Not till the extreme end of this century does the Troubadour begin to make himself heard.
They are recognised by the Troubadour Raimon Vidal as the special property of the Northern tongue, and no reasonable pretence has been put forward to show that they are other than indigenous.
And that was why you might have seen a Mephisto and a slender troubadour of lovely form, with mandolin flung across his shoulder, followed by a bevy of jockeys and ballet girls, laughing and singing as they swept down Rampart Street.
As an example of the horrors seen in these evil pits we give one vivid picture, that of the famous Troubadour Bertrand de Born, who, having incited the young son of Henry II.
Amongst them Dante sees the great troubadour Bertram de Born, who fostered the rebellion of the sons of our own king Henry II.
The poet sees the shades of Virgil and the troubadour Sordello join in a loving embrace at the bare mention of the name of Mantua, where both of them were born.
The troubadour rode a mustang the color of a dry chili pepper, but with none of its spirit.
Many a more sophisticated man than your desert troubadour would have broken his neck over that.
The little troubadour felt that he was doing a generous and friendly turn for a fallen man, and squaring his own account with Macdonald in thus laboring for his redemption.
You would tell him that he is stupid, I preach to him, on the contrary, my old troubadour doctrine.
Love your old troubadour always and talk to him of Paris; a few words when you have the time.
In short, your troubadour (not very troubadourish) has become a sad bonehead.
Your old troubadour especially who embraces you with all his heart, and begs to be remembered to your good mother.
A thousand affectionate greetings from your old troubadour who embraces you.
Hoping to see you soon, dear master, your old troubadour who embraces you.
Well, my dear, for the first time since Dad gave him to me, my Troubadour (I wish you could see the sweet creature!
I wonder whether he made poor Troubadour shy when I lashed at him?
The troubadour only smiled at words which seemed so meaningless.
Thus the evening passed, and at its end Makrisi followed the troubadour to his regranted fief of Vaquieras.
These expedients recall the famous exploit of the French troubadour Pierre Vidal undertaken to win the love of his beautiful patroness Donna Azalais de Baux.
The French mediaeval troubadour rarely chose as his theme the faithlessness of women; probably because incidents like the one described in our ballad were either unknown or too common to be considered interesting.
History does not tell us whether Pedro rewarded the Jewish troubadour as the latter, if we may judge by the end of his poem, had expected.
The troubadour makes a low obeisance before the throne.
If German Jews found heart for literary interests, it may be assumed as a matter of course that Spanish and Provençal Jews participated in the advancement of their respective national literatures and in Troubadour poetry.
The example of the first Jewish troubadour did not find imitators.
Among early Castilian troubadours there is a Jew, and the last troubadourof Spain again is a Jew.
Prodigality reduced many a troubadour to the rank of a mere jongleur or hired musician.
Her father was not less high-tempered, though less brilliant than his troubadour predecessor.
Gaucelm, the son of an artisan of Uzerche, had been raised from his low estate by the favor of the troubadour Richard Coeur de Lion, and his talent had assured his position in what one might call the best society.
The troubadour himself must go in knightly panoply, and he and his musicians or jongleurs were usually provided with rich clothing.
Unfortunately, we know but little of her personal relations with her troubadour courtiers, though tradition has conjectured that they were by no means always platonic.
As illustrative of the position of women in Provence at this time we may select a story as famous in troubadourannals as that of Francesca da Rimini.
A troubadour queen was certainly no fit mate for Louis VII.
Others of the troubadour statutes are frankly suggestive of that moral laxity, not to say obliquity of vision, of which we have spoken before.
It is no wonder that the soft heart of the troubadour soon forgot its grief for the lost Lady de Ventadour in the new love for his gracious protector.
The troubadour preceded the Saxon bard, the Anglo-Norman minstrel, and the German minnesinger.
But in addition to the above-mentioned motive principles, the troubadour was influenced by another sentiment, which had a powerful effect on all the feelings and actions of his life.
In both, a glimpse is caught of the troubadour who sings the song; in the one case, before he commences his romaunt, in the other, as he retires unnoticed and unthanked by the English monarch.
So absurdly manifest was their case that somebody (the Troubadour man, in fact) interposed discreetly.
The troubadour Miravel has told us that when a man made a failure of his life, all were prone to say: "It is evident that he did not care for the ladies.
Vengeance, however, followed discovery, and swift was the retribution which overtook the troubadour when guilty of faithless conduct.
A troubadour sang at the command of his noble patron, but with the women poetry was not an employment, but a necessity for self-expression.
It was Count Nicolotto Muti, elder brother of the troubadour Raffaele.
Her beauty was no longer bleak, but rich--all at once too warm, perhaps, for a divinity whose only office was the guidance of a troubadour toward asceticism.
The same story is told of the troubadour Guillem de Cabestanh; but it is good enough to repeat.
The stupid messenger, arriving at home, betrayed to the husband what it was he had been charged to deliver, and the husband chose a most mediæval revenge: he had the heart of the troubadour cooked and placed before his wife.
Each troubadour thought it needful to be dedicated to the service of some lady, in whose honor all his exploits in arms or achievements in minstrelsy were performed.
But neither Linger nor Mirage will ever be able to beat Lookout at any weight or distance when the great son of Troubadouris at himself.
Troubadour with even, steady stride, moved to the front.
She was reared on troubadour fare, on troubadour lore.
When Violante was in her seventeenth year, there came a royal traveller, disguised as a troubadour of Languedoc, to the Court of Love at Bar-le-Duc.
Every troubadour had to choose the lady of his passion; she might return it or not, as she chose.
Hubert must feel like a troubadour of the Middle Ages,” said Linda, “reciting before the lady of the castle and her maidens.
A handsome young troubadour would be more entertaining than a dry book, or even an indifferent novel.
When he finished the first stanza, the prisoner replied with the second; then the troubadour hastened with all speed to Queen Eleanora with the discovery he had made.
I'll be the Sunflower lady that the Troubadour came all across the sea, because he loved her so, for, and one of you can be the Troubadour, and the others can be sailors or anything you like.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "troubadour" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
