It was the challenge of race against race to mortal combat.
An "Invisible Empire" had risen from the field of Death and challenged the Visible to mortal combat.
Would Congress follow the lead of the President or challenge him to mortal combat?
No sooner did York present himself before Henry, and begin to enter upon the causes of complaint, than Somerset stepped from behind a curtain, denied the assertions of York, and defied him to mortal combat.
He made his way toward the place whence the sound proceeded, and found two warriors engaged in mortal combat.
Meanwhile Rogero, indignant that a stranger should presume to rob him of his bride, determined to seek the Prince of Greece, and defy him to mortal combat.
Rogero, also seeking his horse in the medley, came where two warriors were engaged in mortal combat.
You have challenged me, and, fancying the offence sufficient, you defy me to mortal combat.
You have failed; for I now here, on this spot, defy you to mortal combat.
The worthless Duke of Buckingham, having debauched the Countess of Shrewsbury, was challenged by her husband to mortal combat, in January 1668.
Carrouges, on his return, challenged Legris to mortal combat, for the twofold crime of violation and slander, inasmuch as he had denied his guilt, by asserting that the lady was a willing party.
Deeply offended at his conduct, Gwinett challenged him to mortal combat.
The keen sense of the humorous, with which Mr. Lincoln was so abundantly gifted, seems not to have wholly deserted him even in the serious moments when penning an acceptance to mortal combat.
At this, the latter, being deeply offended and failing to obtain a retraction by Cilley of the offensive words, challenged him to mortal combat.
Professor Gunn has been challenged to mortal combat by Major Fitts, and I have come as the representative of the major to make arrangements for the affair of honor.
Just think of it, he hasn't the courage to come here like a man and meet me in mortal combat!
The worthless Duke of Buckingham, having debauched the Countess of Shrewsbury, was challenged by her husband to mortal combat in January 1668.
The result was the giving and accepting a challenge to mortal combat.
At the end of that period, he challenged Rohan to mortal combat.
Paris was at last challenged by Menelaus to mortal combat.
You drew your sword, or challenged him to mortal combat on the spot?
Simply, he was gratified at the prospect of meeting the white man in mortal combat, for he held not a shadow of doubt that the career of Kenton was already as good as ended.
The preliminary conversation had been aimed to bring The Panther to see that the only way he could save himself from the charge of cowardice was by meeting Kenton in mortal combat.
The fact removed the last vestige of suspicion any one might have held as to the motive of the chieftain in failing to accept the challenge of Kenton to mortal combat.
He knew that the terrible chieftain and Simon Kenton had met in mortal combat, and what could the return of the Shawanoe mean but that the prince of pioneers and rangers had been overthrown and slain by his implacable enemy?
This is the celebrated "KilkennischeKatzenMotiv" (Motive of Mortal Combat).
Blut auf dem Mond Motiv] (slowly and with infinite pathos) Simply because in a mortal combat somebody is invariably wounded and sometimes killed.
There he met the Earl going out hunting; and there, in mortal combat, he laid him low.
Old as he was, although he had long laid aside his armour, the fire of his youth burned up within him, and he challenged his malignant accuser to mortal combat.
Whereon the King and all his courtiers were highly indignant, and numberless knights stepped forth, and challenged the stranger to mortal combat.
So Agesilan repaired to Constantinople and defied the recreant to mortal combat.
Hearing this, Abies grieved full sorely, and, encountering Amadis, challenged him to a mortal combat on the following day.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "mortal combat" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
