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  • There the soul stands trembling, and the conscience witnesseth and approveth all that the word challengeth of, so that the sinner’s mouth is stopped, and can have no excuse to this accusation.

    The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning Hugh Binning 1640

  • Ephemerus in Aristaenetus, so far admireth his mistress 'good parts, that he makes proclamation of them, and challengeth all comers in her behalf.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • For seeing the ghostly power challengeth the right to declare what is sin, it challengeth by consequence to declare what is law, sin being nothing but the transgression of the law; and again, the civil power challenging to declare what is law, every subject must obey two masters, who both will have their commands be observed as law, which is impossible.

    Leviathan 2007

  • And therefore when the Pope challengeth supremacy in controversies of manners, he teacheth men to disobey the civil sovereign; which is an erroneous doctrine, contrary to the many precepts of our Saviour and his

    Leviathan 2007

  • Spinelloccioes wife challengeth the jewel, then which kind of recompence, nothing can be more welcom to women.

    The Decameron 2004

  • But that all occasions of the last aboue mentioned diminution may bee preuented for the time to come, the sayd ambassadors doe demand to haue from the foresayd societie a declaration in writing, what and what maner of territories, cities, townes, villages or companies they be, for which the sayd society challengeth and pretendeth, that they ought to enioy the priuiledges granted vnto their marchants, as is aboue mentioned.

    The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003

  • ¶ For all manner of trespass, whether it be for ox, for ass, for sheep, for raiment, or for any manner of lost thing, which another challengeth to be his, the cause of both parties shall come before the judges; and whom the judges shall condemn, he shall pay double unto his neighbor.

    Exodus 22. 1999

  • And deprived of his senses by Fate, he challengeth the very gods.

    The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 1 Books 1, 2 and 3 Kisari Mohan [Translator] Ganguli

  • If, however, he challengeth me, I will never refuse.

    The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 1 Books 1, 2 and 3 Kisari Mohan [Translator] Ganguli

  • If, however, he challengeth me, I will never refuse.

    The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa Translated into English Prose Sabha Parva Kisari Mohan [Translator] Ganguli

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