" The chief was riding his horse back and forth in front of his men, as if to banter me, and I concluded to accept the challenge.

* Augustus gave an admirable example how a person who sends a challenge should be treated.

" "But your friend?" The tone in which he spoke was insistent, almost insolent in its demand, and she hesitated no longer in meeting the challenge.

The rebels, behind a thick screen of trees, took up the challenge, and every sound was drowned in the roar of the artillery.

And in a while Beltane arose also, and climbing one of the many precipitous paths, answered the challenge of sentinel and outpost and went on slow-footed as one heavy in thought, yet with eyes quick to heed how thick was the underbrush hereabouts with dead wood and bracken apt to firing.

The eccentricities of this otherwise amiable physician now began to give serious annoyance; his jealousy of Shelley grew to such a pitch that it resulted in the doctor's giving a challenge to the poet, at which the latter only laughed; but Byron, to stop further outbreaks of the kind, remarked, "Recollect that, though Shelley has scruples about duelling, I have none, and shall be at all times ready to take his place."

Before they had gone far, however, they heard with joy the English challenge, "Who goes there?"

At the same time it must be confessed, that from the prevalent notions of honour, a gentleman who receives a challenge is reduced to a dreadful alternative.

Sílim could not, without disgrace, refuse this challenge: he descended from the fort, and met Minúchihr.

This was one reason Old Heck had so played the conversation that Dorsey definitely threw down the challenge and which was so coldly accepted.

In the Plaza of Molina at last he made his stand, And in a voice of thunder he uttered his command: To arms, to arms, my captains! Sound, clarions; trumpets, blow; And let the thundering kettle-drum Give challenge to the foe.

Every man is himself a class; every hour carries its new challenge.

And, O perpetuator of the Kuru race, braved by the heroic Pradyumna in that mighty battle, the angry Salwa could ill bear the challenge!

Nor did Fulvius decline the challenge; not so much from any hope of success entertained by himself, as drawn by the blind impetuosity of his soldiers.

But it was more than she could do: and she drew herself up and her eyes flashed back the challenge, as she said in a low but distinct voice: "Pardon me, but you are mistaken.

It seemed that nature had presented a challenge to the physicists which none of them were able to meet.

" "Ha!" quoth Sir Tristram, "and is there then no good knight-champion in this country who will rid the world of such an evil being as that Sir Nabon of whom you speak?" "Nay," said the lady, "there is no one who cares to offer challenge to that knight, for he is as strong and as doughty as he is huge of frame, and he is as fierce and cruel as he is strong and masterful, wherefore all men hold him in terror and avoid him.

And immediately the trumpets sounded a challenge.

She remembered his covert challenge at their last interview at Mr. Wilks's, and the necessity of reading this persistent young man a stern lesson came to her with all the force of a public duty.

East can't help shouting challenges to two or three of the other side, though he never leaves Tom for a moment, and plies the sponges as fast as ever.

Now, though Marcia expected no such challenge, she was game.

Your gun rings out a reverberating challenge, as your fatal bullet speeds on its errand.

On arriving opposite the rookery the stranger would utter a peculiar challenge.

Far, as we flung that challenge, fled the ghosts Back, as we built, the obscene foe withdrew High to the song of hammers sang the hosts Of Heavenand lo!

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