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To’ Mûda Long, Bâyan the Paroquet, and the rest of the up-country natives, who had accompanied us down river to Pĕkan, remained in the Râja's enclosure to act as his body-guard and boat crew, and they had not been long at Pĕkan before the girls of the town began to send challenges to them, for Malay women dearly love a change, and these men were all strangers newly come among them.
Suppose, Tom, that you and your friends are pitted against an immense invader suppose you are bent on holding the ground, and dying there, if need be suppose it is life, freedom, honor, home, you are fighting for, and there is a death dealing sword or rifle in your hand, with which you are going to resist some tremendous enemy who challenges your championship on your native shore?
"He means himself," whispered Henry Scott, to his next neighbor; and here he was right. "Is that all?" asked Sam Pomeroy. "No; as there will be some expenses, there must be a treasurer to receive and take care of the funds, and we shall need a secretary to keep the records of the club, and write and answer challenges." "Boys," said the chairman, "you have heard Tom Pinkerton's remarks.
Instead, we must go forward as one America, one nation working together to meet the challenges we face together. Self-reliance and teamwork are not opposing virtues; we must have both.
Every night at eleven o'clock, the warder on guard at the Bloody Tower challenges the Chief Warder, who passes bearing the keys. Each time this conversation follows: "Who goes there?" "Keys." "Whose keys?" "King Edward VII's keys." "Advance King Edward VII's keys, and all's well." Not until then, may the keys in the Chief Warder's care be allowed to pass on.
The church towers were beginning to clang with the first calls to the mass of sunrise, some of the bells droning and indistinct like the voices of old women, others shrill and high pitched like the chirping of children. From roof to roof their city quarters cocks were exchanging strident challenges to battle.
When thus exhibited in its true and genuine characters, it commands the respect of every sound understanding, and challenges the assent of all to its reality and its truth, as the highest principle that can regulate the conduct of a moral being.
More than that, when an attempt was made by outsiders, during the service, to inveigle the tethered goat into his old butting performances, and he took not the least notice of their insults and challenges, the epithet "blanked hypocrite" was added to his title. Had he really reformed?
The challenges before us will be thrashed out with the House and the Senate. We must bring the Federal budget into balance. And we must ensure that America stands before the world united, strong, at peace, and fiscally sound. But, of course, things may be difficult. We need compromise; we have had dissension. We need harmony; we have had a chorus of discordant voices.
Yea, and being heightened and improved, let what search there can by it be made into this love and grace. "That which is afar off, and exceeding deep, who can find out?" But at present we will proceed to particular challenges for the making out of this, and then we will urge those reasons that will be for the further confirmation of the whole.
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