The whole Commons rises in a tumult over the king's demands for tax, the king sulkily stalks out, the nobles shout their defiance (as shocking as throwing their gauntlets to the floor), and it is all much as Chaucer depicts it in the "Parliament of Fowls" ("Kek kek! kokkow! quek quek"), or in the "House of Fame", when the volume of disputing contenders for honour becomes as deafening as a rookery.
Huge consumer electronics companies like Motorola and Sony have thrown their gauntlets into the wrist-mounted display ring with devices that link up to their respective Android smartphones, with varying (and not very considerable) degrees of popularity.
If they were bootstrapped, Kawano says, they could have riffed off of what Storehouse was to build a creation tool for photographers — or they could have built a magazine to throw their subjective gauntlet into the publishing ring.
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In a Flemish duel fought in 1127, the two champions unhorsed each other, fought with swords on foot, then finally threw down their weapons and fell to wrestling on the ground and punching each other with their iron gauntlets, until one reached under the other's armor and tore away his testicles, killing him on the spot.
This involved reciting their accusations and throwing down a gauntlet signifying their intention to fight.
They'd strut through the Gauntlet, lift their shirts, and rub their chests.
A slow procession of emergency vehicles made their way through a gauntlet formed by the growing crowd.
"The album sounds as if Daft Punk are snottily throwing down a gauntlet to their legions of imitators: you've copied everything else we've done, now try to copy this," wrote the Guardian's Alexis Petridis.
