Now when the lion, her fierce servant, saw that Paynim knight lay hands on his sovereign lady, he sprang on him with gaping jaws, and almost tore the shield from his arm.
It was Christmas Day, and Bevis was riding with a large company of Paynim knights through the great plain that surrounded the city.
He is yours to spare or to slay,' said Oberon, and once more the knight gave the Paynim his choice.
With his left hand, Nugalone Curls his moustache, dark and glossy: Then unto his Paynim warriors Thus he speaks, the haughty Moor: Forward!
But the most celebrated of Dwarfs is Elberich,[251] who aided the emperor Otnit or Ortnit to gain the daughter of the Paynim Soldan of Syria.
It seemed to him that, like the champions of romance of whom he had sometimes read, he himself was retiring from the post which it was his duty to guard, defeated by a Paynim knight, for whom the adventure had been reserved by fate.
O ladye, this is thy owne true love, As playnlye thou mayest see, And Ile rid thee of that foule paynim Who partes thy love and thee.
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Veillantif, Roland's faithful warhorse, was enduring agonies from wounds of the Paynim arrows, and him Roland slew with a shrewd blow from his well-tried sword.
And there shall they lie in sanctuary, and not in a Paynim land where the wild beasts devour them and croaking wretches with foul beaks tear our flesh and leave our bones dishonoured.
Paynim Harper= (The), referred to by Tennyson in the Last Tournament, was Orpheus.
Then were swine, goats, asses, geese The wiser fools, seeing thy Paynim bard Had such a mastery of his mystery That he could harp his wife up out of hell.
Then the damsel sent unto Corsabrin, and bad him go unto Sir Palamides, that was a Paynim as well as he: and she gave him warning that she had sent him her pensel; and if he might overcome Palamides she would wed him.
Divers outland kings, and many paynim and Saracens, were mixed with the Christian folk, for all these people owned fealty to Rome, and were in the service of the emperor.
The one part he set upon the hills, so that the Paynim might not climb there if they would.
But the power of the paynimwas broken, for many were dead, and of the living most were taken, and in bonds, or held as thralls.
He could not help himself, when the Paynim burnt him: and how can he help us?
Ah heauens, that do this hideous act behold, And heauenly virgin thus outraged see, 8 How can ye vengeance iust so long withhold, And hurle not flashing flames vpon that Paynim bold?
On his helm red sparkles burn; Like a thunderbolt the Paynim Wheels, the insult to return.
The paynim host is shattered and riven; but nearly all the Franks have fallen.
The battle-note is given in Roland's words, as Oliver descries the masses ofpaynim closing in around that valiant rear-guard.
The paynim are in the wrong, Christians in the right!
There was doubtless much divergence of motive, secular and religious; but over-mastering and unifying all was the passion to wrest the sepulchre of Christ from paynim defilement, and thus win salvation for the Crusader.
Since knighthood's ideals took form in crusading times, the slaughter of the Paynim became the supreme act of knightly warfare.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "paynim" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
