122 Verbs to Use for the Word champions

must dieunless thou find thee a champion.

In this strait, King Mark sent a letter by a messenger to Lyonesse, asking if there was any knight at Lyonesse who would stand his champion against Sir Marhaus, and he offered great reward if such a champion would undertake his cause against Ireland.

It is for Dulcinea to choose a champion to follow Studd's path and bring back his powder-horn.

Down from her rocky peaks Monaro will send her champions bold; Victoria will send her cockies, too, her honour to uphold.

SEE MCCRACKEN, HAROLD. Wilderness champion.

To meet the arguments of these reformers the slaveholders found among laymen and preachers able champions to defend the reactionary policy.

Of Vanini's two books, one was written to prove the existence of a God, yet here is Mr. Budgell calling him the most celebrated champion for the cause of atheism.

'You were chosen by your regiment to fight the champion of the Hussars of Chambarant?' said he.

"You have defeated the champion, so your title is undisputed," said Harris.

Only wise mothers can train champions for great causes like this.

The man who elects to breed Fox-terriers must have the bumps of patience and hope very strongly developed, as if the tyro imagines that he has only to mate his bitch to one of the known prize-winning dogs of the day in order to produce a champion, he had better try some other breed.

I am here, then, to thank you, not only as an Italian, but as a man, and I am filled with joy at the thought that the British, even as the Italians, are showing themselves to be, now as always, the champions of justice, and the defenders of liberty and right.

" Continuing, after diverse moral reflections, Nance made this appeal to her hearers: "You, you then, ladies, whose unquestion'd lives Give you the foremost fame of happy wives, Protect, for its attempt, this helpless play; Nor leave it to the vulgar taste a prey; Appear the frequent champion of its cause, Direct the crowd, and give yourselves applause.

They no longer felt themselves the champions of the good and the enemies of evil.

When a person could not himself fight he had to provide a champion, whose sole business was to take in hand the quarrels of others.

You see, you are responsible for our having lost our champion, so we really feel that we have a claim upon you.

mine is so meane, None will contend with it, it needs no champions.

We went several miles out of our route expressly to have an interview with so zealous and celebrated a champion of slavery.

"Bring out your champion!"

These two had been David and Jonathan from their little boy days, no less friends because they were so unlike; Marty, a quiet, brooding, knowledge-hungry youngster, and J.W. matter-of-fact, taking things as they came and asking few questions, but always the leader in games and mischief; each the other's champion against all comers.

But who can bear the hardy champion, who ventures nothing?

An answer came, so faint and hollow, that it might have been an echo; but suddenly he saw a distinct form appear, a mounted champion.

In this war Britain has proclaimed herself the champion of the small nations, and none are more deserving of her sympathy than the Slovaks.

They were sung in Greece, when he constituted himself the first champion of the Greek regeneration, which has now taken effect in the establishment of a free and a progressive country, with, I hope, a bright future before it.

In jurisprudence, which reluctantly admits any new adjunct, and counts in its train a thousand champions ready to rise in defense of its formularies and technical rules, the victory has been brilliant and decisive.

122 Verbs to Use for the Word  champions