Mary could not help laughing; but her eyes were still keen and challenging as she said, "Perhaps you'd better change your doctor again, Mr. Beaumaroy.

" He sensed something provocative and challenging in her voice, but he would not play up.

This man thinking to curry favor with the suitors, and recommend himself especially to such a great lord as Antinous was, began to revile and scorn Ulysses, putting foul language upon him, and fairly challenging him to fight with the fist.

Great ideas are abroad, challenging the encounter of youth.

The Guerriere had made herself very obnoxious in her way of challenging American vessels.

Just because of that story about your first husband's death that Dick's hateful cousin spread about on our wedding-day?" Ina looked at her with searching, challenging eyes, and Avery felt suddenly as if she were the younger and weaker of the two.

Behind a counter stood a second, as motionless as an obelisk in the half gloom of the dimly illuminated room, his evil face challenging Howland as he entered.

It is a question whether she is more troubled with the Devil, or the Devil with her: she is always challenging and daring him, and her weapon

The rifle spoke from the shoulder of Shorty, but the stallion neither fell nor fled, and his challenging neigh rang faintly down to them.

He was standing there smiling at her, and to her agitated brain it seemed that in his smile there was something sardonic, defying, challenging.

The island rose in changing shape from the soft Pacific sea, here sheer and challenging, there sloping gently from mountain height to ocean sheen; different all about, altering with hiding sun or shifting view its magic mold, with moods as varied as the wind, but ever lovely, alluring, new.

And then suddenly the eyelids quivered, and the great blue eyes looked up at him, lovingly, appealingly, half deprecating, half challenging, her whole soul in a glance.

At length, summoning up courage he entered the mystic cell, and commenced challenging the assistance of the Spirit of the Mountain in the following words: "In the name of the Genius of the Dale

Her eyes were bold, challenging, of a calm seductiveness.

Russia, seeking an economic outlet, had sapped her way south to the Euxine shore, and was on the point of challenging the Osmanli right to that sea.

I ken ithers will be challenging her.

The Apologia was read with the keenest interest by those who most differed from the writer's practical conclusions; twenty years had elapsed since he had taken the unpopular step which seemed to condemn him to obscurity; and now he emerged from it, challenging not in vain the sympathy of his countrymen.

"I didn't know you intended staying at Flint's all night," Mrs. Richards began, fixing Claire with a challenging gaze.

But when he heard those first exultant, challenging bars he scowled inimically.

She was facing him demurely but exultantly, challenging him, he could see, to read her now.

She really seems to him superior to every one in the world, and he would be ready any moment to join the ranks of the mediaeval knights who translated amorous hyperbole into action, challenging every knight to battle unless he acknowledged the superior beauty of his lady.

"Priceless," repeated Mr. Tredgold, in challenging tones.

Dogs crowded forward in the dusk, challenging the strange riders.

These tactics were continued during the night and all the next day, much to the disgust of the soldiers, who, wounded, weary, and hungry, without hope of rescue, heard the yells of the savages challenging them to come out of their camp.

And the circle of savages began to sway in rhythm to her chanting, answering back, calling their challenge from clan to clan; until, suddenly, the Senecas sprang to their feet and drove their hatchets into the war-post, challenging the Lenape with their own battle-cry: "Yoagh!