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She turned her head and through her tears of relief saw the first challenger slowly sit up, then quickly grab for something on the ground
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Even as the Roman Imperial elite took over the main persecutorial role, the Jewish minorities in many different places and times found it expedient to cooperate in the suppression of this growing, then burgeoning challenger to their primacy in the Hebrew world
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And if a challenge to combat is refused, and the challenger has no grounds against the other for legal prosecution, that’s it, the challenger will just have to go home and get over it! Legal prosecution, insult, and honorable challenge to combat, those are the only three things one can legally do against another in a just society!
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Well, at least they’re soldiers, Moshe consoled himself as Youssaf, stopping just short of his challenger, waved the seal-mark in his face, ordering at the same time, “Escort us to your leader!”
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challenger, waved the seal-mark in his face, ordering at the same time, “Escort us to your
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3 How these chief priests, scribes, Sadducees, and some of the Pharisees flattered themselves that Jesus, the disturber of their position and the challenger of their authority, was now securely in their hands! And they were resolved that he should never live to escape their vengeful clutches
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The Challenger, and Columbia, were both terrible losses for our country
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between a McCoy and the challenger
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Toby, one challenger after another lost his and then later
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Anyone attempting to arrest him should be heavily armed, and preferably seated in a Challenger II tank
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Modi had positioned himself as the anti-establishment challenger to the old order
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Now the challenger was prime minister
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My dream of creating a viable challenger to Chubb in the Security Market had sadly
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Some say his biggest mistake was excepting a challenger so early after he won the belt
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When Sandhya proposed a challenge round, Roopa was not a game for it as she preferred to preserve the memory of their triumph lest they should lose the challenger
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Now, it was the turn of the second challenger, but would he change his mind after seeing the previous result? He was the richest man in Damascus at that time and had many factories in various foreign countries like Turkey, Italy, France and Switzerland, so a single golden lira was as nothing to him
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Now, it was the turn of the second challenger
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Aazuria stared at her challenger, her eyes flashing with indignation and pity
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Just around this time, the space shuttle Challenger blew up
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So you see, you have to be careful – depending on whether you’re the challenger or the challenged one, to maximize the respect you get you have to play with intentionally open cards or seemingly unintentionally hidden cards
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Then the public would vote on whether the challenger should be
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examinations were known the public would either vote for the challenger or the
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This point is called the "Challenger Deep" and is 35,818 feet deep
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viewed his challenger disdainfully – taking in the coarse
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mocking of a friend or foe, Hanor clambered to his feet and faced the challenger
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He is a lover of puzzles and a challenger of enigmas and
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Krista got back up to her feet holding the knife out, waiting for the next challenger, but the boys had enough
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He turned and addressed the challenger
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He shook himself a few times, and then pranced down the steps, snarling at the pack and at his challenger
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Stood challenger on mount of all the age
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The agreement was that they were to run a distance of a hundred paces with equal weights; and when the challenger was asked how the weights were to be equalised he said that the other, as he weighed nine stone, should put eleven in iron on his back, and that in this way the twenty stone of the thin man would equal the twenty stone of the fat one
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My decision, therefore, is that the fat challenger prune, peel, thin, trim and correct himself, and take eleven stone of his flesh off his body, here or there, as he pleases, and as suits him best; and being in this way reduced to nine stone weight, he will make himself equal and even with nine stone of his opponent, and they will be able to run on equal terms
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The president now enjoys a nineteen-point lead in the polls over Democratic challenger Walter Mondale, the fifty-six-year-old Minnesota native who served as Carter’s vice president
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Louis had battled his way through twenty-seven professional matches with twenty-three knockouts and no defeats to reach his current status as the number one challenger in the world
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The challenger, a boy of about sixteen, was hovering near the post, watched by the terrified cat
