That to interpellate is to question as of unchallenged right, as in a deliberative body.

" Etta allowed this statement to pass unchallenged.

Open any book or periodical, and see how frequently the writer does not, cannot, mean what he says; and you will observe that in general the defect does not arise from any poverty in our language, but from the habitual carelessness which allows expressions to be written down unchallenged provided they are sufficiently harmonious, and not glaringly inadequate.

Ever since then I have believed all the stories told me about spies who walked where they chose unchallenged during wartime; for we threea Sikh enlisted man, an Australian disguised as an Arab, and an American in civilian clothesentered unannounced and unwatched the building where every secret of the Near East was pigeonholed.

The sovereignty of the crown is everywhere unchallenged.

This statement is true, but not unchallenged.

You did not come as near to Sainte Marie unchallenged, and yet De Lannes is as old a soldier as La Noue.

With a score of other warriors he raised a great log from the edge of the forest, and crossing the open space unchallenged, he and his men rushed it against the door with such violence as to crack the bar across and tear the wood from the hinges.

For the purposes of this narrative, it is sufficient to assert only, what is unchallenged, that he was a sincere admirer of the Mormons as a people, and for a long series of years had defended them from every reproach with a zeal which many of his friends thought inordinate.

The machine rasped unchallenged through a dozen revolutions.

It was not, however, of this that Cato made his chief boast; but because he had administered everything in the best possible manner, had collected slaves and large amounts of money from the royal treasury, yet had met with no reproach but had given account of everything unchallenged,it was for this that he laid claim to valor no less than if he had conquered in some war.

But he felt so strongly on the subject that he couldn't let her remarks pass unchallenged.

Their constitution has lasted for a century and a quarter, and, in spite of controversy and even war arising from opposing interpretations of its details, its principles have been, and still are, practically unchallenged.

This day being a Thursday, Manuel and Niafer entered unchallenged through gates of horn and ivory; and came into a red corridor in which five gray beasts, like large hairless cats, were casting dice.

Indeed, in that event, German trade and German political influence would spread unchallenged across the continents from the North Sea to the Persian Gulf and the Indian Ocean.

For Servia might enter into special relations with her great sister Slav state, Russia, or a confederation might be formed embracing all the Balkan states between the Black Sea and the Adriatic: and, in either event, Austria-Hungary and Italy would no longer enjoy the unchallenged supremacy on the Adriatic coasts which was theirs so long as Turkey held dominion over the maritime country lying between Greece and Montenegro.

Even hunting, which it would have been thought every individual son of the soil would stand up for, is not allowed to continue unchallenged.

For a century the French had held adverse possession; for a decade and a half the British, not the colonial authorities, had acted as their unchallenged heirs; to the Americans the country was as much a foreign land as was Canada.

It was published somewhere in the Thirtiesabout 1835, I thinkand was sold unchallenged in England as well as in America for some forty years.

The jury convicted, and the brave old man, sixty-eight years of age, was condemned to four months' imprisonment and £50 fine for selling a pamphlet which had been sold unchallenged, during a period of forty-five years, by James Watson, George Jacob Holyoake, Austin Holyoake, and Charles Watts.

He and Mistress de Chavasse were closeted together for hours in the small withdrawing-room, whilst she was left to roam about the house and grounds unchallenged.

But Olympe's supremacy was not to remain much longer unchallenged.

He was fair enough to pass unchallenged among the fairest in the land, and yet a Christless prejudice had decreed that he should be a social pariah.

I passed her unchallenged, but, glancing back just as I turned the corner, I became aware that she was retracing her steps.

He donned it joyfully, entered the palace unchallenged, and passed into the banquet hall, where he perceived the gray-bearded caliph, and recognized in the bridegroom at his left the Saracen whom he had delivered from the lion, and who had so discourteously stolen his horse.