My foes I boldly challenge, great and small, If there be aught in me they can in question call.

If these premisses be granted, 'tis no partiality to conclude, That our English Plays justly challenge the pre-eminence.

As I approached he came to a halt, and challenged me sharply.

"What! risk an empire on a woman's word!" Afrásiyáb replied, "So it is;" and instantly urged his horse into the middle of the plain, where he loudly challenged Kai-khosráu to single combat, saying, "Why should we uselessly shed the blood of our warriors and people.

The burgomaster was rather scandalized that such a respectable man as Jodoque should be out at such an hour; but when he heard the information, he grew considerably cold, and rather wished the French fleet would successfully challenge the place at once, and relieve him of his admirable chance of the halter.

Like Cicero or Demosthenes or Plato or Thucydides or Tacitus, Quintilian would be a great man if he lived in our times, and could proudly challenge the modern world to produce a better teacher than he in the art of public speaking.

We may safely challenge contradiction to the assertion, that at the expiration of the jubilee there were not a set of free laborers on earth from whom the West India planters could have got more work for the same money.

She was aware that she had definitely challenged the hazard of fate.

It was a day of thrills for them both when Rapp, Senior, publicly challenged and accepting with dreams of an easy conquest, bent down before the craft of Sharon Whipple.

Attention is rarely challenged by the sublime or the majestic, but is often arrested by some play of light and shade.

" "Well, notwithstanding thy caution, cunning Signore, I would hazard ten of the sequins thou art to pay to me, that I will go on the morrow into the crowd of San Marco, and challenge thee openly, by name, among a thousand.

And on seeing me from a distance, O Yudhishthira, that one of wicked soul himself challenged me repeatedly to the fight.

I have often heard Dean Stanley harshly spoken of, I have heard his honesty roughly challenged, but never in my presence has he been attacked that I have not uttered my protest against the injustice done him, and thus striven to repay some small fraction of that great debt of gratitude which I shall owe to his memory as long as I live.

Mr. Tutt examined him for bias and every known form of incompetency, but in vainthen challenged peremptorily.

hotly challenged the judge.

I have seen the gesture in experienced boxers and in men of business when openly or implicitly challenged.

Hence arose several battles of small account between the city and the camp, with varying success, as the generals were neither willing to check the small parties who inconsiderately challenged the enemy, nor to give the signal for a general engagement.

Lastly, and pre-eminently, I challenge for this poet the gift of imagination in the highest and strictest sense of the word.

When she played with me in Shakespeare she laughingly challenged me to come and play with her in a modern piece, a domestic play, and I said, "Done!"

Western Europe is apt to depreciate modern 'Hellenism', chiefly because its ambitious denomination rather ludicrously challenges comparison with a vanished glory, while any one who has studied its rise must perceive that it has little more claim than western Europe itself to be the peculiar heir of ancient Greek culture.

Something happened at birth; my brother was born retarded, mentally challenged."

He playfully challenged Miss Wilkeson to step into the parlor and take a glass of wine, and he would show her that he was not the brute she fancied.

But to J.W. the sermon was precisely the challenge to service he had been looking for.

"Sa-ay, I thought you said you was going to kill that greaser," he challenged quizzically.

" Undine, radiantly challenging comparison with her portrait, glanced up at it with a smile of conscious merit, which deepened as young Jim Driscoll declared: "By Jove, Mamie, you must be done exactly like that for the new music-room.