Her chin held defiantly high, she stood before him, decked out like a servant in a long, shapeless, threadbare black dress.

Her face stung as if he'd slapped it, but her eyes held defiantly to his.

Her chin held defiantly up, the woman glared back.

"Well, no one saw me," Simon pointed out, defiantly holding his ground.

I still have a snap of you defiantly holding that mug of tea.

She stopped, two paces from the desk, her head held defiantly aloft, her eyes boring into those of the Empress.

To the north stood the towering mountains of the Spine of the World, their tops holding defiantly white against the coming summer season.

Instead of retreating from the thought, she held to it defiantly, pushing hard against the limits of the geas.

But instead of fleeing for shelter, people defiantly held their ground, chanting: "We must vote!

It was not Paley's mother who "defiantly holds a black woman's baby on a segregated bus," as you wrote, but Grace herself.