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Meanings of defy the world in English
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Usage of defy the world in English
1
No: here I can live, after a fashion, and defy the world.
2
Everything was solid, immovable, and it seemed fit to defy the world.
3
He could defy the world; he cared nothing at all for society or honours.
4
Jesus made them strong enough to defy the world and to capture the world.
5
But to defy the world upon nothing a year was out of the question.
6
A woman will take her stand before her own heart and defy the world.
7
It takes a cool head and strong nerves to defy the world's only superpower.
8
And, moving beneath such a splendour, how absolutely he could defy the world's opinion!
9
I defy the world to produce the nurse's equal.
10
Hortense Duval and Natalie Santos can defy the world.
11
This great tumult was only to defy the world.
12
I defy the world to say as I ever was guilty of an ill thing.'
13
She longed openly to defy the world-herworld.
14
I would defy the world with my passion.
15
Now I shall confidently defy the world.
16
The fact itself is utterly false, and we defy the world to produce a single proof of it.
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