" "You may kill every fowl i' the yard if you like, Bessy; but I shall ask neither aunt nor uncle what I'm to do wi' my own lad," said Mr Tulliver, defiantly.
" "You seem to speak with some peculiar meaning, sir," said Lydgate, rather defiantly, and keeping his pencil suspended.
"Then I dare you to do it," said Josie defiantly.
She meant to say it defiantly, but habit was too strong for her.
" Valancy had said defiantly, as she continued to say for twenty years, "I don't want a beau.
In 1774, delegates of the first Continental Congress – predecessor of the US Congress – chose defiantly to meet at Carpenter's Hall, 320 Chestnut St, rather than the more commodious State House, to air their grievances against the English king.
" he said defiantly.
