They meet for solemn severance, knight and king, Where gate and bulwark darken o'er the sea.
The fourteenth-century effigy of a knight in the north aisle is supposed to be that of Sir Ranulf de Blanchminster, who is commemorated in one of Hawker's ballads.
My dearest," wrote the knight from London, "I am exceedingly glad to hear from you, but doe desire you not to be so passionat for my absence.
The knight and his followers crossed the threshold, leaving one of the torch-bearers behind them.
The knight staggered as if struck by a mortal wound.
So absorbed was the father in the contemplation of this picture, that he did not hear the approaching footsteps of the knight and monk.
I am not an infidel, Agnes; I am a true knight of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, and a believer in the One True, Holy Church.
Fear him not; he is a brave knight and good Christian, who comes to offer his sword to our father and seek his counsels.
The monk and knight seated themselves, the latter with his attention riveted on the remarkable man before him.
How could it be that a knight so brave and gentle, and so piously brought up, should become an infidel?
She runs into the piazza, and sees dismounting a knight who carries Agnes in his arms pale and fainting.
The archers have wounded him, so that he is glad to find shelter even with a poor maid like me; but it was easy to see my eagle had been king among birds, even as this knight is among men.
Surely this knight hath erred; instead of taking refuge in the mountains, he ought to have fled with his followers to Rome, where the dear Father of the Church hath a house for all the oppressed.
A dashing fellow like you should doff the kid to a knight of his metal: challenge him.
Hung on a little post, and over a pair of rather suspicious-looking buckskin breeches, is a rusty helmet, which he sincerely believes was worn by a knight of the days of William the Conqueror.
The person selected for this critical post was a knight of Avila, named Blasco Nunez Vela.
Indeed, as far as the plea of ignorance will avail him, the worthy knight may urge it stoutly in his defence.
Still refusing to deliver up his sword, he asked "if there was no knight to whom he could surrender.
He was at once admitted into the governor's presence, when the latter dismissed his guard, remarking that he had nothing to fear from a brave and loyal knightlike Pizarro.
The odds were as great as those found in any legend of chivalry, where the lance of the good knight overturned hundreds at a touch.
Badge me not therefore in any less comprehensive fashion, O Knight of the Rueful Countenance.
She felt a delicious conviction that a knight had at length come to her rescue, a hero worthy of an adventure so admirable.
Vy, ve is moche de better," returned the botanist, "for den ve tries to find out all about him.
The bearer of this message was a courteous and prudent knight whom men called Acorionde, a man of wealth and eloquence; and he was much esteemed in the land, for he was a native of Athens.
Cliges pursues the youths till he swooped down on the Saxons, and is seen by the knight who has engaged to carry off his head.
But the first was of such an age before the other was born, that if he had willed he might have become a knight and held all the empire.
Cliges encounters no knightbut he fells him to the ground.
There was not knight or servant who ever knew what had become of him.
Soon will I have you crowned; and a knightshall you be to-morrow.
But the count was of great strength, a good and bold knight to boot, such that there would not have been a better in the world if he had not been disloyal and a traitor.
First of all the knight has assailed him with words: he stoutly calls him baseborn fellow, for he could not conceal the mind he had of him.
He takes the cup and generously entreats my Lord Gawain until he accepts this cup from him; but with exceeding great reluctance has that knight accepted it.
King, the report that is in men's mouths has brought me to your Court to serve and honour you, and if my service is pleasing I will stay till I be a new-made knight at your hand, not at that of another.
The lad hears the promise--namely, that his father will dub him knight on the morrow after Mass--but says that he will prove himself coward or hero in another land than his own.
People liked to wander through there in the evenings, when the camp-lights in the hollows lent a mysterious charm, and on up to the big Knight Templar's Building, erected on the highest point of the sandy bluff overlooking Lake Michigan.
If you walk up to the Knight Templar's Building I'll warrant you'll find them there promenading this very minute.
A knight who enjoys ease and security, or luxury, and has not known the hardships of the field; a hero of the drawing room; an effeminate person.
He looked at once the knight of the ballroom and the battlefield, a man to make his mark in either contest, love or war, and make it he had.
The very executioner shrunk from beheading one so brave and illustrious, until the unintimidated knight encouraged him, saying: "What dost thou fear?
Even the few passages which relate to their ancestors, Mr. Knight suspects to be interpolations.
Next to the noble knight of the eraser comes the idealist who has been toughened by experience in the cold world.
He ranks next to the stalwart knight of the eraser, because he has the courage to arrest the endless tinkering of design in order to get something done.
However, when coming among friends, especially ladies, the knight would remove his helmet as a mark of confidence and trust in his friends.
When a gentleman raises his hat to a lady he is but continuing a custom that had its beginning in the days of knighthood, when every knight wore his helmet as a protection against foes.
Messire, unlearned am I in the breaking o' prisons so when my time cometh to die in a noose I can but die as knight should--though I had rather 't were in honest fight.
At this, and very suddenly, the Knightloosed mace from saddle-bow, and therewith smote Sir Pertinax on rusty bascinet, and tumbled him backward among the bracken.
But each and all themselves did vanquished yield; And loud and louder did the plaudits grow, That one knight should so many overthrow.
FYTTE 3 Tell'th how Duke Jocelyn of love did sing, And haughty knightin lily-pool did fling.
A right puissant lord, Seneschal of Raddemore, Lord of Thorn andKnight of Ells!
Sad grew our knight this mighty feat perceiving, Since well he knew't was past his own achieving.
For Alexander's waltzing, see Personal Reminiscences, by Cornelia Knight and Thomas Raikes, 1875, p.
For two reasons: the military knight had become a peer and his Christian name was being forgotten; and the failure of his Nile Expedition to the relief of Gordon broke the tradition of unvaried success.
Donald is not quite the perfect gentle knight of Miss Mulock's tale, but the same blood runs in the veins of either.
Cacciaguida, who tells of himself that he followed the Emperor Conrad to fight against the Mohammedans, was made a knight by him, and was slain in the war.
The old romances enable us to follow such an errant knightthrough all his travels and adventures; and the illuminations leave hardly a point in the history unillustrated by their quaint but naive and charming pictures.
The suit of armour is beautiful, and the face of the knight has much character, but very different from the modern conventional type of a mediaeval knight-errant.
First of all there is the suit of armour on the knight in the foreground, the hooded hauberk and chausses of mail and genouillieres, the chapeau de fer, or war helm, and the surcoat, and the shield.
So that this group of a thirteenth-century knight and his men-at-arms is intended by the mediaeval artist to represent David and his followers on the march to revenge the churlishness of Nabal.
The inscription over the picture is, Tharbis defendit urbem Sabea ab impugnanti Moysi; and over the head of this cavalier is his name Moyses--Moses, as a knight of the end of the thirteenth century!
I have herde of a knight and of a lady that in her youthe delited hem to rise late.
And immediately the ship resumed its voyage, and the knight came galloping back over the sea to rejoin his astonished friends.
