In our own time, you can hear Qoraishites, and even Alids, warmly defend the claims of the Turkish sultans to the Khalifate, as they regard these as the only Moslim princes capable of championing the threatened rights of Islâm.

It ought not to be difficult to convince him that there could be no wiser, no nobler way of championing the cause of Adelheid than by enabling me to perform the work I had planned.

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

It wantsto confess and have done with itall the penetrating subtleties of insight, all the delicacies of interpretation, you would have brought to Dorothea's aid, if for a moment I may suppose her worth your championing.

Doubtless if Pindar had been asked where the best servants of the state in public life were most likely to be found he would have answered that it would be among those ancient families in whose veins ran the blood of gods and demigods, who had spent blood and money for the city's honour, championing her in war or in the mimic strife of the games, who had honourable traditions to be guided by and an honourable name to lose or save.

By championing the cause of the "under-dog" in Centralia Smith brought down on himself the wrath of the lumber trust.

His fearless championing of the cause of the "under dog" had won him the implacable hatred of his own class.

Nor is it an accident that sees England and Russia united in the common cause of Europe to-daythat sees both championing the cause of small nations, one in the East, the other in the West.

Such as it is I send the book forth in the hope that it may add to the knowledge and appreciation of the character of one of the world's great men, and that it may, perhaps, be an inspiration to others who are striving, against great odds, to benefit their fellow men, or to those who are championing the cause of justice and truth.

They, on their part, were always zealous in championing the rights of the inventor, as the following letter from George Vail, dated December 19, 1849, will show: "Enclosed I hand you a paragraph cut from the 'Newark Daily' of 17th inst.

I am not accustomed to championing women.

Then we have had the surprising but welcome experience of Mr. Tim Healy championing the Government against Sir John Simon's attack on the Military Service Bill; and have listened to Lord Montagu of Beaulieu's urgent plea in the Lords for unity of air control, a proposal which Lord Haldane declared could not be adopted without some "violent thinking."

[-7-] These parties, accordingly, with the consuls as leaders made more noise than before, and so did the rest in the city, championing one side or the other.

It aspired to repay the Romaic race in adversity by championing it against its Moslem oppressors, and sought its own reward in a maritime outlet on the Black Sea.

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.