Then when my father, having completed the building of his castle, set himself to the finding of the cave whereof the secret was lost, in which emprise he, like my grandfather lost his life amongst the waters of the Skyres of Crudene.
It will add also, of course, to the honour and glory of the Kingdom of Spain, so that for all time the world may know that the comfort of the Roman See is on the emprise of the Great Armada!
But thine is the balance of fate, thou rulest the wavering scale, And without thee no mortal emprise shall have strength to achieve or prevail.
The dames and maidens of Burgundy accorded permission to this zealous servant of love to attempt the emprise of the Passage of the Tree of Gold.
This addition to the mantle was not regarded as a decoration, but a badge of gentle shame, which the knight was obliged to wear until some high emprise had been achieved by him.
Du Guesclin now began to achieve the high emprise of re-annexing to the crown of France those provinces which the gallantry of the Black Prince had wrested from it.
When the herald concluded, the King and his council conferred together, and they soon agreed that the laws of chivalry obliged them to consent to the accomplishing of this emprise of arms.
He did not wish to head the emprise himself; and selecting Sir Walter Manny from his gallant band, as the prowest chevalier, he told him that he and his son, the Prince, would fight under his banner.
And al-be-it so that your emprise be establissed and ordeyned by greet multitude of folk, yet thar ye nat accomplice thilke same ordinaunce but yow lyke.
And more-over I seye, that though ye han sworn and bihight to perfourne your emprise, and nathelees ye weyve to perfourne thilke sameemprise by Iuste cause, men sholde nat seyn therefore that ye were a lyer ne forsworn.
After the dolorous discomfiture When Charlemagne the holy emprise lost, So terribly Orlando sounded not.
One moment is more lethargy to me, Than five and twenty centuries to the emprise That startled Neptune with the shade of Argo!
O good Apollo, for this last emprise Make of me such a vessel of thy power As giving the beloved laurel asks!
And such was the hunter's first emprise as a warrior.
Ye must learn Here in this golden dawn our great emprise Is greater than we knew.
O my king," the Lady Om whined to me in her beggar's chant; and I knew all her long-tried love and faith in my emprise were in that chant.
The emprise was eagerly sought by a monk of a distant convent in Navarre, who had once been a soldier, and whose military ardor seems to have been exalted, instead of being extinguished, in the solitude of the cloister.
Six hundred and twenty-seven encounters took place, and one hundred and sixty-six lances were broken, when the emprise was declared to be fairly achieved.
Adventure there is none, romance there is none, mention of high emprise there is none.
Adventure, romance, high emprise have to these men somehow lost their importance.
You have taken up this thought To play with, for a gentle stimulant, To give a dignity to idler life By the dim prospect of emprise to come, But ever with the softening, sure belief, That all would end some strange way right at last.
Bid shine what should, dismiss into the shade What should not be,--and there triumphs the paramount Emprise o' the Master!
To me the most tender and beautiful thing in all this our great adventure and emprise was the meeting of little Arthur and Alice.
True, I walked in the paths of pensive thought; but it was only to think of John-a-Blount and of the emprise we had in hand.
At a tournament held by the Emperor of Germany, the noble undertaking was held to be accomplished, and the emblems of the emprise were unchained from the left shoulder of the gallant knights and squires.
His soul conceived the high emprise To snatch the Amrit from the skies.
In each emprise he wins success, And dying foes his power confess.
Leagued, friend, with thee in bold emprise My arm might win the conquered skies; And shall our banded strength be weak To gain the realm which now I seek?
Christians made common emprise for the recovery of the Holy Land.
