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I made them biscuits." She challenged his opinion, as he well knew. "They're first rate," he admitted, and they were friends. She watched him eat with apparent satisfaction. "Say, I can't stay here, I'll freeze. Are yeh going to be here till noon?" "Yes." "Well, when I whistle you come in and get some grub, will yeh?" Bradley smiled back at her laughing face. "This ain't your folks' wood pile."
The former boarded the latter in search of deserters, and on being challenged, gave the Chesapeake a broadside. While the Leopard was clearly in the wrong, the United States Government rejected every offer of reparation made by Britain. Then came retaliation.
Challenged by her initiative to a kind of language that threw Redworth out, he declaimed: 'We pace with some who make young morning stale. 'Oh! stale as peel of fruit long since consumed, she chimed. And go they proceeded; and they laughed, Emma smiled a little, Redworth did the same beneath one of his questioning frowns a sort of fatherly grimace.
The finely moulded arms and the gracefulness of body, indicated rather than revealed beneath her blue gown, intrigued the eye and the senses, just as the swiftly spoken words challenged the brain and infused exasperation in the very midst of admiration. The complicated elements of the girl offered a peculiar fascination to the eternal instinct of study possessed by the young American author.
Where when they were spending the time in quiet in their quarters, a Gaul, remarkable for his size and the appearance of his arms, came forward; and striking his shield with his spear, after he had procured silence, through an interpreter he challenged any one of the Romans to contend with him with the sword.
Austen's drawing-room, with "Sidney Smith guffawing," and "other people prating, jargoning, to me through these thin cobwebs Death and Eternity sate glaring." "How will this look in the Universe," he asks, "and before the Creator of Man?" When someone in his old age challenged him with the question, "Who will be judge?"
Following as he did that horse, the diadem-decked Arjuna also turned his face towards the Kuru capital. Wandering at his will, the steed then came to the city of Rajagriha. Beholding him arrived within his dominion, O monarch, the heroic son of Sahadeva, observant of Kshatriya duties, challenged him to battle.
He challenged her to proceed; and she proclaimed him a Liberal Member of Parliament. William, nominally engaged in a desultory conversation with Aunt Eleanor, heard every word, and taking advantage of the fact that elderly ladies have little continuity of conversation, at least with those whom they esteem for their youth and their sex, he asserted his presence by a very nervous laugh.
They compared Jasmin to O'Connell; but the barber of Agen, by the power which he exercised for the good of the people, proved himself more than equal to the greatest of agitators. Sainte-Beuve quotes with keen enjoyment the bantering letter which Jasmin sent to Peyrottes, a Provencal poet, who challenged him to a poetical combat.
"But how did you get here?" rumbled the Cowardly Lion, who did not like being left out of the conversation. "I had barely left my father's castle before I met a stranger," said Sir Hokus, sitting up very straight, "who challenged me to battle. I spurred my horse forward, our lances met, and the stranger was unseated. But by my faith, 'twas no mortal Knight."
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