The king is deadthat stout champion who has delivered the land from such evil and shame, and plucked his spoil from the pagan.

He struck to right and to left, slaying many, so that the press gave back before so stout a champion.

In all the worldsaid these messengersthere was no such champion, nor so crafty a captain in the ordering of war.

This Gawain was a courteous champion, circumspect in word and deed, having no pride nor blemish in him.

Certainly each was a very worthy lord and a right courageous champion.

Arthur's household rejoiced beyond measure; but those of the city wept, making great sorrow for Frollo, their champion.

but they would know of his errand, for he rode to the mount to be assured as to whether he or the giant was the stouter champion.

All the press gave back before so stark a champion, till in his path stood neither great nor small.

This was heavy upon them, for each was a very courteous champion.

Such was Abélard's precocious ability, even as a youth, that no champion could be found to refute him in the whole of Brittany.

Again Beowulf goes forth to champion his people.

England had won India; but when Burke studied the methods of her victory and understood the soulless way in which millions of poor natives were made to serve the interests of an English monopoly, his soul rose in revolt, and again he was the champion of an oppressed people.

[This is the first letter to Novello, who was the peculiar champion of Mozart and Haydn.

For, in the language of John Quincy Adams, the champion of the right of petition, "The slave is not permitted to cry for mercyto plead for pardonto utter the shriek of perishing nature for relief."

As is ever the case when a man is young, handsome, rich, and holds proudly the gold medal which proclaims him the champion of the whole Statethe golden disk which many a young vaquero longed to wrest from him in a fair test of skillthere were those who would rather like to see José humbled.

And there openly, before all the people, you shall contest with José for a prize which I shall give, and for the medalla oro if you will; for you shall have the privilege of challenging José, the champion, to contest for the medalla.

For sport, that all may witness, and choose who is champion, after the bull-fighting, and the" "What are you talking about, man?"

The asonante is single here, consisting only of the long accented o, as in "ROme", "glObe", "dOme", etc. 15. Champion, or combater, the name generally given the Cid. 16.

The policy of the German and Austrian rulers was dominated by the reactionary Austrian Prime Minister, Prince Metternich, a consistent champion of aristocratic ideas and of the "divine right of Kings."

*Gómez Farías, Valentín*, Mexican statesman and champion of reform.

Now the champion attacks "New Views," "Ultraism," "Neology," "Innovation," "Discontent," "Carnal Reason"; then he lays lance in rest, and rides valiantly upon "Unitarianism," "Popery," "Infidelity," "Atheism," "Deism," "Spiritualism"; and though one by one he runs them through, yet he never quite slays the Evil One;the severed limbs unite again, and a new monster takes the old one's place.

Old Milo, champion of the heavy weights in his day, looked at his arms and whimpered, "They are dead."

But if your blood wants rousing, turn round that stake in the river, which you see a mile from here; and when you come in in sixteen minutes, (if you do, for we are old boys, and not champion scullers, you remember,) then say if you begin to feel a little warmed up or not!

Victorious army of Guatemala sends thanks to its brave champion.

For his dear mistressin the purest, loftiest sense of that wordhe stood champion, denouncing with all his soul the liar who had deceived and endangered her; a stern, unconscious majesty expressed itself in his bearing, his voice; and the man before himartist and poet like himselfwas sensible of it in the highest, the most torturing degree.