The remains of the gibbet on which the bodies of some of his fellow knights of the road were exposed were actually found when the foundations for the church were being dug out.
He wears the little misericorde, or dagger, at his belt, the "merciful" instrument with which gentle knights finished off their wounded enemies in the chivalric days of old.
Idle poetic fancies of an inert people, the Knights of the Round Table have no mission save that of being poetically perfect.
These knights and ladies, for ever tearing about from Scotland to India, never, in point of fact, get any further than the Apennine slopes where Boiardo was born, where Ariosto governed the Garfagnana.
And then, when to these knights Roland has at last added his own beloved comrade Oliver, he bids the archbishop bless all the dead, before he die himself.
Harps and fiddles played their wildest and most gladsome tunes, knights and ladies danced, and all went merry as a marriage bell.
They crowded around him, the knights and squires; they asked him questions about his own country, yet no word dared Thomas answer.
And with Sir George and stout Sir James, Both knightsof good account, Good Sir Ralph Raby there was slain, Whose prowess did surmount.
And there I sit Reading old things, Of knights and lorn damsels, While the wind sings-- O, drearily sings!
But now that brighter beams had come With Summer's brighter ray, He called his gallantknights around To spend a festal day.
A cry of terror and amazement rang from the shore; and the king of France himself, with two old knights beside him, rode on till the waters washed their horses' feet.
It was, however, the promise he received of material help which spurred Luther on to give a social aspect to his theological movement and thus to ensure the support of the disaffected Knights and Humanists.
Franconian Knights for my protection, should I need them.
His own appeals to the national feeling of the Germans against the “Italian Oppression,” as he styled it, were in striking agreement with the warlike proclamations of the Knights against the enslaving and exploitation of Germany.
Luther himself had no wish to carry through his religious enterprise with the help either of the knights or of the peasants, but his followers were not equal to making the necessary distinction between the spiritual and the temporal.
Ulrich von Hutten, the Franconian Knight and Humanist, a typical representative of the revolutionary knights of the day, speaks to the Monk of Wittenberg in the same devout terms as Crotus.
The Prince is acting faithfully and steadfastly,” such was probably the principal reason why Luther refrained from joining the forward movement as advocated by the Knightsof the Empire.
The menacing attitude of the Knights seemed to Luther sufficiently favourable to his cause without their actually declaring war.
Luther’s reason for only meeting the knights half-way.
Thus sympathy, as well as a certain community of interests, made the Knights heralds of the new Evangel.
He speaks scoffingly of his learned Erfurt opponents, some of whom he had been acquainted with previously, as “knights of straw.
In 1704 a Boston schoolmistress named Madam Knights rode from Boston to New York on horseback.
Madam Knights noted the fast racing in sleighs in New York when she was there in 1704.
Not that fairy things EVER happened," he added, "but knights really lived, and they did things that proved their courage.
The knights and ladies rested that night at the old man's hermitage, and the next day they set out for the court.
The king made him his dwarf; he was the favourite of the whole court; and, by his merry pranks, often amused the queen and the knights of the Round Table.
All the knights and beautiful ladies, who had been changed into birds and beasts, returned to their proper shapes.
Soon after, the king, who knew that his wife's weak point was her vanity, gave a tournament, at which he ordered the six bravest knights of the court to proclaim that Queen Grognon was the fairest lady alive.
Right there along with all them knightsand ladies there's a Boy Scout helping take care of the fellows knocked out in that scrap.
The two former are supported by the Kaiserswerth Institution in Germany, and the latter by the Knights of St. John.
For several days the husband refused to send for a doctor, but at length his wife Hala was sent to the College Hospital (of the Prussian Knightsof St. John) in Beirût where Dr.
The spirit of the old knights of chivalry that had descended upon him still held him in a spell that he did not wish to break.
I think it the highest and holiest I could undertake, and, in undertaking it, I believe myself to be animated by such a spirit as the knights felt in the first flush of the Crusades.
His list of Pedigrees of Knights made by King Charles II.
The splendid library which the Duke of Marlborough, while Marquis of Blandford, collected at White Knights was one of the finest in the kingdom.
James and John, who were also made knights by Elizabeth.
In ancient Chronicle I read:- About a King, as it must need, There was of Knights and of Squiers Great rout, and eke of Officers.
He had come to the knights and ladies praying in their dumb oratories, when there was a knock at the front door, and his mind leaped to the thought that Pauline might have sent a note by Birdwood to prevent his coming to-night.
