Brilliant fetes and tournaments succeed, such as have not been seen in England, since the gorgeous days of Edward III.
In the tournaments in honor of the coronation, Piers came off victorious over the Earls of Lancaster, Hereford, Pembroke, and Warrenne, and this mortification greatly added to their dislike.
His name and lineage were Welsh, and in memory of King Arthur he held tournaments which he called Round Tables, and made this display so frequent, that his own son Geoffrey became ashamed of them, and called him the King of Folly.
The knights in France were mounted for tournaments or battle on large strong horses, called "palefrois.
During my stay I witnessed three of the tournaments I mentioned, with small horses and low saddles.
In summer it was enlivened by hunting and hawking, by tournaments and pageantry.
They offset tournaments by religious shows and pageantry, rivalled the attractions of the harp by sacred music, and to wean their flocks from the half dramatic entertainments of the minstrels, they invented the Miracle Play and the Mystery.
Although tournaments have been prohibited by many councils under the general threat of punishment, we forbid them for three years under the threat of excommunication, because the crusade is hindered by them.
It has been already mentioned that he fought in the Spanish wars, and in milder moments he distinguished himself at 'justs and tournaments now justled out of fashion by your carpet knights.
After that he and his friends journeyed to many lands, fighting tournaments when there were any tournaments to fight, till the whole of Christendom rang with the name of Sir Guy.
A trip to one of the model aeroplane tournaments will reveal dozens of more elaborate ones, which will give any ingenious boy ideas for development of the principles he can learn from the simpler type.
One of the indications of this may be seen in the public interest taken in the tournaments of boys' model aeroplane clubs.
The king went next day to Ardres without guards or attendants; and confidence being now fully established between the monarchs, they employed the rest of the time entirely in tournaments and festivals.
There were feasts and tournaments given in her honor, Fernando and Isabella introduced her to their subjects with apparent pleasure, and yet under it all was this heartless trick which they had planned in utter defiance of the law.
He looms large (in every sense of the word, being of great height and bulk) in all the tournaments and jousts held in honour of the marriage of Katherine of Aragon with Prince Henry.
There were a number of Courses or methods of combat in tournaments during the Middle Ages, but the three chief were the Das Deutsche Stechen, the Sharfrennen, and the Italian Course or Über die Pallia.
Occasionally fortournaments and pageant purposes ailettes appear to have been made most elaborately; thus we find in the inventory of Piers Gaveston in 1313 a mention of a pair garnished and fretted with pearls.
Croquet or tennis tournaments are frequently the occasion of giving garden-parties, and some very exciting play takes place.
And unto him he represents that it were better for him to spend the flower of his youth and the prime of his age in preserving his own boundaries, than in tournaments which are productive of no profit, although he obtains glory in them.
Tournaments were repeatedly condemned by the Church, probably on account of the quarrels they led to, and the often fatal results.
In time of peace he was often in attendance at his sovereign's court, gracing with his presence the banquets and tournaments with which princes cheered their leisure.
The result had now become apparent in the wonderful series of successes the School achieved, not only in the Home District Tournaments, but at the Royal Military Tournaments in competition with the Navy and Army.
The chief place in London for tournaments was a place we have been to already, called Smithfield.
That was a sad thing, and I did not want this chapter to be sad, because history is too full of sad things, and tournaments and games ought to be gay.
Pierre de Courtney is one whose heart and soul is on chivalry; and he must be won by tournaments and lance-breakings.
He had wearied of the game-bag end of shooting, even before his prowess in the tournaments became a bore.
The summer tournaments and fetes champetres, and the winter festivals and masquerades, were attended by all the beauty and chivalry of the land.
It was inhabited by a family of gentle birth: Sir John Walsh had shone in the tournaments of the court, and by this means conciliated the favour of his prince.
The king of France gave Henry tournaments and banquets of Asiatic luxury; and Wolsey, whose countenance yet bore the marks of the graceful smile with which he had taken leave of Charles, smiled also on Francis, and sang mass in his honour.
The public record of chess matches and great tournaments places the name of the author of this work above that of any living English competitor for chess honours, excepting Mr. Blackburne.
In each of these Tournamentsthe writer participated.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "tournaments" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
