"Pick up the gauntlet" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... live together within its battered walls, let us hoist a flag of truce, pick up the gauntlet and tie up the dogs of war," added ...
— Castle Craneycrow • George Barr McCutcheon
... smiling lividly, did not seem inclined to pick up the gauntlet, and Woods interfered hastily. "Don Caesar means that your ward has some idea herself that she is of Spanish origin—at least, Milly says so. But of course, as one of the oldest trustees, YOU know ...
— A Ward of the Golden Gate • Bret Harte |
