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Sentence Examples Her princely lover accused the knight and challenged him to a combat of arms to prove his innocence or guilt. The owner of the pitiful castle, a small, insignificant knight was very welcoming. The knight banneret emerged in the early 13th cent. as a senior rank, probably relating, in its initial stages, to special military significance. The Knight of the Wood's squire also believes that knight errants' squires receive governorships of islands and countships too. Unlike many would-be damsels in distress, I never imagined myself being rescued by a knight in shining armor. The knight rode ahead of him calm and self-contained, but Kieran felt as though insects were crawling under the surface of his skin. She decided to weave her way through the fray, trying to avoid battles, but one knight insisted on aiding her. He wondered how long he would have to continue playing gallant knight to these insipid, wilting females. The truth is, I don't get many opportunities to play the gallant knight for beauteous strangers. Her husband rushed into the kitchen, and like that proverbial knight in shining armor, took over from that point on. A young knight is riding through a deserted countryside, seeking shelter for the night. On the ground nearby lay a picture, a knight in shining armor drawn carefully in crayon. Don Quijote explains that any knight errant who did not ask for a lady love's favor and protection would be subject to criticism. Oh, and I'll need the king off the e-file, so I don't lose the knight to a pin or discovered check or double check. This craft was carried 50,000 feet by the so called white knight aircraft, before they separated, and then rocketed into the stratosphere. After several exchanges, Bareev was left with a knight and 5 pawns to Junior's knight and 6 pawns, including a passed b-pawn. The crossbow was really the first hand-held weapon that could be used by an untrained soldier to injure or kill a knight in plate armour. At last, Don Quijote decides to seek honor and glory and fulfill his duty, and become an actual knight errant. It's no use waiting for a knight in shining armour to ride in and sweep you off your feet. The black horse reared a bit, but somehow, Mel managed to flawlessly knock off the knight. Show More Sentences He stepped into a takeover battle as a white knight and emerged as majority owner of an old and underperforming mine in Ontario. So the white knight that Southcorp's chairman Brian Finn and the markets are anticipating may not arrive. A potential acquirer who outbids a white knight in an unfriendly takeover attempt. Amegy, so the story goes, sought a white knight in Zions Bancorporation of Salt Lake City, whose chairman has known Johnson for years. The French government itself, however, could already have made the white knight idea a difficult proposition for Aventis. Some politicians have even talked about Volare as a white knight to save the larger carrier. Disney could look for a potential white knight to rescue it from unwanted bidders and up the ante for Comcast. I do not say the FSA is always right, and I long ago ceased to see it as a shining white knight rushing to the public's rescue. The trick we have to do is live up to the image of the white knight in shining armor. Deliver us a white knight, a true and brave soul who can rid us of scoundrels, scalawags and in-it-for-themselves special interests. Eventually it found its white knight in the Manchester-based developer Urban Splash. We want that Mr. Right to come in our lives on a white knight as much as that's not politically correct nowadays. Then Steve Archibald, the former Barcelona and Scotland striker, came over the horizon as a white knight. We are pleading with people, this is really the last chance now and we need a white knight in shining armour to ride in and save us. The tenants believed that Delgadillo was the white knight who would step in and save them from evictions. The novel's hero, Justin Quayle, becomes ever more the white knight, superb and incorruptible in his quest. Many see Kerry Group boss Denis Brosnan as a white knight who will come to the rescue of Irish agribusiness. Press coverage portrayed him as the white knight coming to the aid of the millions of people at risk of being denied medical treatment. I too recall when Kerry rode into Washington as the white knight of the peace movement. His imagination was fevered, he thought of himself as a knight from a bygone era and moved around like one, riding a ragged horse. Show More Sentences A knight was supposed to protect the weak and defend the Church against heretics of all shades. The knight gave a slow grin that immediately told Jade that he had an ace up his sleeve. After the queens came off on move 40, Korchnoi was left with 6 pawns to Galliamova's knight and 2 soldiers. Anand sacrificed his queen on move 22, getting a rook and