Canst thou wonder, I ask, that I ranged myself under the banner of the leader whose accolade had given me knighthood to win back those lands of my father's?
Many writers have imagined that the accolade was the last blow which the soldier might receive with impunity: but this interpretation is not correct, for the squire was as jealous of his honour as the knight.
The Anxiety of the Squire regarding the Character of the Knight from whom he was to receive the Accolade .
A noble aspirant to chivalry would only receive the accolade from a warrior, whose fame had excited his emulation, or sometimes the feelings of feudal attachment prevailed over the higher and sterner sense of chivalry.
The anxiety of the squire regarding the character of the knight from whom he was to receive the accolade .
The accolade was given, and the two friends, like companions in arms, gallantly charged the English.
He speaks Turkish as well as our own tongue, and, as I told you, we received theaccolade at the hands of the grand master, a year and a half ago.
When the music ended with a jolt Mrs. Neff clung dizzily to him, gave him an accolade of approval with her fan, and booked him for the next dance but one.
And now that it was here he sneered at the accolade of it.
Everywhere else dubbing or the accolade seems to have become obsolete, and no other species of knighthood, if knighthood it can be called, is known except that which is dependent on admission to some particular order.
In both of them the essential portion seems to have been the accolade or stroke of the sword.
But while in the one the accolade constituted the whole or nearly the whole of the ceremony, in the other it was surrounded with many additional observances.
Many writers have imagined that the accolade was the last blow which the soldier might receive with impunity.
So fair a squire must, ere this, have earned the spurs of knighthood; and much would it pleasure me, to lay the accolade upon his shoulder, in return for his dextrous plotting.
The Clown Towards His Accolade 91 The Fourth Traveler.
The Third Traveler The Clown Towards his Accolade THE little man in motley, thrusting his face through the curtains of the big circus tent, looked out on the gathering crowds and grinned.
Then Galahad gave him the accolade as he kneeled before him, and bade him rise a knight.
At early morn of the next day he gave the accolade to the youth, pronouncing him knight, and bidding Bors and Lionel to stand as his godfathers in the order of knighthood.
So when the morrow dawned, the king ordered that the youth should be brought into the great hall, and there he knighted him, dealing him the accolade with his good sword Excalibur.
Now, to check the too great profusion of such flowers of chivalry, the power to confer the accolade was commonly restricted to the greater nobles, and later still, as now, to royalty alone.
Upon Francesco de' Pazzi he conferred theaccolade of knighthood.
