An you're not as much prisoner as I, though in somewhat of a better case, I'll barter my knighthood for a battered farthing, .
My estates will not bear the tax which the patent of this knighthood involves.
Is knighthood so big a burden thou dost groan under it?
Outlaw as he was, his estates given over to his son who now carried a knighthood bestowed by King Charles, he was still a loyal subject to the dynasty which had dishonoured him.
It is better thou shouldst know from my own lips the peril this knighthood brings, than that trouble should suddenly fall and thou be unprepared.
That you, sir, have refused a knighthood of the King; that he insists upon your keeping it; that he is about to levy upon your estates: and that you are outlawed from England.
That knighthood on thy shoulder laid;[317] For that good deed, permit me then A word with these misguided men.
Knighthood was conferred by a slight blow with the flat of a sword on the back of the kneeling candidate.
Philip Sidney distinguished himself by a well-conducted surprise of the town of Axel, and received in reward among a number of others the honor of knighthoodfrom the hands of his uncle.
Sir John Brand--he had accepted knighthood from the Queen as an evidence of his British sympathies--absolutely refused to have anything to do with it.
This only increased his latent courage and made him burn with a desire to be numbered with the knighthood of the house.
It had not been at all necessary for Juffrouw Laps to conceal her intention so slyly and always omit Walter's name from the knighthood of the Pieterse family.
At this period the custom of receiving knighthood from the hands of bishops or abbats yet obtained.
William, however, as soon as his age permitted, receiving the badge of knighthoodfrom the king of France, inspirited the inhabitants to hope for quiet.
Then Fergus turned to Naisi and said:--"I dare not violate my knighthood promise: what am I to do in this strait?
Then did I take thee, Finn, and those who were with thee, under the protection of my knighthood and valour; and I went to the ford to defend it against the foreigners.
I am scarce seventeen," Cuthbert said; "but I have had the good fortune to attract the notice of King Richard, and to have received the knighthood from his sword.
The ideas generated by knighthood are obviously present to the mind of the writer.
And He as a noble wooer, after many messengers and many good deeds, came to prove His love and showed through knighthood that He was worthy of love, as sometime knights were wont to do.
But before I proceed I would ask you all whether you, too, approve, and hold that Sir Ralph Harcourt and Sir Gervaise Tresham have proved themselves worthy of the honour of secular knighthood at my hands?
When the meal had concluded, Sir John Kendall said, "Brother knights, When the grand master bestowed the honour of secular knighthood upon this young comrade of ours, he predicted that he would rise to high distinction in the Order.
A gold-embroidered belt ofknighthood encircled his loins, with his arms, five roses gules on a field argent, cunningly worked upon the clasp.
It was a woman's hand which cast this lime into mine eyes, and though I saw her stoop, and might well have stopped her ere she threw, I deemed it unworthy of my knighthood to hinder or balk one of her sex.
Galaor conceived such an affection for the stranger that he requested knighthood at his hands.
Out of the depths of her vengeance she sent emissaries to all the kingdoms of the earth, asking that the knighthood of every realm should assist her to destroy Lisuarte.
Thus accoutred for the life chivalric, he betook himself to the Court of Macedon, where he received the honour of knighthood from Florendes, the son of the king of that country, and his own father.
For brotherhood all have sworn him who sit at that noble board, And stainless shall be their knighthood who own Arthur for king and lord!
If thine hand for love's sake shall battle, if adventure hath bidden thee 115 By knighthoodwin love's rewarding, yet thou winnest it not from me.
For he gave ever righteous judgment, and many a gallant deed Of knighthood he did, and, valiant, he won of fair fame his meed.
I ween he may find it here, 170 Since he craveth some deed of knighthood I am ready with him to fight, But say, who shall be the maiden?
For we well can do so--I think me such grace to gain 750 From the Duchess that all the captives from thine host she will swiftly free, And, many a new spear bearing, herknighthood we here may see.
Margery replied that she would have requested for him the favour of knighthood in a moment at the hands of Lord Marnell, but she did not like to ask him for anything so long as he was displeased with her.
Knighthood is now conferred only by the Sovereign, who is "the fountain of honour," or by a viceroy, as representing the Sovereign.
The feudal system, with which knighthood was in fact bound up, precluded chivalry to women in its full modern sense.
Long before the end of the 13th century, there were districts of France in which rich citizens claimed knighthood as their inalienable right.
The essence of perfect knighthood was fearless strength, softened by charity and consecrated by faith.
They who should have used their strength against Christ's enemies fight now in their cups and drunkenness, waste their time in sloth, moulder in debauchery, and dishonour the name and office of Knighthood by their degenerate lives.
Where Royal statutes and popular tendencies work together against an ancient institution, it soon begins to crumble away; and the knighthood which Chaucer knew was far removed from that of a few generations before.
A close study even of such a panegyrist as Froissart compels us to look to some other age than his for the spirit of perfect chivalry; and many writers would place the palmy days of knighthood in the age of St. Louis.
Froissart tells in his own picturesque style how he pressed so far forward at Poitiers as to get himself badly wounded and taken prisoner, and how the squire who took him bought himself a knighthood out of the ransom.
Now knighthood is a temporal distinction, and, as such (I am putting this bluntly), another nut for that new and dainty humility of hers to crack.
Ever since Pepper had told us about his knighthood Aunt Angela had sat, her slender fingers folded in her lap, smiling from time to time into the fire.
At Bosworth Richard Edgcumbe received the honour of knighthood from his victorious leader, Henry VII.
Methinks if I had been the Prince, I would have inquired upon whom knighthood would sit the best.
I own I thought the Prince was bestowing knighthood over lightly--and so do I say still, Sir Eustace.
Highness to confer knighthood for as mere a chance as this.
I would not join my voice with the rabble," said Edward, "and it makes me sad to see knighthood fallen.
I think the hand which laid knighthood on my shoulder should repent the boon that it gave!
A Series of the best of the Stories of Noble Knighthood and Old Romance, told in refined and simple language, and adapted to young readers.
So Duke William was made a knight at the earliest age at which knighthood was conferred.
Sometimes knighthoodwas conferred with less ceremony upon the battle- field, as the reward of signal bravery or address.
At the age of twenty-one the squire became a knight, being then introduced to the order of knighthood by a peculiar and impressive service.
The highest rank of knighthoodin the Order of the Bath.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "knighthood" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
