There was a raw sincerity in Beaumaroy's utterance that made it a challenge.

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

And in the silence, Giles spake: "Now, by the ever-blessed Saint Giles, there spake the summons of Robert of HurstmanswykeI know his challenge of oldha, bows and bills!"

And immediately the trumpets sounded a challenge.

North and south, and east and west the challenge was repeated, and after each the trumpet sounded a warlike flourish, yet no horseman paced forth and no man leapt the barriers; and the witch Mellent drooped pale and trembling betwixt her warders.

Both men evidently heard the challenge, but she screamed to them again and again.

This action was at the same time a challenge to Quiroga in his neighboring domain.

"In this night of death I challenge the promise of thy Word!

Other new voices took up the challenge and within a few moments the roar of battle was at its height once more.

To arms, to arms, my captains! Sound, clarions; trumpets, blow; And let the thundering kettle-drum Give challenge to the foe.

In every tent was welcome warm; And when their challenge they display, The master granted their request To join the joust on Easter day.

With stately stride He crossed the level sands and wide, Then on his shield the challenge gave His broad sword thund'ring like a wave For single combat.

He heard The challenge, and nor spake, nor stirred, Nor feared; but now grown old, when hate And lust of glory satiate

He professed a theoretical objection to duelling, but was as ready to take a challenge as Scott, and more ready to send one.

The poet, who through life waited with feverish anxiety for every verdict on his work, is reported after reading the review to have looked like a man about to send a challenge.

The eccentricities of this otherwise amiable physician now began to give serious annoyance; his jealousy of Shelley grew to such a pitch that it resulted in the doctor's giving a challenge to the poet, at which the latter only laughed; but Byron, to stop further outbreaks of the kind, remarked, "Recollect that, though Shelley has scruples about duelling, I have none, and shall be at all times ready to take his place."

In February 6th he sent, through Mr. Kinnaird, the challenge to Southey, of the suppression of which he was not aware till May 17.

I have a month's mind to send him a challenge.

The reputation of Browne encouraged some low writer to publish, under his name, a book called Nature's Cabinet unlocked,translated, according to Wood, from the physicks of Magirus; of which Browne took care to clear himself, by modestly advertising, that "if any man had been benefited by it, he was not so ambitious as to challenge the honour thereof, as having no hand in that work .

But if these terms are true, they are a challenge to the Muslim demands.

IN PROCESS OF KEEPING The writer of 'Current Topics' in the "Times of India" has attempted to challenge the statement made in my Khilafat article regarding ministerial pledges, and in doing so cites Mr. Asquith's Guild-Hall speech of November 10, 1914.

We do not challenge the maintenance of the Turkish Empire in the homelands of the Turkish race with its capital at Constantinople."

In depth, in breadth, in vigor, in practical quality, this may challenge comparison with anything of a similar kind elsewhere.

I challenge you, Madam, to shew me but one of the many letters you have received from her, where I am mentioned.

But to give him his due, one well-furnished actor has enough in him for five common gentlemen, and, if he have a good body, [for six, and] for resolution he shall challenge any Cato, for it has been his practice to die bravely.