A challenge and fight with Bowie knives, toe to toe, were the consequences.

There, beneath the shade of acacias in the daytime, or in the evening by the white light of incandescent gas, you may sit and watch the groups of men, women, and children all drinking from their tall glasses of beer, and you may listen to the whirr and ting-tang of the electric cars, where the challenge of sentinels or the cry of the night-watchman was once the most frequent sound.

A challenge or a combat a l'outrance, to extremity, was a fixed term in the law of arms, used when the combatants engaged with an odium internecinum, an intention to destroy each other, in opposition to trials of skill at festivals, or on other occasions, where the contest was only for reputation or a prize.

Paredes's clear challenge to the district attorney was the measure of his strength.

In proportion as our indulgence in luxury has been greater than that of any European nation, our challenge to every business must be the more insistent.

In such a case the challenge of Goethe is apropos, "What have I to do with names when it is a work of the spirit I am considering?"

But the challenge is no wrong done to England, and the idea that it ought to be resented is unworthy of British traditions.

The Greek dreams with sullen intensity of a golden age before the Bulgar was found in the land, and the challenge implied in the revival of the Hellenic name, so far from being a superficial vanity, is the dominant characteristic of the nationalism which has adopted it for its title.