knight in return. After some deliberation, he moved his queen diagonally across the board, capturing Adam's remaining knight. Any knight of renown could make a knight, and the squire had but to kneel before him and receive the accolade. So he decides to pretend he's the knight and enter a big old jousting tournament. I have told my knight in shining armour and one of my bezzy blogmates Alan, and also Mike that I've been half tempted to pack it in. It had been a joke on a passing knight to stake a high bet and then use rigged dice to take everything he had put up. To move her bishop to strike his knight would leave the king open on two sides without escape, a checkmate. The knight or Miles was the lowest of the military elite, a well equipped and well trained fighting man similar to the Saxon thegn or huscarl. In 1925 Asquith accepted a peerage as Earl of Oxford and Asquith and was created a knight of the garter shortly afterwards. The old knight is of course referring to himself, and in the case of this production is speaking all too truly. But no sooner had Porrus delivered a wounding blow to the knight's left arm than the knight returned a blow to his shield. The knight was now looking around through a single monocle at all the boys passing by, sizing one up for a leader. Indeed, the knight is the only chess piece that covers an asymmetrical pattern of squares. In a knight and two pawns ending, he had little choice but to resign after 60 moves. The knight felt free under the open sky, and let out a whoop of joy as he rode over the grassy, frost-glazed hill. Jinx grew up knowing that Sir Irwin cared for him, and that most other humans thought it strange and unfitting for a knight to keep such a pet. The knight looked over with unfocused eyes, flicking back and forth like a caged animal. Show More Sentences By unhorsing the only white knight around at the time, the government effectively caused the group to collapse. He was knight of the shire for Kent in 1386 and probably lived in Kent for most of the rest of his life. Then the bath was ready and the knight drew him to his feet and helped him navigate the wooden steps into the tub. A young Breton knight marries the beautiful girl in the opening of the tale. William Marshal was a powerful, respected, wise and loyal knight and baron who had already served two Angevin kings. He was the greatest knight in the world and a deluded Spanish gentleman to precisely the same degree. When not at combat readiness, the mailed knight would unfasten his ventail, throw back his coif, and turn back his mittens. He who drank a bumper on his knees to the health of his mistress, was dubbed a knight for the evening. When the knight is introduced in a later fytte of the poem, he is called Sir Richard-at-the-Lee. The knight wore no armor, but carried a sprig of holly in one hand, and an enormous axe in the other. During the period of squireship, the knight imparts his knowledge of combat law, technique, arms and armor to his squire. A chorus line of dancing divas and knights, flatulent Frenchmen, killer rabbits and one legless knight are featured. In return for this, William generously made the great English earl a Norman knight. Bareev retreated his king and knight and amazingly got the draw in 73 moves after he looked dead lost. The thews in his hindquarters strained and bulged as the knight caracoled on his rear legs. In chess, if you move your knight on to a pawn's square, the pawn's a goner. The two boys fought bravely with their sticks as weapons, and in the end, like always, the young knight won. In one of Chaucer's earliest poems, The Book of the Duchess, a knight is overheard in the forest lamenting the death of his lady. This is the signature of a hearts and flowers, knight in shining armor aspect. Wu is riding a crest of support from recession-weary Hong Kong citizens who are looking for a white knight to lift their spirits. Show More Sentences The man, upon seeing a knight rigged out in full armor sticking a lance in his face, fears for his life. Tensions are running high as William seeks to prove himself a champion and a true knight once and for all. His first dream was of him in a castle starting his training to become a knight as a page. The uninvited guest was a tall broad-shouldered knight who strode angrily into the hall and stopped right before the high table. The contrast the white charger and silver knight made as they cantered toward the castle was an inspiring sight that was not lost on her. In other words, the colors red and white seem to represent the knight and his female beloved, respectively. If he had known, why hadn't he ridden in like some knight in shining armor and rescued her? He would become her knight and devote himself to her service, though his passion for her would rarely be consummated. But taking the knight left my rook a wide open path to move across the board and checkmate your king. After years of