If you can jump over a ditch and hedge, I am sure you could turn the quintain round.
Was it likely that an honourable John, the son of the Earl de Courcy, should ride at a quintain in company with a Saxon yeoman?
If you'll have side saddles on the nags, and let them go at the quintain too, it'll answer capital, no doubt.
The quintainpost stood right before him, and the square board at which he was to tilt was fairly in the way.
She resolved that at any rate, to him nothing more should be said about the quintain that day.
Accordingly she once more betook herself to the quintain post.
He had undertaken to come mounted on a nag of his father's, and show the way at the quintain post.
But it never occurred to her that her favourite quintain was but a modern copy of a Norman knight's amusement, an adaptation of the noble tourney to the tastes and habits of the Saxon yeomen.
Then she went into the small home park where the quintain was erected.
The quintain that she had put up with so much anxious care; the game that she had prepared for the amusement of the stalwart yeomen of the country; the sport that had been honoured by the affection of so many of their ancestors!
Mr Thorne was beginning to be rather bored by his sister's love of sports, and had especially no affection for this quintain post.
The quintain which the major had prepared for the present occasion consisted of a wooden figure, fixed upon a pivot, and holding in its outstretched arm a bag of flower.
But the form of the modern quintain is more fully described by Dr.
This exercise is said to have received the name of quintain from Quinctus or Quintas the inventor,[457] but who he was, or when he lived, is not ascertained.
The quintainthus fashioned was placed upon a pivot, and so contrived as to move round with facility.
Matthew Paris mentions the quintain by name, but he speaks of it in a cursory manner as a well known pastime, and probably would have said nothing about it, had not the following circumstance given him the occasion.
See what has been said respecting the quintainupon the water, sect.
Which will run thus in English: They raised a quintain in the midst of a meadow, and the youth tilted at it with their lances.
Below is the quintain in the form of a Saracen, from Pluvinel.
The lines just now quoted evidently allude to the quintain in the form of a Turk or Saracen, which, I presume, was sometimes used upon this occasion.
Mr. Thorne was beginning to be rather bored by his sister's love of sports, and had especially no affection for this quintain post.
Was it likely that an Honourable John, the son of an Earl De Courcy, should ride at a quintain in company with Saxon yeomen?
She resolved that, at any rate, to him nothing more should be said about the quintain that day.
He had undertaken to come mounted on a nag of his father's and show the way at the quintain post.
The quintain post stood right before him, and the square board at which he was to tilt was fairly in his way.
On the green at Offham, an out-of-the-way Kentish village, stands the only quintain post in England.
This quintain post is undoubtedly one of the most interesting survivals of the pastimes of the "good old days.
The owners of the adjoining house have been required to keep the quintain post in a good state of repair, and it is doubtless to this stipulation in the title-deeds of the property that we owe the existence of this unique relic.
Tilting at the quintain was a favourite sport at festive gatherings.
But Arthur, hearing that the lads of the town were to try their skill at the quintain before the Prince of Wales, would come, reason or none.
In other days, when the game of quintain was played at Smithfield, squires and pages of the king's household had taken part in the diversion, and added interest to the competition.
Each time the Quintain was moved, the servant who had been sent forward readjusted it with the greatest care, and when each of the young men had run his course, the troop commenced again.
There was some little dispute as to whether the Quintain was straight or not, but in the end the trumpet again sounded.
It is the favorite game at Bourges, and we consider that the next best point to hitting the Quintain straight, is to avoid the blow.
The Quintain is not straight," he continued, calling to the master of the Quintain.
Another ran his course, struck the Quintain better, but did not dismount it; and De Royans succeeded striking the figure right in the middle of the forehead, and shaking the whole post, but still leaving the wooden image standing.
The quintain originally was nothing more than the trunk of a tree or post set up for the practice of the tyros in chivalry.
Among the exercises glanced at in this sketch of the Londoner's sportive year, the Quintain is conspicuous.
Indeed, their enthusiasm sometimes led them to an excess of ambition which resulted in an armed contest between the two bodies of knight and craftsman: they dared to practise the exercise of the quintain for the prize of a peacock!
The more ancient quintain was merely a post or a shield fixed on a pole, which the tyro attacked in lieu of a living antagonist.
