Elinor, her chin raised defiantly, said, "I bought some paste for sandwiches."

On the day of the trial Vera defiantly raised her hand to speak and looking the magistrate straight in the eye asked him on what grounds they were accused.

"You shall not take him from me," she screamed, her clenched fist raised defiantly.

Portland dropped the sheet and defiantly raised his eyes to Traynor's.

"Better to die on one's feet than to live on one's knees," Kor snarled, his blade raised defiantly in his gauntleted fingers.

She turned her flushed, excited face to Hercule Poirot with her chin raised defiantly.

Searles extended her right hand toward him, middle finger defiantly raised, even as she turned and slammed her other hand into the wall-mounted hatch-control mechanism.

"I've half a mind to go find out for myself, once I've been certified," she said with her chin raised defiantly.

Others defiantly raise fists.

Tarma defiantly raised her head again, and spoke directly to those star-strewn eyes, pulling each of her words out of the pain that filled her heart.