indoctrination by sappy romance stories and fairy tales, girls want to be swept off their feet by a knight in shining armor. He was an elf of great bearing, every bit the chivalrous knight and mentor. Desiree bit her tongue, for she felt like showering the mysterious knight with sharp words. He has a very active queen, good knight against bad bishop and White's exposed pawns to attack. He was the most handsome and chivalrous knight in the kingdom and one day taught his white crow how to speak the language of humans. We argued whether Grandpa Cody's stories about him being a knight back in the old days was true or was a tall tale. Sometimes there are two dishes, a knight on a bier, a head in a dish, a stone, or a ciborium. Chain mail alternated with steel plates that had been bent around the knight seamlessly so as not to impede his movement. As material decreased, the extra knight became less and less of an advantage against white's two passed pawns. The knight plays along, and gulps up much of the venison pastry the hermit brought out. Above the faint rumble of the air conditioning, their cutlery clinks and clanks, the sound of a knight in full armour. Show More Sentences No unfair advantages in a duel were permissible if a knight was to retain his honor. One gallant knight stands as the hope of the English people, Norman and Saxon alike, for justice and fairness. Despite an immaculate service record it would seem this knight of the realm is to be treated as an enemy of the state in retirement. The battle was over, and the only knight preventing his retreat was incapacitated. But now White's pieces swarm into the center and the pin on the knight becomes even more serious. The knight began his journey to discover what women desire, but could find no satisfactory answers or responses. Yes, Turkey does the same thing, but why throw away a perfectly good knight just because you have a bishop fianchettoed in the corner? Maybe a knight in shining armour will come forward to assist half a million pensioners worldwide. Oddly enough, that relationship, though it was known less than 100 years ago, is not as familiar and understandable to us today as that of a knight and his esquire. He drew breath to say something, but the knight cut him off coldly. He moved his knight forward and deftly captured one of her pawns. And although he had always maintained that there was no such thing as a knight in shining armour, he had still come to Julie's rescue readily enough. Theirs is a fairy-tale romance, with her knowing from the beginning that they are fated to be together, and him coming to her rescue like a knight in shining armor. After years of obsessively reading books of chivalry, his mind finally snaps and he decides to become an actual knight errant like those in the tales he has read. By the 13th cent. the arrangements were unravelling as lords increasingly paid scutage rather than perform knight service and vassals tried to commute their own obligations. According to this system of morals and manners, a knight was to remain faithful to God, loyal to his king, true to his lady-love, and helpful to their less fortunate kinsmen. Most of the head tenants and some of the under tenants held on condition of knight service, later commuted into a money payment in lieu of service called scutage. Who do you want to knight you, one of Italy's revolving door leaders? The knight roared, sweeping his ruddy blade out in a wide arc. Mr. Ziegler's is an elegant, sympathetic, and extremely readable biography, which really does breathe the breath of roistering life back into the vanished knight of letters. Show More Sentences There Val waxed in wit and strength, became squire and friend to Sir Gawain and, through many feats of bravery, a knight of King Arthur's Round Table. However, war had moved on from the time of the Battle of Hastings and the longbow was now the most feared of weapons and not the knight on horseback. Irishman Bob Geldof was famously made an honorary knight for his work for Live Aid. A knight should be skilled in all weapons but a master in at least two. First, her identity as a knight is determined by her relation to Amoret, which has been secured by her martial victory over her rival and affirmed by the court's seneschal. As to the matter of how fast our speeding knight of the road was in fact travelling, various readers were keen to take us to task on the finer points of metric etiquette. After all, the knight was the only piece guarding the attacked bishop. I could trot around the pitch with this mascot knight on my back. A white knight is a person who is asked to acquire a company as an alternative to an unwanted black knight, who is the investor initiating a hostile takeover bid. In a largely moribund game, he represents vibrancy, rising like a white knight as his club were plunged into the potential darkness of administration. Wedding bells are in the air at Huntington Stadium