This was spoken with a quiet defiance which Quentin could easily apprehend.

Although Con had acquiesced to her father about the dress, she went barefoot in quiet defiance.

You think' she breathed in quiet defiance, 'that I wanted him to do what he did?

Among the handful of American tourists who visited the sky-bridge, there was a quiet defiance.

He stared with quiet defiance into Maxwell's eyes.

"My son," said Claire with quiet defiance, "is not a troublemaker."

"Oh, you taught me, Father," Alexander replied with quiet defiance.

There was a bit of quiet defiance in her attitude, and she knew it.

Her chin came up and there was a quiet defiance in the lift of her head.

Though the man towered over her, this frail girl now faced him with quiet defiance.