defy

“Well, then, wretches,” cried Danglars, “I will defy your infamous calculations—I would rather die at once!

In a former letter he frankly informed me that the name was not his own, and defied me ever to trace him among the teeming millions of this great city.

A mass of straight black hair, defying all attempts to train or curl it, fell over his projecting forehead, and hung down to his shoulders, giving increased vivacity to eyes already sparkling with a youthful love of mischief and fondness for every forbidden enjoyment.

There is no gainsaying the fact that a very unfavorable construction would have been put upon the circumstance if the two women had gone without escort, while the addition of a third, in the person of her mother’s admitted lover, enabled Mademoiselle Danglars to defy malice and ill-nature.