after good sir knight Norris and fair maiden Rosemary Westmoreland recreated one of the happiest moments of their lives. The knight gave a brief nod at Pher's words, expressionless. It was like a black knight protecting an overlarge magistrate, and the expression on its countenance told Ferry that its owner didn't want to be here standing on ceremony. Her insatiable desire to be stroked, bolstered, flattered, was met by Burrell with the obsequious enthusiasm of a knight offering the chasteness of courtly love. The knight struck a match and lit the oil lamp he was carrying. What would the Round Table be without the best carpet knight in town? The tyranny associated by Renaissance humanists with the age of chivalric knights and with the knight figure caused romances that heroize the bygone age to fall into disfavor. He limped toward Danni who was fighting a knight in chain mail. The hero, Roger, is a knight who rides a mythical animal, a hippogriff. The knight undertakes a love suit to the daughter of Selestinus, a wise emperor in Rome, and certain strange terms are agreed upon between them as the condition of her favor. Show More Sentences This could be a checkmate if it weren't for Floyd's knight in the way. Who does not remember the eccentric hero who chose to live in the medieval world of chivalry and thought of himself as a knight in shining armour? Not that Loki didn't like girls or anything, he just went about his ways as a chivalrous knight in shining armor would, staring at them from a distance. Surely only the most chivalrous knight would stand forth boldly, without armor, without the element of surprise, trusting only in his virtue and nobility to protect him! Changes in war, government, and economy made the chivalrous, aristocratic knight obsolete and the Renaissance made classical literature more popular. This created two passed pawns each in the bishop vs. knight ending. Black still has the pin against the undefended rook on h1, so it becomes a question of whether Black can defend his knight more times than White can attack it. Otherwise Leinster and Meath became fiefs, held of the English crown by precisely defined knight service by Strongbow and Hugh de Lacy respectively. Andrew was a member of the Rotary, a knight of St John Ambulance, divisional surgeon at the local ironworks, and a member of Leicester and Nottingham medical associations. When you forked my knight and king, that really was a good move. It's the idea that girls get that somewhere there's a knight in shining armor or a Prince Charming searching for her to ride her away on his white steed. He was a lifelong member of St. Peter's Parish and a member of the Knights of Columbus as a third degree knight and fourth degree honorary knight. The knight glared at Arthur discerningly through narrowed eyes. The young knight nodded, but his eyes were distant, his face drawn. In the end, Stephen did not kill young William, which the knight would claim was due to his charm. He knew that despite Ivo's scrubbing he was still as foul as a pig in a wallow, and yet the knight slept in the same bed with him, and offered him closeness and comfort. He is the young and randy knight who has his way with Catherine, the only woman in the castle, played in a suitably restrained way by Laura Richmond. Meanwhile France, the white knight of peace and conscience of Europe, has only very recently ceased its overt efforts at trying to protect the Sudanese government. A Serbian woman who spent more than a year hiding from authorities in a church basement came face to face Sunday with the man her supporters hope will be her white knight. Recently, a white knight rode in to rescue the damsel in distress. Show More Sentences But with the search for a white knight investor unlikely to be successful, the directors of Ansett met yesterday to formulate their response to the crisis. No white knight arrived for inViso in the fall of 2001, however, as it also ran out of money in the absence of customer orders and had to close its doors. Probably not, but don't expect the market power argument to get a run in the face of patriotic fervour surrounding our Aussie white knight fending off the dodgy Swiss raiders. The OS vendor is certainly looking for a buyer or a white knight. In 1994, Saudi billionaire Prince al-Waleed bin Talal acted as Euro Disney's white knight, taking an almost 25 per cent stake in the company to avert a financial crisis. The sultan gave him one of his female relatives in marriage, and the recreant knight appeared before Jerusalem at the head of an army of the infidels. Few castles can boast the historic pedigree of Cathcart, which dates back to the days of Sir Alan Cathcart, a knight who served with Robert the Bruce. Usually, a minor knight might hold a few acres from a baron, who in turn held the land from a count or earl, who in turn held large tracts of the king. Renunciation by Alexander Lindsay, knight, Lord