14 Verbs to Use for the Word gages

With all her marvellous resources and that amazing war equipment of which you in this country know little, she will soon throw down the gage to England.

"We are now about to accept gage of battle with this natural foe to liberty and shall, if necessary, spend the whole force of the nation to check and nullify its pretensions and its power.

After a long pause Charles said: "Will Count Calli lift the gage, or shall we appoint a court of heraldry to determine whether or no the combat shall take place?" There was a whispered conversation among the Italians, after which Campo-Basso addressed the duke.

"It is not often a great people go to war for an idea, but we are taking up the gage of battle to teach our inferiors manners.

"Ay, master," said a son of Neptune, "but let me tell you, that will depend upon your having the weather gage of him.

Take up or leave the gage, Sir Count, and do one or the other at once.

Sa maison est composée de cinq mille personnes tant à pied qu'à cheval; mais à l'armée il n'augmente en rien leurs gages: de sorte qu'en guerre il ne depense pas plus qu'en paix.

C'est bien payer un fou; jamais bouffon de grand seigneur n'eut de pareils gages.'

Gauge and gauger are pronounced gage and gager, and sometimes written so.

Tous ses gens sont à gages, et personne ne mange avec lui que quand on est en prévenu par son maître d'hôtel.

Callahan's tank has been bone dry for twenty minutes, and he is watching the glass water-gage where the water shows now only when the engine lurches heavily to the left.

"I tell thee it is but the present gage of further payment.

When the America Cup was to be challenged for, into the breach stepped the Earl of Dunraven and flung his gage to the holders of the trophy.

Superior speed, where it existed, was used to 'gain the weather gage,' not in order to get a suitable range for the faster ship's guns, but to compel her enemy to fight.

14 Verbs to Use for the Word  gages