32 Verbs to Use for the Word gauntlets

It was a good thing for Thurston and Fletcher that they had their studies, and Noaks the housekeeper's room, in which to find shelter, or they would have been compelled to run the gauntlet.

An English friend of mine threw down the gauntlet thirty years ago.

May I trouble you to hold him a minute?" Stafford held the lamb, which was tolerably quiet now; and she slowly took off her gauntlets, produced a little leather wallet from the saddlethe horse coming at her call as if he were a dogtook out a serviceable pair of tweezers, and, with professional neatness, extracted an extremely ugly thorn.

"At any rate, madame," I said, "I would ask that, in opening the drawer, you wear this gauntlet," and I picked up Godfrey's gauntlet from the chair on which it lay.

Waring tossed his hat to the ground and dropped his gauntlets beside his hat.

"At any rate, madame," I said, "I would ask that, in opening the drawer, you wear this gauntlet," and I picked up Godfrey's gauntlet from the chair on which it lay.

" He adjusted the steel gauntlet carefully to his right hand and sat down on the floor before the cabinet.

and, casting aside the ridiculous gauntlet, she caught up the packet of papers which lay within.

As he spoke, he drew from his pocket a steel gauntlet, marvellously like the one Godfrey had used, and slipped it over his right hand.

Even while I talked to the head of that nest of corruption, and listened to his inane platitudes about my duty as an inmate of a hospital to report abuses to him, and "the regular way of proceeding," I did want to hurl the gauntlet of an irregular defiance into his plausible face, but the pleading eyes in Campbell held me; I could not let those men die, and die they must if I must leave them.

" Hal accepted the gauntlet thus thrown down by Jerry, and was about to reply in no very polite language, when I changed the conversation, by requesting him to finish the narrative of his visit to the Apaches; and, after a little hesitation, he resumed his story as follows: "The Indian told me, that, if I spoke to Juanita again, he'd send a bullet through my head; so Anastacio said, for the Indian spoke in Spanish.

"I have left the gauntlet there on the chair, so if you feel like having a try yourself, Lester...." "Heaven forbid!"

It was not that he yielded to one of those fierce desires to lift the gauntlet; he had got rid of them in fair fight when her letter reached him, forwarded from Thrums.

On the 25th he was cutting his way through the streets and lanes of the city of Lucknowrunning the gauntlet of a deadly and unremitting fire from the houses en both sides of the streets, and also from guns which commanded them.

As I entered, I noticed Godfrey's gauntlet lying on a chair.

Mounchensey maintained his seat firmly in the saddle, though his steed had been forced back upon its haunches by his opponent's blow, who had touched his gorget; and riding on with all the ease, vigour, and grace, our young knight had previously exhibited, he threw down the truncheon of his lance, and opened his gauntlet to show that his hand was wholly uninjured.

1. 'He on whose birth the lyric queen Of numbers smiled, shall never grace The Isthmian gauntlet, or be seen First in the famed Olympic race.

That gentleman had thrown back his hood, pulled off his great moose-skin gauntlets and his beaver-lined cap, and now, with a little help, dragged the drill parki over his head, and after that the fine lynx-bordered deer-skin, standing revealed at last as a well-built fellow, of thirty-eight or so, in a suit of mackinaws, standing six feet two in his heelless salmon-skin snow-boots.

" She paused in the act of putting on her gauntlets and held one small bare hand under his nose that he might see how steady it was.

" "Very well," said Ida, quietly; and removing her right-hand gauntlet, she went straight into the drawing-room.

So he lay trying to fight the thought of Sally from his mind and concentrate on some way of getting back to Drew without riding the gauntlet of the law.

Carolyn June exclaimed feverishly, "it is because we are not used to itit will be perfectly all right when we have looked at it a little more!" Skinny decided he would risk the gauntlet of comment from Parker, Old Heck and the cowboys and wear the shirt the rest of the day.

His costume was just what it had always beenmoccasins, deerskin leggings, a shaggy forest paletot, and fringed leather gauntlets, which now lay by him near his white fur hat.

He handleth the Spanish pike to the hazard of many poor Egyptian vermin; and in show of his valour, scorneth a greater gauntlet than will cover the top of his middle finger.

The man drew rein when he had reached the train, turned, clenched his fists, shouted defiance, and shook his gauntlet at the towers where so lately he had been a guest.

32 Verbs to Use for the Word  gauntlets