of Glenesk, of certain lands, in favour of Margaret Countess of Marr and her sister Elizabeth. Alan Rufus, also known as Alan the Red, was both a cousin and knight in the retinue of William the Conqueror. Valdemar himself was saved only by the courageous actions of a German knight who carried Valdemar to safety on his horse. But habit had made the endurance of this load of panoply a second nature, both to the knight and his gallant charger. Right so came out an adder of a little heathbush, and it stung a knight in the foot. And there came against the place as they stood a young learning knight yclept Dixon. In this text, he is presented as the most formidable knight at King Arthur's court. Here it is the perfect knight Galahad, rather than Percival, who assumes the empty seat, now called the Siege Perilous. This seat must remain empty until the coming of the knight who will achieve the Grail. The backdrop of Saint Mary's Abbey at York plays a central role in the Gest as the poor knight who Robin aids owes money to the abbot. After this point, if the dragon's fire hits the knight, it'll burninate him! A castle could act as a stronghold and prison but was also a place where a knight or lord could entertain his peers. Show More Sentences The term bachelor in the 12th century referred to a knight bachelor, who was too young or poor to gather vassals under his own banner. There is, however, more disparity than correspondence between Ariosto's knight and his provenient models. The wicked knight leapt suddenly upon him, cutting off the top of the crown which the unction of sacred chrism had dedicated to God. Gilbert's father was from Thierville in the lordship of Brionne in Normandy, and was either a small landowner or a petty knight. For example, Orderic Vitalis, a historian born in 1075 and the son of a Norman knight, said that he learned French only as a second language. This night, when the Lady Joan sternly bade her knight attend the knightless damsels to their home, Ioris obeyed. We must work this out on our own and not wait for a knight in shining armor, who may never come. Edward rewarded Henry by including him as a founding knight of the Order of the Garter. Payn de Rochefort, an Angevin knight, was elevated to the post of seneschal of Anjou. A knight or magistrate would wear an augusticlavus, a tunic bearing small purple studs. But, Sir, hon. members of the government, led by that old knight of blue ruin, have done something infinitely worse than cry blue ruin. There was a campaign to knight John Charles, but it never came to fruition. If one is stopped on the highway, one would rather hand one's purse over to a courteous knight than to the rough-and-ready bludgeoner. She is not a white knight arriving to rescue a failing company. Sir, said Sir Gingalin, I wot not what knight he was, but well I wot that he sigheth, and maketh great dole. The sixth was a young knight of lesser renown and lower rank, assumed into that honorable company. The Lady of the Lake sends Lancelot to King Arthur's court where he becomes a knight at the behest of Sir Gawain. The knight mentioned is the mailed figure on the Conyers tomb in ruined Sockburn church. After their divorce, according to the style granted to the divorced wife of a knight, she became known socially as Vivien, Lady Olivier. Then came forth a likely knight, and well apparelled in scarlet, furred with meniver. Show More Sentences Pimienta's decision to occupy the island was approved in 1643 and he was made a knight of the Order of Santiago. From 1535 each Welsh county and borough was represented, by one knight or burgess. Many moons had waxed and waned when on the afternoon of a lovely summer day a lusty broad-boned knight was riding through the forest of Sherwood. It was not until some time later that an English knight recognised the body as that of the prince. The Medieval knight was not to rise for several centuries after Adrianople. Charlemagne was a model knight as one of the Nine Worthies who enjoyed an important legacy in European culture. Zarco, a knight in service to Prince Henry, had commanded the caravels guarding the coast of Algarve from the incursions of the Moors. In his preface, the compiler calls himself a knight, and states that he was born and bred in England, in the town of St Albans. Zarco was born in Portugal, and became a knight at the service of Prince Henry the Navigator's household. In his role of knight of Prince Henry the Navigator's house he participated in the siege of Tangier, in 1437, which ended in failure. One chronicler suggests that the knight Duarte Pacheco Pereira was also aboard. Church and various private properties were tied to military service, although there was no knight tenure within the city itself. In this tale, Malory establishes Lancelot as King Arthur's most revered knight. On his quest, he encounters the Black, Green, Red, and Blue knights and the Red knight of the Red