... Cuirass: defensive armor, covering the body from theneck to the girdle... 
George Grote 「The Two Great Retreats of History」
...My men seized their javelins, and stood on the defensive, while the young Chiboque had drawn their swords and brandished them with great fury...
David Livingstone 「Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa」
...I was strictly on the defensive, preventing him from injuring me, rather than trying to injure him...
Frederick Douglass 「My Bondage and My Freedom」
...These form its defensive armour, for,although the manis possesses powerful claws, it never uses themfor offence, but when attacked rolls itself into a ball...
Robert A. Sterndale 「Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon」
...Ink-sac, a defensive structure found in the squid...
Worrallo Whitney 「A Guide for the Study of Animals」
...There isno other defensive precaution; no barricade, no heap of shavings...
Jean Henri Fabre Alexander Teixeira de Mattos 「The Glow-Worm and Other Beetles」
... The larger seem even to have forgotten what they knew so well in their youth: the defensive art of coiling themselves up...
J. Henri Fabre 「More Hunting Wasps」
...On the approach of the Wasp, she rises and assumes a defensive attitude, just like that of the Lycosa...
J. Henri Fabre 「More Hunting Wasps」
...The defensive fortification was the finishing-touch to the original structure...
J. Henri Fabre 「Bramble-bees and Others」
...Tradition has retained in a simplified form,the ancient defensive apparatus of which Pliny speaks...
J. H. Fabre 「The Wonders of Instinct」
...The mother's defensive posture was to cover the young with her body,often lying over them and facing upward, toward the investigator...
Charles L. Douglas 「Comparative Ecology of Pinyon Mice and Deer Mice in Mesa Verde National Park, Colorado」
...One of the large males displayed a defensive behavior prior to capture...
William E. Duellman 「Amphibians and Reptiles of the Rainforests of Southern El Peten, Guatemala」
...All cats,on first taking possession with their owners, of a house, are obliged toenter into an alliance, offensive and defensive, with the olderinhabitants of the neighbourhood...
R. Lee 「Anecdotes of the Habits and Instinct of Animals」
...It is vain to strike him or to rub him on the earth; he remains on the armed defensive...
Frédéric Houssay 「The Industries of Animals」
...Apparently this lighting up is a defensive measure, for the birds have nothing to do at night except to sleep, and must be rather incommoded than cheered by this light...
Frédéric Houssay 「The Industries of Animals」
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