Lower classes intended mutiny

Usage examples of defiance.

Wetting her lips with her tongue, she lifted her hands from her lap, shifted the position of her coffee cup a bit to the right, then glanced up at Andi with what could have been defiance.

She seems resigned, and asks how I can thus set the storm at defiance.

They could feel the backwind as he flipped to the left and flew out over the valley, his defiance screaming into their minds.

On the campaign trail, Barnett was transformed from a kindly grandfather figure into a zealot of scorching defiance and ferocity.

It was a voice yelling a line from the new state song, a song that until this moment had been automatically connected to support for Ross Barnett and eternal segregation and the defiance of federal law.

The energy was gone, and in place of defiance, Bergen felt a wave of exhaustion.

Stimon the Locrian and Opilmenos the Boeotian, their bronze helmets and breastplates glittering in the sun, their speeches of defiance one to the other, the marvels of valour and dexterity both had displayed.

And a cry went up once more from the townspeople who had marched out to meet the mages, but even Cailin knew that this sound was not born of anger or defiance.

Men fell and horses died and the Cath trumpets screamed high defiance as Blade began to fashion a crude pontoon bridge across the moat.

Even Celestina Morton, who kept house for him and who might well have lost patience at his defiance of domestic routine, worshipped the very soil his foot touched.

The Comanche screamed his defiance of the Tonkawas, who had momentarily retreated, and charged them again with only a knife to defend himself.

The words sounded like a defiance flung at the two Catholics, and for a moment Domini thought that Father Roubier was going to treat them as a challenge, for he lifted his head and there was a flash of sudden fire in his eyes.

In their faces stem defiance, In their hearts the feuds of ages, The hereditary hatred, The ancestral thirst of vengeance.

In all there were a hundred clan flags upon that field this day, and the drums of each rolled out, incessantly, defiance of the enemy.

Throughout, his stubbornness, pride, defiance, self-reliance, and hardheadedness are revealed.