Lands. Tristan is even considered to be as strong and able a knight as Lancelot, although they become beloved friends. William of Malmesbury stated that Harold died from an arrow to the eye that went into the brain, and that a knight wounded Harold at the same time. The knight Lyvet was released and his follower thrown into the Tower. The association of Saint James with the scallop can most likely be traced to the legend that the apostle once rescued a knight covered in scallops. I believe it well, false recreant knight, said Sir Gawaine, for thou hast many long days overled me, and us all, and destroyed many of our good knights. Numerous barons were subjected to John's malevolentia, even including William Marshal, a famous knight and baron normally held up as a model of utter loyalty. Show More Sentences In 1518, or perhaps previously, he was raised from fidalgo to knight in the King's Council and was entitled to a monthly allowance of 2,437 reais. After defeating the Irish knight Morholt, Tristan travels to Ireland to bring back the fair Iseult for his uncle, King Mark of Cornwall, to marry. The Norwegian regents, however, cultivated Snorri, made him a skutilsvein, a senior title roughly equivalent to knight, and received an oath of loyalty. Nevertheless, the art of fighting on foot was an obligatory part of military education which even a charioted knight could ignore at his own peril. The knight went on a quest to prove his quality to his ladylove. He may of course be of higher rank, as esquire, knight, peer, or prince. The Didot Perceval, a prose continuation of Robert's work, takes up the story, and the knight Percival sits in the seat and initiates the Grail quest. He says that there is a vacancy in Percy's household, owing to one of his esquires being made a knight, and a page has been promoted to an esquireship. Meanwhile Variety magazine said Ed Speleers, 25, who played handsome footman Jimmy Kent in ITV's Downton Abbey, is in the running to be an apprentice Jedi knight. He returned to Lisbon by April 8, 1484, where John II ennobled him, promoting him from esquire to a knight of his household, and granted him an annuity and a coat of arms. His planned second marriage to Margaret, the widow of the knight Sir John Logie, resulted in a factional division that alienated nobles including Robert Steward. To the confusion and confounding of that cursed death's-head knight. This represented a transformation for one raised as a feudal knight. And it ate up sheep and men and women and was a fair terror, and the King had his heralds cry a reward to whatever knight would ride and end the mischieving of the beast. The first relates the adventures of a knight who married the young duchess of Calabria, niece of King Meleager of Sicily, but was loved by Medea, the king's wife. The book ends with Lancelot's healing of Sir Urry of Hungary, where Malory notes that Lancelot is the only knight out of hundreds to succeed in this endeavor. At the exchange, an unnamed knight draws his sword to kill an adder. It was created by William I and held for him by the Barton family in thegnage, and for them by a Norman knight named Elias, who fought in the crusades. For the mounted knight war could be a relatively low risk affair. The knight reached the summit of Rocciamelone where he left a bronze triptych of three crosses, a feat which he conducted with the use of ladders to traverse the ice. Show More Sentences He was a most perfect knight, for he had great honor and chivalry. Gorged nearly to the uttermost when he entered the restaurant, the smell of food had almost caused him to lose his honor as a gentleman, but he rallied like a true knight. Arms of Charles, Infant of Spain, Archduke of Austria, Duke of Burgundy, KG at the time of his installation as a knight of the Most Noble Order of the Garter. The knight was unhorsed when his opponent's lance struck his shield. Another knight came to settle on the island, a man of much weight and position, on whom the Adelantados of all the island relied, and who was made a magistrate. Their value is also evident in history when Antra Bin Shaddad, the historical poet and knight, presented the camels as dowry to his beloved, Abla. The nobles around Prince John implored him with one voice to throw down his warder, and to save so brave a knight from the disgrace of being overcome by odds. In any case, none of the roles of the Green Knight, as knight, challenger, hunter, host, absolver, and Judge, conflict with his allegorical identity as Christ. The first Irish earldom was the Earl of Ulster, granted to the Norman knight Hugh de Lacy in 1205 by Henry II, King of England and Lord of Ireland. Examples from Classical Literature One knight, also, with much difficulty, passed the water upon his barded horse. Besides, it had bat wings, with which it buffeted the knight, but its tail was short. Sir knight and comrade, hither comes one, no nutbrown maid is she, but