The knights marked each other well, and then spurred their horses to the encounter.
Knights of various countries met in tournaments, and in those splendid scenes every description of armour was displayed, and fashions were interchanged.
Du Cange calls any combat between two knights preliminary to a general battle, a joust to the utterance.
He then adjured the Prince and the nobles, and his band of knights by their fealty and chivalry, that if he should die in his journey to Scotland, they would carry his body forwards, and never bury it till his son had established his dominion.
Lances were broken, horses and knights overthrown, and the tide of victory flowed to either end of the lists.
The colour of the mantle worn by the knights of St. John was black, and from that colour being the usual monastic one, they were called the military friars.
The tourneying knights were known by their heraldry, and this publication of their names was made for a very noble purpose.
As the bow was the great weapon of the Normans, the attendants of the English knights used the bow more frequently than similar attendants in any other country.
The prowess of the English knights most keenly excited his emulation; and, as his first measure to cope with it, he journeyed from Arragon to Paris.
Minstrels played on various musical instruments during dinner, and chaunted or recited their verses and tales afterwards both in the hall, and in the chamber to which the barons and knights retired for amusement.
The doughty knights appeared sheathed in armour of proof, and mounted on mighty war-horses.
Damsels were wont to surmount the helmets of their knights with chaplets, or to affix streamers to their spears[294], and a cavalier who was thus honoured smiled with self-complacency on the highly emblazoned surcoat of his rival in chivalry.
The minstrels tuned their harps to the praise of courtesy and prowess; and when the merriment was most joyous, the heralds[312] presented to the ladies the knights who had worthily demeaned themselves.
Furthermore Indiana was the principal centre of activity of the disloyal association known as the Knights of the Golden Circle, or Sons of Liberty, which found a ready growth among the large Southern population.
In 1285 he was present at the assault of a stronghold of the knights of St John, and he took part in the sieges of Tripoli, Acre and Qal'at ar-Rum.
Three years before his death he made a will leaving his kingdom to the Templars, the Hospitallers, and the Knightsof the Sepulchre, which his subjects refused to carry out.
Philadelphia was an independent neutral city, under the influence of the Latin Knights of Rhodes, when taken in .
Walter of Brienne was defeated and slain by them with all his knights at the battle of Cephissus, or Orchomenus, in Boeotia in March.
All were dismounted save a few knights and men-at-arms on the flanks, who were intended to charge the archers of the enemy.
It derives its existing name from its medieval Moorish castle (al-kasr), which was afterwards garrisoned by the knights of St John.
I have already remarked that forty thousand Scots, having with them many French knights and gentlemen, were across the border.
The Yorkists, however, had no monopoly of Wales,--Welsh knights had fought victoriously in France under Henry V.
About four thousand men lay dead upon the field, among them two hundred knights and gentlemen of Cheshire alone, who had followed Percy.
For here his vanguard was again attacked, many of his knights and nobles slain, his standard overthrown, and he himself in danger of his life.
An impression not altogether easy to account for, that the fall of this great castle would prove the final blow to Owen's resistance, got abroad, and there was a great rush of knights and nobles to take part in the ceremony.
Some four or five hundred men in all fell during this week of desultory skirmishing, including some French knights of note.
Thither came likewise Dame Brynhild, She cut for the bride the meat, Her followed slender ladies seven, ’Midst the knights they took their seat.
He clomb on the saddle and rode away, He’ll fain with other knights have a fray.
The knights and ladies rested that night at the old man's hermitage, and next day they set out for the Court.
So all the princes and knights were bidden to present themselves before the King that night, so that he who had ridden so far up the glass hill might show the golden apple which the King's daughter had thrown down.
Next day all the knights and princes were to appear before the King and Princess--it had been too late for them to do it the night before--in order that he who had the golden apple might produce it.
When the day appointed by the King had come, there was such a host of knights and princes under the glass hill that they seemed to swarm, and everyone who could walk or even creep was there too, to see who won the King's daughter.
The other princes and knights were not able even to call to tell him how useless it was to try to ascend the hill, so amazed were they at sight of his magnificence.
But ten o'clock was too early for the crowd, and the captain found himself almost alone among the recumbent figures, in dark marble, of bygone knights of the Temple in full armour.
Millicent's fancy peopled the shades with sleeping giants, goblins, witches, dragons, and all the creatures of the old tales of fairies and knights errant.
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