The Alburquerque inventory describes in detail a complete set ("all of it kept in a box") of war and tourneying harness belonging to the duke.
Therefore we may conclude from these important facts that here is the crest of a tourneying helmet which belonged either to Don Pedro the Fourth of Aragon, or else to either of, or possibly both, his sons, Don Juan and Don Martin.
This, in the later Middle Ages, was a favourite form of tourneying lance.
The helmet as originally made was meant for tourneying only, and is therefore fashioned, not of metal, but of the frail theatrical materials I have stated.
Lancelot comes to a castle with a meadow before it, whereon a throng of black armoured knights is tourneying against knights in white armour.
Gahmuret by his prowess at a tournament wins the love of Herzeloyde, whom he marries on condition he may go a tourneying every month.
During all the tournaments that were held in his reign, he permitted his French, Scotch, and other prisoners, to share in the games, and sometimes he even furnished them with tourneying harness out of the royal armoury.
The Cid resolved to shame him into bravery; and he seized as a fitting occasion a day when Martin had concealed himself while his brother-knights weretourneying with the Moors.
After four years of such instruction, his father's death called him home to inherit his property, and he spent the three years that followed bytourneying in the noviciate of knighthood.
The latter part of this prolix autobiography is occupied by a detailed account of a longtourneying trip, which he contrived as a parallel to his Venus-journey, this time under the disguise of King Arthur.
Thus the tourneying lists were schools of chivalric virtue as well as of chivalric prowess, while the splendour and joyousness of the show brought all classes of society into kind and merry intercourse.
The tourneying knights were known by their heraldry, and this publication of their names was made for a very noble purpose.
Hence it was thought less dishonourable for a tourneying cavalier to fall with his horse than to fall alone.
Of a great tourneying in the Joyous Isle, and how Sir Percivale and Sir Ector came thither and Sir Percivale fought with him.
Of a great tourneying in the Joyous Isle, and how Sir Percivale and Sir Ector came thither, and Sir Percivale fought with him.
The Lord James Douglas, second son of the Gross One, had won the single tourneying by unhorsing all his opponents without even breaking a lance.
Indeed, as we have seen, he had the rudiments of the art in him before setting out from the tourneying field at Glenlochar on his way to holy orders.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "tourneying" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
