And if thou wilt take the risk upon thee and come hither again, prithee be wary in that coming, lest in venturing thou have thine ears clipped in most unknightly fashion.
Shall we make ourselves unworthy of her from our very eagerness to win her, and show ourselves her faithful knights, by cherishing envy,--most unknightly of all sins?
Therefore many knights held there against that it was unknightlydone in a tournament to kill a horse wilfully, but that it had been done in plain battle, life for life.
Truly, said Arthur, that was unknightly done of you of so good a knight, for I have heard many people call you a courteous knight.
When Sir Palamides heard him say so, he kneeled down and asked mercy: For outrageously have I done to you this day, considering the great deeds of arms I have seen you do, shamefully and unknightly I have required you to do battle.
But Sir Gawaine, said Sir Launcelot, ye shall not think that I tarry long, but sithen that ye so unknightly call me of treason, ye shall have both your hands full of me.
At this new mark of contempt, Ivo muttered, "Was ever knight treated in so unknightly a manner!
To this my Lord Hereward replied, "Did ever knight engage in such unknightly deed!
When Sir Palomides heard him say so he kneeled down and asked mercy, For outrageously have I done to you this day; considering the great deeds of arms I have seen you do, shamefully and unknightly I have required you to do battle.
So God me help, said Arthur, that was unknightly done of you of so good a knight, for I have heard many people call you a courteous knight.
Nay, father, so sweet and gentle a maid would ill mate with so unknightly a spouse!
Great Singer of the knightly lay, Thy tale of Flodden field Is darkened byunknightly stain.
The other knights agreed that Sir Kay had done most unknightly in thus picking a quarrel with one who had not offended, and he had merited defeat.
Now Heaven aid me,' said Beaumains, 'for this is a most shameful and unknightly custom, and well doth that evil knight deserve death.
This unknightly act of treachery excited general indignation throughout Europe, and the Pope having remonstrated with the king, he was obliged to set the count at liberty.
Don Louis, against whom this was aimed, burned for revenge, and endeavoured to obtain it in a most dastardly and unknightly manner.
But since you in this unknightly fashion charge me with treason, I warrant you shall have both hands full before you gain your end.
If it were not for the shame of an unknightly act I would deal you here the meed you have earned.
And the last day we met she gave me such a rebuke that I will never recover from it:--yet well I deserved it by my unknightly acts.
It was unknightly of him to say that," she cried at last, as if it hurt her.
That would have been very unknightly and disloyal," she said.
The light-footed youth attended the lord and his lady in the hall, and followed them in all their exercises of war and pleasure; and it was considered unknightly for a cavalier to wound a page in battle.
The Austrian leader then called to his side a well-experienced knight, and bade him ride to the Hungarian General, and invoke him by his chivalry to terminate this unknightly conflict.
Now I bid you go, find Sir Launcelot and bring him straightway hither that he may answer me to my face and that he may clear himself if he is able of that unknightly faithlessness.
Sir," quoth Sir Ewaine, "this is a very strange thing I hear, that Sir Sagramore should be travelling in that unknightly wise.
But that which shames us who are of thy blood, and they who are thy companions at arms, is that thou shouldst have achieved thy quest in so unknightly a fashion instead of with that dignity befitting a very worthy undertaking.
Sir Knight, why didst thou strike my companion so unknightly a blow as that?
Having done that unknightly deed, he now refuseth me any further test of battle, but allows me to lie beneath that shame which he put upon me.
I come," he said, "in the name of the people of England to demand the restoration of King Richard, most unjustly and unknightly detained a prisoner in his passage through your dominions.
If this unknightly lord venture to carry out his foul threats against me, let him do so.
But surely they would not be so unknightly as to hinder so great a champion of Christendom as King Richard on his homeward way?
He was of knightly blood, but has died in a most unknightly business.
But Reinald would in no wise permit so unknightly a deed, saying that Sibich must first slay him and all his friends ere such a thing should befall.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "unknightly" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
