I cried defiantly, taking off my glasses and, smearing the tears across both lenses with a tattered Kleenex.

Lex cried defiantly as she slipped under the heavy iron pot.

I cried defiantly.

I do not care,' she cried defiantly, glancing at her mother as she tended her chores.

-she cried defiantly, fighting not to drop' the one superfluous, protective word in that sentence.

"Wait until the others come," I cried defiantly.

Cally cried defiantly, as if directing the words to the ghosts themselves.

"You've nothing to say to me," she cried back defiantly.

Jillian Alanna Roderick, her heart cried defiantly.

'Never,' the woman cried defiantly.