A challenge to a duel had virtually been given and accepted, and everybody knew that the two men meant business.

" With this she darted out, running at the top of her speed, heedless even of the peremptory challenge of the sentries, who thought her mad or stricken with the plague, and made no attempt to molest her.

Thus a juryman was challenged in the MCFARLAND case merely because he belonged to Dr. BELLOWS's church.

Halliwell. 'Grandoes'I find the word so spelt in Heywood's A Challenge for Beauty'I, and I assure your Ladiship, ally'de to the best Grandoes of Spaine.'

"I've got here a challenge from Horace House to play a match against them, either on our ground or on theirs.

Traversing the same passages as before, save that a slight turn avoided the symbolic bridge, and formally challenged at each point as usual by the sentries, who saluted with profoundest reverence the Signet of the Order, we passed at last into the Hall of Initiation.

While men are men they cannot be sure that they will never be challenged on a point of deep and intimate concern, where they would rather die than yield.

Lepailleur regarded the creation of Chantebled as a personal insult, for he had not forgotten his jeers and challenges with respect to those moorlands, from which, in his opinion, one would never reap anything but stones.

He professed a theoretical objection to duelling, but was as ready to take a challenge as Scott, and more ready to send one.

He sends challenges by word of mouth, for he protests (as he is a gentleman and a brother of the sword) he can neither write nor read.

Jerome Hall (A); 10Dec62; R306543. HALL, JOSEF W. Challenge behind the face of Japan, by Upton Close, pseud.

That he would be a proof whether tyranny or liberty was established by the new laws, and whether the right of appeal and of challenge against the injustice of magistrates was only held out in idle words, or really granted.

"Well," quoth he, "let not that trouble lie with you, for it was we who gave you challenge without inquiry who you were, and you did but defend yourself.

He waylays the smaller boys to punch their unprotected heads, and calls challenges after me in the streets.

The discussion was long and stormy before the meeting broke up, and nearly led to a challenge between Moore and Hobhouse.

"Come in, you idiot," he challenged into the darkness without, "come in and take your medicine with the rest.

For those thou mayest not look upon Are gathering fast round the yawning stoneScott It wanted yet half an hour of midnight when I found myself at the shaft of the marble quarry, and before I had well set foot on the steps to descend, heard Elzevir's voice challenging out of the darkness below.

Not to sense that indomitable, insolent soul, throwing its challenge before it as it walked through the world!

He was roused from this pleasing anticipation by his irascible friend, Colonel Fitzwarren, who, without the slightest warning, flung a loud and defiant challenge across the table to Shere

" Put that way, he couldn't quarrel with it, though there was a challenge about it that chilled him a little.