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somethingdarker ([personal profile] somethingdarker) wrote2010-04-03 08:02 pm

Potential Titles: Defy

Defiance/Defiant.


For her ways defy conjecture - Ellen Tracy Alden "Little Florence"

No idea how to defy tragedy - Mouna Ammar "For Every Khala"

Slowly and steadily defying the sinking destruction - Mouna Ammar "Our Names"

Defying windy bureaucracies with their cadences - Mouna Ammar "Our Names"

Defied the mightiest tempest's roar - Anne Bronte "The Three Guides"

The darkening universe defy - Thomas Campbell "The Last Man"

My ghost defies them yet - "Datasonnet for Prince Giolo"

And bids their deeds the power of death defy - Luís de Camões "The Lusiad; or, The Discovery of India: Book I. Argument" transl. by William Julius Mickle

Might our boaster Stores defy - J. Dryden "To the Pious Memory of the Accomplisht Young Lady Mrs Anne Killigrew, Excellent in the two Sister-Arts of Poesie, and Painting"

Cards that defy arithmetic - William Hodgson Ellis "Horace, Odes I. i."

Draw my name in the sand and defy the rising tide - Ariel Francisco "time bending / tongue / entwine / the betwixt"

Though the silent mountains should defy me - Edgar A. Guest "If I Had Youth"

Whom Prometheus first defied - Luisa Hewitt "Ave Atque Vale"

What body defies the word? - Jen Hofer "future somatics to-do list"

Breasting the dark storm, the red bolt defying - "The King of the Mountain" Chatterbox: Stories of Natural History. 1880]

And still defy the crumbling touch of Time - Mrs. E.C. Kinney "Ode to the Moon" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.5, Nov. 1848]

Even the monsters we defy - Claude McKay "If We Must Die"

Smiled at the whirlwind, and defied the blast - Philo "The Tribute"

A celebration that would defy the gloom of the year - Alberto Ríos "Christmas on the Border, 1929"

This creature that defies dying - Nnadi Samuel "On the Shores of Ninevah"

Defy time and its hidden lords - George Sterling "An Altar of the West"

That must dare and endure and defy and survive - Arthur Stringer "The Meaning"

Flame will live, defying Fate's alarm - Carmen Sylva "The Glowworm"

My history defying assumptions of gravity - upfromsumdirt [aka Ron Davis] "The Hero with the African Face"

An axis we defy - Lyrae Van Clief-Stefanon "Pole| |Sport"

Defies harsh winter's knell - Harvey Maitland Watts "To a Roadside Cedar"

Which all their curs'd malevolence defies - L.A. Wilmer "To Mira" [Southern Literary Messenger v.II no.1 Dec. 1835-6]


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