He is pictured to us as wandering about the country, sometimes with a few trusty followers, sometimes alone and in disguise.
The letter to the Irish lords runs thus: "Health and fulness of love most dread Lord and most trusty Cousin.
Aberystwith, in which Glyndwr had placed a strong garrison under a trusty captain, seemed so, at any rate, to the English.
Robert ap Meredydd of Cefn-y-fan and Gesail-Gyferch near Criccieth, was another trusty henchman of Glyndwr.
So I thought I'd put in a word, as you wants trusty men.
He placed another trusty man on duty, ready to give the alarm if the mutineers woke and tried to break out, and then proposed that we should all go into the captain's cabin and have a council of war once more.
At first he led them to suspect Mr. Pericles; but a trusty Italian playing spy upon that gentleman soon cleared him, and they were more in the dark than ever.
Brown now prepared for his journey, having taken a temporary farewell of his trusty little companion.
I must not omit to mention that our traveller left his trusty attendant Wasp to be a guest at Charlie's Hope for a season.
Your recompense shall not be wanting, Andre; My trusty friend, go make haste toward the highlands.
While I am speaking to him pick me out ten trusty men.
I hear from your father, my trusty Sir Henry Furness, that you are willing to adventure your life in our cause, and to go as our messenger to London, and act there as our intermediary with our friends.
The sailors forming the majority of the party, with two trusty retainers of the earl, who had special charge of the affair, were proceeding carelessly along, having no thought of interruption.
With two such trusty followers I could go through Europe.
Medieval wills (our most trustysource of information for the personnel of the nunneries) make it possible to gauge the extent to which the upper and middle classes used the nunneries as receptacles for superfluous daughters.
As he did so he heard the usual, unmuffled ticking which was pretty sure to accompany the stooping posture with Tom and which always notified him that his bigtrusty nickel watch was dangling on its nickel chain.
Who but Pee-wee Harris (don't laugh) and his trusty belt-axe.
So when the tenth night came, Signy sent her trusty man to Sigmund, her brother, with honey in his hand, and said that he was to smear it over the face of Sigmund, and to fill his mouth with it.
And next morning Signy sent a trusty man to her brothers, to know how it had fared with them.
There was I born, and there also I look to find three dear and trusty friends to whom I owe return of their much kindness.
Furthermore, it is by thy doing that I have lost a right good servant and a trusty fellow, and one that I loved; it is thou that hast slain him.
Kindly indeed she smiled on him, but shook her head: I call thee trusty and dear friend again, said she; but what I would do I must do myself.
But now she had no scorn of him, but deemed, as was true, that he was both valiant and trusty and kind, and she thanked him in her heart as well as in words.
The attempt was not successful, for trusty friends carried the news quickly, and Virginius reached Rome in time to hear the cruel sentence by which the tyrant thought to gratify his evil intention.
Upon being asked by what right they proposed to take a part of the Clusian territory, Brennus, the leader of the barbarians, replied that all things belonged to the brave, and that their right lay in their trusty swords.
From one of these several trusty seamen were shortly afterwards missing.
Mr. Newman admitted that he had petitioned that certain "trusty men" might be left in the gaol.
In consequence of this reviving information, I committed my school without an hour's delay to my trusty usher, and went with Sarah Peters to Newgate, where we had admittance to the cell wherein they were confined.
As time wore on, she herself sickened and died; but before she could "shuffle off this mortal coil" she must needs transfer her familiar spirit to some trusty successor.
In a few minutes twotrusty men-servants returned, panting under the huge weight of the dripping parson.
In another five minutes you would have been too late, my good and trusty friend.
To summon Arima and enquire of that trusty henchman whether, in the hurry of departure from the survey camp, he had remembered to pack up and bring away his master's writing desk was naturally the next thing in order.
Ed Morrell, by one of the wildest freaks of chance, was taken out of solitary and made head trusty of the whole prison.
He told of his power in the prison by virtue of his being trusty in the Warden's office, and because of the fact that he had the run of the dispensary.
It was not until after Ed Morrell, by a strange whirl of fate, was released from solitary and appointed head trusty of the entire prison, that I was able to have the letter sent.
There is a lifer here in Folsom, Matthew Davies, of old pioneer stock, who is trusty of the scaffold and execution chamber.
That this was a position of great power you will realize when I tell you that the graft alone of the head trusty was estimated at three thousand dollars a year.
The head trusty tried to insert his forefinger inside the lacing.
If I delivered up the dynamite, they would give me a nominal punishment of thirty days in the dungeon and then make me a trusty in the prison library.
Once he even promised me three months in the hospital of absolute rest and good food, and then the trusty job in the library.
Ed Morrell was made head trustyof San Quentin and then pardoned out only the other day.
I'll let you loaf for six months on hospital grub, and then I'll put you trusty in the library.
I leaned my back unto an aik, I thought it was a trusty tree; But first it bowed, and syne it brak, Sae my true Love did lichtly me.
But one must be refused: more mickle was the pain, That nothing could be used to turn them both to gain; For of the two the trusty knight was wounded with disdain: Alas!
Nor idle stand The trusty slaves; with pointed spears they pierce Through their tough hides; or at their gaping mouths 490 An easier passage find.
