99 collocations for contest

Jesus Montaña, first proprietor of Greenfields,you can see at once that Judson had the racial advantage,contesting the right with him, walked into five of Judson's bullets and his eternal possessions on the same occasion.

" Broken in spirit as he was by preceding humiliations, the old lawyer had not the heart to contest the point, and it was agreed, that, upon the arrival of Miss CAROWTHERS from Bumsteadville, she and FLORA should accept the memorable room in question.

And sealing wax; contest selection arr.

For at Mohammed's death the Medinese began fiercely contesting the claims of the Qoraishites; and during the reign of Alî, the fourth Khalîf, the Khârijites rebelled, demanding, as democratic rigorists, the free election of khalîfs without restriction to the tribe of Qoraish or to any other descent.

To contest the election of an emperour, once invested and acknowledged, would be to overthrow the whole Germanick constitution.

During that afternoon it was all we could do to hold our own in fighting the mounted warriors, who were in our front and contesting every inch of the ground.

Clerambault never thought of contesting his superiority; he was much more likely to use his fists to convince anyone who denied it.

When we were about to depart, we found that Rasay had been beforehand with us, and that all was paid: I would fain have contested this matter with him, but seeing him resolved, I declined it.

Laughter was Fanny's by undoubted right, unless her companion could contest the palm.

On the eighth of July, it was reported that the English were only a few miles from the fort, which they would probably invest the next day, and M. de Beaujeu, a captain of the regulars, asked the commandant for permission to prepare an ambuscade and contest the second passage of the Monongahela.

If I'd contested the case you know what the result would have been.

But it was not a matter of great importance at that time if the stock was mislaid, since there was no one to contest my ownership of it.

The German Navy, in his opinion, was "a jolly fine Service," worthy in high courage and skill to contest with us the supremacy of the seas.

Although five hundred thousand francs seemed little to him, he consented to everything, in order to make his daughter a baroness, and such she became;who would dare contest her title?

Another fellow was contesting his patent and fighting hard to head him off.

The late Lord Coleridge, eulogizing Oxford, said in his most dulcet tone, "I speak not of this college or of that, but of the University as a whole; and, gentlemen, what a whole Oxford is!" The admirable Mr. Brooke, when he purposed to contest the Borough of Middlemarch, found Will Ladislaw extremely useful, because he "remembered what the right quotations areOmne tulit punctum, and that sort of thing."

Next to Trajan was Hezekiah, whose penitence delayed for him the hour of his death: next Hezekiah, Constantine, though, in letting the pope become a prince instead of a pastor, he had unwittingly brought destruction on the world: next Constantine, William the Good of Sicily, whose death is not more lamented than the lives of those who contest his crown and lastly, next William, Riphaeus the Trojan.

According to the general view among the Chinese, Lao Tz[)u] was an older contemporary of Confucius; recent Chinese and Western research (A. Waley; H.H. Dubs) has contested this view and places Lao Tz[)u] in the latter part of the fourth century B.C., or even later.

© 1Dec25, A880586. R105601, 12Jan53, Lilian Holmes Strack (A) Contest winners for prize speaking.

Among that peaceful nation "which behind the rampart of its line of demarcation observed with philosophic calm how two mighty nations contested the sole possession of the world," nobody gave any thought to the great change of times.

His perceived closeness with BJP had probably started long before he joined BJP, to contest Cuncolim constituency on that party's ticket in the 1998 Goa assembly elections.

The Emperor never attempts or dares to contest their privileges.

Put her beside her rivals who contest with her the prize for beauty, and though she may lose that reputation of which she appears so jealous, though she compromise herself a thousand times, nothing is equal in her opinion to see herself preferred to others.

Many evils were certainly got rid of by this alterationthe jolting motion from stone to stonethe slipperiness and unevenness of the roadand the chance, in case of an accident, of contesting the hardness of your skull with a mass of stone, which seemed as if it were made on purpose for knocking out people's brains.

On their part they contest the facts, deny the accuracy of the conclusions, and appeal to the record, to reason, and to the sense of justice of His Majesty's Government on a more mature consideration of the case for their justification.

99 collocations for  contest