"Defensive attitude" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... could settle on his chest, Ware was out of danger. But he went to his hands and knees in a defensive attitude that showed ...
— The Dozen from Lakerim • Rupert Hughes
... your pardon for troubling you with all this, Mr Neeld," he said, relapsing rather into his defensive attitude. "Madame ...
— Tristram of Blent - An Episode in the Story of an Ancient House • Anthony Hope
... headquarters promising the gallows to all who should be caught. News reached the French that Niagara was attacked, and that the army of Amherst was moving against Ticonderoga. The Canadians deserted more and more. They were disheartened by the defensive attitude in which both Vaudreuil and Montcalm steadily persisted; and accustomed as they were to rapid raids, sudden strokes, and a quick return to their homes, they tired of long weeks of inaction. The English patrols caught one of them as he was passing the time in fishing. "He seemed to be a subtle ...
— Montcalm and Wolfe • Francis Parkman
... were now free, and he placed himself in a defensive attitude; but Ralph Pennant, who was rather above the average stature, threw his arms around him, and he was pinned as tightly as though he had been put into a strait jacket. Corny was probably stiff in his arms from their confinement, and he ...
— Stand By The Union - SERIES: The Blue and the Gray--Afloat • Oliver Optic
... need of nursin'," said the old man, grumbling, and taking a defensive attitude of mind. "What's the use, anyway, if you can't get her? I'll contrive to get along somehow. ...
— The Life of Nancy • Sarah Orne Jewett |
