" It was a direct challenge; she charged him with a lie.

" With this she darted out, running at the top of her speed, heedless even of the peremptory challenge of the sentries, who thought her mad or stricken with the plague, and made no attempt to molest her.

That night it so happened that I was placed in charge of one of the rear pickets, and I sat with my back against a tree, smoking lazily and wondering what the morrow would bring forth, when I heard a horse galloping down the road, and a moment later the sharp challenge of a sentry.

Porter's swinging sign, weathered and ancient like that of the Mansion's stable, said in bold challenge, "Ask me!

Where else should he have exerted pressure except in the quarter from whence a provocative, insolent challenge had proceeded?

The sudden challenge, her sudden discovery that he knew, made Dorothea gasp.

Dwarfing the town that to the hillside clings On terraced slopes, the castle, nobly planned And noble in its ruined greatness, flings Its double challenge to the sea and land.

And this knowledge extends, by allegory and experience, to areas far beyond digital culture, to the broader challenges of our time.

He did not have as far to go as Scrooge and his development was differently wrought; but both passed from weakness to strength and from isolation to service, the one through the ministry of a single profound experience, the other through the constant challenge of a high ideal.

On every side you saw people shaking hands, congratulating each other, and forming dinner parties for the evening; and nothing was to be heard but triumphant challenges of"Well!

Chivalry was not a thing she neglected; it was a thing that tormented her as any bully is tormented by an unanswered challenge.

That announcement was accompanied by an unexpected challenge from my friend Jasper to fight him.

Also in Cromwell's counter-declaration is a pregnant challenge.

John Callahan (A); 5Dec77; R682389. R682390. Gilded challenge.

Costly challenge.

She spoke in harsh challenge.

They exchanged the most superb defiances, the most audacious challenges, and proceeded from one country to another to run each other through the body proudly.

Therewith Sir Adthorp gave loud challenge to Sir Palamydes to come forth and do him battle, and therewith Sir Palamydes came immediately out against him, full of anger that Sir Adthorp should have meddled in that affair.

In the tone of his voice was a distinct challenge.

Several weeks went by, and M. de la Rue had not accepted the fierce challenge of Madame John's eyes.

I'll see that it is written on your tombstone!" The father, singularly affected by the mutual and enjoyed challenge that he was witnessing, half expected to see a sword leap out of the scabbard of the canvas and another from Jack's side.

She remembered his covert challenge at their last interview at Mr. Wilks's, and the necessity of reading this persistent young man a stern lesson came to her with all the force of a public duty.

Against it the Church ought to be the perpetual protest, and the fearless challenge, as it was in the days of the New Testament.

" Of course it was a foolish challenge.

The gringo would doubtless go to the rodeo, and he would meet him there without the spectacular flavor of a formal challenge.