As the romance of the Rose says, "Les chevaliers mieux en valoient, Les dames meilleures etoient Et plus chastement en vivoient.
Even in this more hospitable class, the chevaliers were not all equally favored.
The other chevaliers conducted themselves with all possible forbearance and reserve; but they saw it would be impossible to keep on long, in this manner, without coming to an open rupture.
Singular as it may seem, the chevaliers of France fared the worst.
To indemnify themselves for this exclusion, the chevaliers carried their gallantries into the next class of society, composed of those who held civil, administrative, and judicial situations.
The chevaliers of other nations soon found the topics and tone of conversation at the commander's irksome and offensive, and gradually ceased to visit there.
I have always been very punctual in reciting my breviary; it is the prescribed and bounden duty of all chevaliers of the religious orders; and I can answer for it, is faithfully performed by those of Spain.
At the very first church she visited, the Commander de Foulquerre was stationed at the portal, with several of the young French chevaliers about him.
The Prince of the Asturias, and the Marquis de Villena then rose also, end approached my son, both covered, all the other chevaliersremaining seated and covered.
Then the King covered himself, and all the chevaliers at the same time, in the midst of a silence, without sign, which lasted as long as a little prayer.
All the chevaliersuncovered themselves, made an inclination, without rising, and covered themselves again.
The Chevaliers de Lorraine and Chatillon had both made a large fortune by their good looks, with which he was more smitten than with those of any other of his favourites.
Nearly all thechevaliers came to dine with us, and many other nobles.
The reverences just made, and those I shall have occasion to speak of in the course of my description, were the same as are seen at the receptions of the chevaliers of the Saint-Esprit, and in all grand ceremonies.
He is therefore by no means a proper emblem for the brave and honest Cincinnati of America, who have driven all the Kingbirds from our Country; though exactly fit for that Order of Knights, which the French call Chevaliers d'Industrie.
Chevaliers i est forz e durs E sage e sofranz e seurs; E li bons visquens de Toarz N'i est ne mauvais ne coarz, Qui ert apele Eimeris; Mult i recut le jor grant pris.
Chevaliers d'industrie, or polite and accomplished sharpers, have always existed in every city, from the earliest times to the present.
But he was silenced by Alva, who plainly told him, that, if the chevaliers of the order did meet, and said so much as the credo, he would bring them to a heavy reckoning for it.
Maisonneuve as in those of "one of the first Chevaliers of the Angels.
Thither also, at the command of the governor, went Montcalm, on June 27th, accompanied by the Chevaliers de Lévis and Montreuil.
Of the four Norman chevaliers who came expressly for this occasion, three were wounded, so that "all the honor of the jousts remained with those of Paris.
But the king not wishing to sadden the brilliant ceremony with show of mourning, kept up the jousts and tournaments for three days, and in memory of his coronation instituted the order of 'Chevaliers du Noeud'.
Brave citizens, who perform such distinguished actions as fighting for the restoration of the monarchy, ought to be considered as the equals of those French chevaliers whose ancestors helped to found it.
Near the chateau you may see the ruined chapel and the remains of the Salle des Chevaliers with its big fireplace.
At the bottom are the cellar and almonry, then comes the Salle des Chevaliers and the dormitory, and above all are the beautiful cloisters and the refectory.
Those who are raised to the rank of Nobles, for some Valiant Exploit, are called Chevaliers by Favour.
The Knights, at their entrance into the Order, must prove their Legitimacy, as well as Nobility, by four Descents, and are termed Chevaliers by Right.
She will swear on all the relics in the chapel never to give a hint to Messieurs les Chevaliers if only you would trust her, and not slay yourself with all this dreadful wandering.
Some one had given information, Veronique he suspected, and the two Chevaliers were certainly coming the next day to search with fire the old buildings of the temple.
The two last things that I read of hers to complete my idea of her were Le Comte de Corke and Les Chevaliers du Cygne, books at least possessing an element of surprise in their titles.
Les Chevaliers du Cygne is a book likely to stir up the Old Adam in some persons.
It was no less than a dozen bleached skulls of a band of unfortunate chevaliers who had been decapitated on the spot in some classic encounter the record of which has been lost to history.
These chevaliers had the privilege of exercising certain rights that other knights did not possess.
Composed of Bretons the sixth squadron was: Full forty thousand chevaliers are they; Barons in mien when mounted thus, each lance In rest, its pennon rolled.
My ancestors were Crusaders, preux chevaliers to a man.
For those two hundred million dollars were a barrier, which a descendant of Crusaders and preux chevaliers could not overleap.
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