No wonder he sent Colonel Glover and Mr. Palfrey in hot haste to the Cape to raise the minute-men from all the neighboring towns and land the stores, and bring them under escort to headquarters!
But that I should marry like a young lady of romance, that he should come to seek me upon a palfrey destroying all barriers in the road; and on the other hand that I should mount another palfrey like Mme.
Nick cried out, and beat thepalfrey with the rein; but the chase was short.
Unfortunately for the proud beauty Angelica, or rather in just punishment for her contempt, her palfrey conducted her to this very place.
Orlando, disclosing himself, fiercely interrupted him; and a combat so terrific ensued, that Angelica fled away on her palfrey till she came to a large plain, in which she beheld an army encamped.
A lady on a palfrey happened to be coming by, who observed signs of life in him, and was struck with his youth and beauty.
Angelica turned her palfrey aside instantly, and galloped whithersoever it chose to carry her, till she came to a river-side, where she found another of her suitors, Ferragus.
She accordingly mounted her palfrey at once, and fled with all her might till she found herself in a wood.
The Elfin Queen only laughed in his face, and brought her dapple-grey palfrey close up to where he was standing.
But the Fairy Queen suddenly tightened her rein, and the grey palfrey stopped short in its wild career.
Once more the grey palfrey was brought, and Thomas and the Queen mounted it; and, as they had come, so they returned to the Eildon Tree near the Huntly Burn.
Then she bade him mount her palfrey again, and they rode on.
Look if this be nae Marion hersel"--and with that he led Delany's palfrey up to the light.
The gang of two cows and a palfrey on our Lady's meadow.
Long had they not walked within the greenwood, When Robin he soon espy'd A beautiful damsel all alone,[L35] 35 That on a black palfrey did ride.
With that the tears trickled down her cheeks, And silent was her tongue: With sighs and sobs she took her leave, Away her palfrey sprung.
Our dearest sister, the Queen of the Scots, hath been delivered of a fair son; and in high affection the news thereof she hath sent me, with a palfrey which I shall ride among you in token of the love I bear her Majesty.
The trappings of her palfrey were of finest embroidery, her bridle was a chain of gold.
Her palfrey was dapple-grey and she herself shone as the summer sun.
And thepalfrey whinnies so loudly that he can be heard far off at sea.
The good palfrey is found and in a state to carry his master, who is quite unable to walk.
Her hands had twitched so that the astonished palfrey reared.
Philippa saw that the Regent had his dinner, and afterward mounted her white palfrey and set out for the battle-field.
XIII The affrighted damsel turns her palfrey round, And shakes the floating bridle in the wind; Nor in her panic seeks to choose her ground, Nor open grove prefers to thicket blind.
VIII Then leaping on his horse, by different way The country scowers, to make more spoil and wrack: That palfrey never more tastes corn or hay; So that few days exhaust the famished hack.
It now behoves the palfrey swift to ply His feet; for while the knights in combat close, Him vexed to utmost speed, with goading spurs, By waste or wood the frighted damsel stirs.
And yet, why does she fret her palfrey in its paces--now checking, now urging it onward?
As she reined her palfrey around the corner, she glanced towards the spot where she had abandoned her glove.
Her palfrey passed behind the trees, and the horseman was hidden from her sight.
She came no more outside the enclosure of the park-- no more was the track of her palfrey impressed upon the forest path.
Having re-entered the gates of the park, Marion Wade checked her palfrey into a walk; and, at this pace, continued on towards the paternal mansion.
The palfreywas as fleet as wind, And they rode furiously behind.
Illustration] 'I read you by your bugle horn And by your palfrey good, I read you for a Ranger sworn, To keep the king's greenwood.
Palfrey said, in his oration at Barnstable, the duck does not take to the water with a surer instinct than the Barnstable boy.
Palfrey in 1839 gave up his professorship at Cambridge that he might devote himself to the history of New England.
John Gorham Palfrey was the editor, and Lowell would have called the men themselves the “Mutual Admiration Society.
Palfrey was living at Cambridge all through the period of Lowell’s college and law-school life.
Palfrey said, a sort of temptation to young Bostonians to read and study American history.
Palfrey once said to me that it was a sort of accident, as he thought, which turned the young literary men of Boston so much in the direction of history.
Without, the horse and the palfrey of Vortigern and Thetralde pawed the ground and neighed impatiently, as if calling for their provender.
Despairing of finding her way, my daughter must have tied her palfrey to a tree!
Before I could reflect I plied the whip upon mypalfrey to join him.
It was during one of these hunting excursions that Esgair, roused by the excitement of the chase, urged her palfrey to its utmost speed, and distancing all her companions, came suddenly to a small level plateau amid the mountains.
Very rash is he to require my palfrey of me, when he scrupled not to take the sweetness, the beauty and the courtesy with which my demoiselle is endowed.
But whilst the knight was in this case, the servant in custody of the palfrey returned with all the speed he might to the castle of the old Prince, where all was merriment and noise.
He bade, too, that thepalfrey and the horses should be saddled and made ready at the same hour, without confusion or disarray.
He knew again the palfrey which was so long his own.
My palfrey shall bear her gladly, in recompense of the favours she has granted me, for naught but kindness have I received of her.
Now must I lend my palfrey to the man who has betrayed me to my death, since he has robbed me of that which I desired more than all the world.
When the watch heard the noise of the palfrey thereon, he ceased his winding, and coming from the tower demanded who it was who rode so hardily on the bridge at such an hour.
In all haste she turned her palfrey to the river, and entering the stream clutched her lover by the belt.
Upon this fair palfrey Messire William went often to his lady, along the beaten path through the solitary forest, known but to these two alone.
The knight loved his palfrey very dearly, and I tell you truly that in nowise would he part with him for any manner of wealth, though the rich folk of that country, and even from afar, had coveted him for long.
So John sold all the fair furnishing of his houses, and bought thereout three horses, a palfrey for his lord, another for himself, and a pack horse for the road.
He lifted her from the palfrey and brought her within his home.
The palfrey followed the track without hesitation, for many a time he had journeyed therein, both winter and summer.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "palfrey" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: filler; hack; hunter; lead; leader; mount; rider; saddler; sumpter
