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Definition of the day : « contest »
- noun competition
- noun fight, struggle
- verb argue, challenge
- verb fight
- Down the hill they thundered, over the brook and up to the scene of the contest.
- Extract from : « The White Company » by Arthur Conan Doyle
- And she came out of the contest weakened by each victory over her heart.
- Extract from : « The Dream » by Emile Zola
- A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles.
- Extract from : « The Devil's Dictionary » by Ambrose Bierce
- They entered into the contest, therefore, with their usual vigour, and their usual cruelty.
- Extract from : « The Life of Horatio Lord Nelson » by Robert Southey
- It must be a miserable imposture, indeed, that does not prevail in that contest.
- Extract from : « An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding » by David Hume
- Fortunately, perhaps, for Ferdinand and Spain, the contest did not last long.
- Extract from : « Leila, Complete » by Edward Bulwer-Lytton
- But when Atalanta stood ready for the contest, he was amazed by her beauty.
- Extract from : « Old Greek Folk Stories Told Anew » by Josephine Preston Peabody
- If the North are overborne in this contest, they must and will submit.
- Extract from : « Cleveland Past and Present » by Maurice Joblin
- He has not proved a courteous antagonist, for he has not stripped to the contest.
- Extract from : « The Forest » by Stewart Edward White
- After the contest he is usually the first to congratulate the successful candidate.
- Extract from : « The Railroad Question » by William Larrabee