40 examples of challenges in in sentences

By Fortune, the Rogue's looking for me; he has a Challenge in his hand too.

he said, a queer inflection that was half a challenge in his voice.

" He got to his feet with a laugh, and stood in front of Crowther with a species of challenge in his eyes.

Though you be never so much delayed you must not call his master knave, that makes him go beyond himself, and write a challenge in court hand, for it may be his own another day These are some certain of his liberal faculties; but in the term time his clog is a buckram bag.

" This advice seemed very good to King Clamadius, wherefore, when the next morning had come, he chose him ten knights from among the foremost of all his knights, and he bade them give that challenge in that wise.

But whereas Shere Ali had only whispered it to himself, Ahmed Ismail spoke it aloud, boldly and with a challenge in his voice, like one ready to make good his words.

Men and women contend for each other in the lists of love, like rival mesmerists; the active and adroit decide their challenges in the sports of the body; and the sedentary sit down to chess or conversation.

This Jest did not, however, go off so well as the former; for one of the Guests being a brave Man, and fuller of Resentment than he knew how to express, went out of the Room, and sent the facetious Inviter a Challenge in Writing, which though it was afterwards dropp'd by the Interposition of Friends, put a Stop to these ludicrous Entertainments.

In the streets below, for blocks in all directions, the crowds surged up and down, and shouts for Harwell and yells for Yates arose like challenges in the afternoon air.

So they accepted the challenge in lordly manner, and in due time the Palatiners appeared upon the floor of the Kingston gymnasium.

She began saying things to him on a rather more personal note, things with a touch of challenge in them.

" The clergyman received this challenge in silence.

Quick as a flash De Catinat had caught up the axe, and faced De Montespan with the heavy weapon slung over his shoulder and a challenge in his eyes.

Twenty minutes later Burns, who had just come in from supper, turned back from his desk with annoyance and challenge in his little, narrow eyes.

"That you can't do without me," he said, a note of challenge in his voice.

There was a challenge in her tone.

She stood in the sunlight with the old challenge in her eyes, and flash of her teeth; and so I shall always remember her, shining and unstable, like a drop of quicksilver.

On such occasions Mrs. Robson's frankness had almost a challenge in it; she exaggerated many details and concealed none.

Men and women contend for each other in the lists of love, like rival mesmerists; the active and adroit decide their challenges in the sports of the body; and the sedentary sit down to chess or conversation.

She flung up her head and met the challenge in her own way, which was with the knife-thrust of her light laughter.

He turned to Waring with a questioning challenge in his gray eyes.

All the notable men of science had gathered there, and the conversation took such a turn that Delsarte found opportunity to give, without offence, a challenge in these two lines of Racine: L'onde approche, se brise, et vomit à nos yeux, Parmi des flots d'écume, un monstre furieux.

There was a momentary challenge in her bright eyes, but it passed.

The challenge in that courage rare Courage defenseless, proudly bare Never could tempt him; he could dare Strike up the leveled rifle there.

Pull your gun and get out from behind the skirts of that girl!" As long as they faced each other with the challenge in their eyes, nothing on earth could avert the fight, she knew, but if she could delay them for one momentshe felt that swift moving form behind her slipping away from behind hershe could follow Barry's movements by the light in Daniels' eyes.

40 examples of  challenges in  in sentences