attempt to dogmatize it would ruin it. [9]
- I sought my room, almost suffocated by a heat which defies my pen to describe, a heat reeking with moisture sucked from the foul kennels of the city. [9]
- He knew his power; he knew that the Englishman's life was in his hands to do with what he chose, for the law of the harem which defies all outside law was on his side. [11]
- A nail will pick a lock that defies hatchet and hammer. [6]
- All the rest of them shirk the work of resisting gravity; the oak alone defies it. [6]
- One noble product of nature did not refuse to flourish there,--the tall, stately, beautiful, soft-haired, many-jointed, generous maize or Indian corn, which thrives on sand and defies the blaze of our shrivelling summer. [6]
- For the sake of beauty he defies every danger. [10]
- Genius defies the laws of perspective and looms larger as it recedes. [5]
- Whenever he meets Death he still furiously defies him--but Death patiently waits. [5]
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