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Enraged, the challenger rushed at the post and butted the cat again
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What with the physical shocks incidental to my first interview with Professor Challenger and the mental ones which accompanied the second, I was a somewhat demoralized journalist by the time I found myself in Enmore Park once more
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"He is not a popular person, the genial Challenger," said he
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The greatest demonstration of all, however, was at the entrance of my new acquaintance, Professor Challenger, when he passed down to take his place at the extreme end of the front row of the platform
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Challenger smiled with weary and tolerant contempt, as a kindly man would meet the yapping of a litter of puppies
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Waldron looked with amazement along the line of professors upon the platform until his eyes fell upon the figure of Challenger, who leaned back in his chair with closed eyes and an amused expression, as if he were smiling in his sleep
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"It is my friend Professor Challenger," and amid laughter he renewed his lecture as if this was a final explanation and no more need be said
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Challenger levered his bulky figure slowly out of his chair
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Waldron sat down, and, after a chirrup from the chairman, Professor Challenger rose and advanced to the
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He wished, he said, to ask Professor Challenger whether the results to which he had alluded in his remarks had been obtained during a
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Professor Challenger answered that they had
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Summerlee desired to know how it was that Professor Challenger claimed to have made discoveries in those regions which had been overlooked by Wallace, Bates, and other previous explorers of established scientific repute
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Professor Challenger answered that Mr
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He would be obliged if Professor Challenger would give the latitude and the longitude of the country in which prehistoric animals were to be found
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Professor Challenger replied that he reserved such information for good reasons of his own, but would be prepared to give it with proper precautions to a committee chosen from the audience
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"Then I move," said Professor Challenger, "that both these gentlemen be elected, as representatives of this meeting, to accompany Professor Summerlee upon his journey to investigate and to report upon the truth of my statements
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"what do you know of this Professor Challenger?"
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shape of successive letters to McArdle, and that these should either be edited for the Gazette as they arrived, or held back to be published later, according to the wishes of Professor Challenger, since we could not yet know what conditions he might attach to those directions which should guide us to the unknown land
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In his hospital Fazenda we spent our time until the day when we were empowered to open the letter of instructions given to us by Professor Challenger
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From the beginning he has never concealed his belief that Professor Challenger is an absolute fraud, that we are all embarked upon an absurd wild-goose chase and that we are likely to reap nothing but disappointment and danger in South America, and corresponding ridicule in England
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Outside the narrow lines of the rivers what does anyone know? Who will say what is possible in such a country? Why should old man Challenger not be right?" At which direct defiance the stubborn sneer would reappear upon Professor Summerlee's
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Inscribed upon it, in the jagged handwriting of Professor Challenger, were the words:—
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That voice! That monstrous breadth of shoulder! We sprang to our feet with a gasp of astonishment as Challenger, in a round, boyish straw-hat with a colored ribbon—Challenger, with his hands in his jacket-pockets and his canvas shoes daintily pointing as he walked—appeared in the open space before us
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Challenger waved him away with his great hairy hand
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I understand that they are the very two—Ataca and Ipetu by name—who accompanied Professor Challenger upon his previous journey
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Our friends at home may well rejoice with us, for we are at our goal, and up to a point, at least, we have shown that the statement of Professor Challenger can be verified
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It must be admitted that Challenger is provocative in the last degree, but Summerlee has an acid tongue, which makes matters worse
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Last night Challenger said that he never cared to walk on the Thames Embankment and look up the river, as it was always sad to see one's own eventual goal
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I learned, however, that day once for all that both Summerlee and Challenger possessed that highest type of
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All day amid that incessant and mysterious menace our two Professors watched every bird upon the wing, and every shrub upon the bank, with many a sharp wordy contention, when the snarl of Summerlee came quick upon the deep growl of Challenger, but with no more sense of danger and no more reference to drum-beating Indians than if they were seated together in the smoking-room of the Royal Society's Club in St
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"Polysynthetic certainly," said Challenger, indulgently
