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Meanings of set at defiance in English
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Usage of set at defiance in English
1
Obstinate officials set at defiance the liberal initiations of the government.
2
Yet this small force set at defiance the whole army of the Peloponnesians.
3
This new man sought to set at defiance the customs of the range.
4
The laws being openly set at defiance, Washington determined to test their efficiency.
5
Simon Dowsett is not a foe to be set at defiance.
6
Perhaps that equity, half seen and set at defiance, which transcends human justice.
7
Love, outraged and set at defiance, bides his time, and takes his revenge.
8
He doesn't like to be despised and set at defiance-whodoes?
9
He had been set at defiance, and publicly insulted, and Davoust still lived!
10
The Indians had been barbarously treated, and all authority had been set at defiance.
11
Here they set at defiance the countless host of enemies, many of whom had firearms.
12
All law, order, and decency were set at defiance.
13
On what ground can religion or morality rest, when justice is thus set at defiance?
14
I won't have my mother's authority set at defiance by you or any one else.
15
All the precepts of common sense seem set at defiance by some passages of the Book.
16
The treaties had been completely set at defiance.
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