the fairest of all fair women in this world. Kay had been made a knight at Allhallowmas, and when he found there was to be so fine a joust he wanted a sword, to join it. By your leave, Master Seldom, have you done the hangers I bespake for the knight? The fallen knight quickly rose, took up the brachet in his arms, and left the hall. He it is who bids the knight no more wrest gifts from his tenant nor misdo with the poor. Soon after his departure the old knight became ill, and died on the day that the New Castle was completed. So he sent my sister Yseult to Camelot to ask the king to let us have a knight to protect us against a giant with three heads. The old Countess-palatine of Aetolia was descended directly from a certain knight who treated his hostlers like princes. The lecturer says the Table was round so that every knight might be at the head of it. I never knew of a bedesman who behaved so gallantly, nor have I seen a knight behave better. That marvelleth me, said the black knight, that any man that is of worship will have ado with him. Ye shall say by the knight that went in the quest of the knight that went with the brachet. The knight marshal to take care that all such unthrifty and common women as follow the Court be banished. Whilst the lady yet wondered upon him, the tercel became a young and comely knight before her eyes. The companion of the knight was as evidently a Saxon, as the knight was unequivocally a Norman. Shortly after, he was chosen knight of the shire of that county, nemine contradicente, and proved a deadly enemy to the king. And near her was a knight upon a warhorse of large size, with heavy and bright armour both upon himself and upon his horse. But wheresoe'er thou goest, Thou faithful knight and true, The favours of my kingdom Shall all be showered on you. Show More Sentences The young knight instantly went cold to the marrow, and repeated his question tensely, passing the fool a rose noble. The ordinary series of body-garments worn by the knight are the Tunic, the gambeson and the Hauberk. He hastened after Francesco, and while the knight was disarming he came to voice his suspicions. And who that putteth that knight to the worse shall have a fair maid and a gerfalcon. He, for his part, was well pleased to find in the young knight the companionship he had erewhile had in the pueri. From the shields, there is not one of these vessels which hath not knight or baron aboard. He got him to his feet, and bringing the destrier to his master, set the knight thereon. But she knew that even the black knight would not frighten her kitchen-knave. He assured them of every accommodation, and was about to withdraw when the black knight took his hand. By thy garb and shoon I know thee not, But I know the knight who thy troth has got. Then she had marvel what knight it might be that durst adventure him to sit in the Siege Perilous. The knight errant had heard the canon's question, and he offered to give him the information if he knew anything about errantry. Do you not see that it is the wounded knight we met that day you were escorting me to Urbino? The knight and the forester could describe every lineament of the would-be assassin. While he was in this state of love-lorn blindness the false-hearted knight Sir Mordred rode up with purpose to joust. Then came the knight marshal on a caparisoned steed, himself in a suit of gilt armour, and in a richly embroidered surcoat. But it was not as a knight of the ferule that you won this mark of distinction? This is well said, said Morgan le Fay, this is the knight that I would fain see. It will be noticed that on this knight the skirt of the jupon is scalloped, on the other it is plain. Great names were whispered, as the servants of the knight marshal arranged these in their respective places. Show More Sentences The knight dropped his wassail cup and sprang to the assistance of the ladies. On the continent of Europe the degree of knight bachelor disappeared with the military system which had given rise to it. Having been a knight of Pilates for seven years, he craves a boon of him, which is Christs body. What, said Sir Launcelot, is he a thief and a knight and a ravisher of women? The esquire ranked immediately below the knight bachelor, and his office was regarded as the apprentice stage of knighthood. A knight bachelor, of course, is at liberty to impale the arms of his wife upon his escutcheon without employing the double form. The knight banneret is a title conferred in time of war, under the unfurled royal standard. Before the battle of Navaret he took the rank and title of knight banneret. The end of the pennon was cut off upon the person being created a knight banneret. At length, late in the afternoon, the knight marshal's men appeared on horseback. The knight is clad in armour, viz., a spherical bascinet, with a camail of chain-mail. Find more words! 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