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Challenger thrust out his aggressive chin until he was all beard and hat-rim
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About three o'clock in the afternoon we came to a very steep rapid, more than a mile long—the very one in which Professor Challenger had suffered disaster upon his first journey
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Since dawn Professor Challenger had been acutely uneasy, continually scanning each bank of the river
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In the morning Lord John and I made our way for a couple of miles through the forest, keeping parallel with the stream; but as it grew ever shallower we returned and reported, what Professor Challenger had already suspected, that we had reached the highest point to which the canoes could be brought
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We traveled entirely by compass, and once or twice there were differences of opinion between Challenger and the two Indians, when, to quote the Professor's indignant words, the whole party agreed to "trust the fallacious instincts of undeveloped savages rather than the highest product of modern European culture
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" That we were justified in doing so was shown upon the third day, when Challenger admitted that he recognized several landmarks of his former journey, and in one spot we actually came upon four fire-blackened stones, which must have marked a camping-place
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Challenger was too furious to speak
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Challenger struts about like a prize peacock, and Summerlee is silent, but still sceptical
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When I finished my last letter I stated that we were within seven miles from an enormous line of ruddy cliffs, which encircled, beyond all doubt, the plateau of which Professor Challenger spoke
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"It was on that," said Professor Challenger, pointing to this tree, "that the pterodactyl was perched
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Challenger presided with a solemnity as if he were the Lord Chief Justice on the Bench
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"I have already explained to our young friend here," said Challenger (he has a way of alluding to me as if I were a school child ten years old), "that it is quite impossible that there should be an easy way up anywhere, for the simple reason that if there were the summit would not be isolated, and those conditions would not obtain which have effected so singular an interference with the general laws of survival
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unresisting while Challenger tilted his head into the air
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"As to the man's identity," said Professor Challenger, "I
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"Maple White again," said Professor Challenger
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"Professor Challenger," said he, in a solemn voice, which quavered with emotion, "I owe you an apology
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I remember that as I dropped off to sleep my last recollection was that Challenger was squatting, like a monstrous bullfrog, by the fire, his huge head in his hands, sunk apparently in the deepest thought, and entirely oblivious to the goodnight which I wished him
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But it was a very different Challenger who greeted us in the morning—a Challenger with contentment and self-congratulation shining from his whole person
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I could not have accomplished it, nor could Summerlee, if Challenger had not gained the summit (it was extraordinary to see such activity in so unwieldy a creature) and there fixed the rope round the trunk of the considerable tree which grew there
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Challenger had slung the camp axe over his shoulder when he ascended
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All of us, without a word, shook hands with Professor Challenger, who raised his straw hat and bowed deeply to each in turn
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Challenger tossed his head and shrugged his heavy shoulders
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Challenger sat down upon the cut stump and groaned his impatience; but Summerlee and I were of one mind that Lord John was our leader when such practical details were in question
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Seating himself with a leg overhanging the abyss on each side, and his hatchet slung upon his back, Challenger hopped his way across the trunk and was soon at the other side
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"My dear Summerlee, I will tell you with great confidence exactly what they will say in England," said Challenger
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Finally, however, Challenger, bent upon proving some point which Summerlee had contested, thrust his head over the rock and nearly brought destruction upon us all
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Challenger fell, and as I stooped to pick him up I was again struck from behind and dropped on the top of him
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Challenger, as we halted beside the brook and he bathed a
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"It is worth noting," Challenger continued, "that our young friend has received an undoubted stab, while Lord John's coat could only have been torn by a bite
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"Oh, nothing, nothing," said he, and strolled back to where the voices of the contending men of science rose in a prolonged duet, the high, strident note of Summerlee rising and falling to the sonorous bass of Challenger
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Challenger of it, who put it down to the cerebral excitement caused by my fever
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"We have been privileged to overhear a prehistoric tragedy, the sort of drama which occurred among the reeds upon the border of some Jurassic lagoon, when the greater dragon pinned the lesser among the slime," said Challenger, with more solemnity than I had ever heard in his voice