How To Use Knight In A Sentence
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An. There's a testrill of me too: if one knight giue a
Twelfth Night (1623 First Folio Edition)
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I see his sensibility as basically that of an earlier age: he is a chivalric knight devoted to his lady; this devotion is like that of a medieval Christian who lives in the world yet profoundly venerates the Virgin Mary.
Sena Jeter Naslund - An interview with author
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One of the region's top teachers was awarded a knighthood in recognition of his services to education.
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So my idea is that we need these shining knights from the castle to journey forth on a quest.
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England's wars, waged successfully by humble bowmen as well as knights and noblemen, created among all ranks a self-confidence that warmed English hearts.
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Her job was to work the bar on weeknights, except Thursday, and Sunday night, and on Monday to Friday she had to work the golf course.
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And 'offloaded' him into a Master in anticipation of the great dark knight?
The Tao Of Sith
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Knighthood was given for displays of valour and courage, and he would need more experience to be in the position for that.
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The flame was glorious - radiant with the colours of antique knighthood and the flashing gallantries of the past; but no substance fed it; flaring wildly, it tossed to and fro in the wind; it was suddenly put out.
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Of this cruel knight and felonous you have avenged this country.
The High History of the Holy Graal
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Arthur announced, 'You are indeed brave, sir knight, but the fight is mine!'.
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And so when they had repasted them well, the dwarf returned again with his vessel unto the castle again; and there met with him the Red Knight of the Red Launds, and asked him from whence that he came, and where he had been.
Le Morte d'Arthur: Sir Thomas Malory's book of King Arthur and of his noble knights of the Round table
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Then the earle desired that he might put in mainprise, which was granted: and so the earle of Kent, sir Rafe Ferrers, sir Iohn Roch, & sir Iohn Draiton knights, mainprised the said earle bodie for bodie.
Chronicles (3 of 6): Historie of England (1 of 9) Henrie IV
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Well, if by that, they’re implicitly drawing a distinction with journalists... aka “gerbilists” they should beknight the guy who invented that term... then it’s a distinction without a difference.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Texas Islamic Groups Argue That Internet Speech Should Be Less Protected Than Print, Radio, or Television Speech:
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Both players were found guilty of foul and abusive language towards the match official during Acorn's defeat to Normanton Knights on November 20.
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By my faith," said the knight, "whatsoeer he be, he is unhappie; for, as I deeme, hee is of the fellowship of the Round Table, the which is entered into the quest of the Sancgreall.
Marmion
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Friday nights were the best weeknights for tips, both waitresses knew.
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He became physician general to the Army in the Austrian war of succession, was appointed physician to King George III, was knighted in 1762 and later received a baronetcy.
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When Sir Beaumains heard her say so, he abraid up with a great might and gat him upon his feet, and lightly he leapt to his sword and gripped it in his hand, and doubled his pace unto the Red Knight, and there they fought a new battle together.
Le Morte Darthur: Sir Thomas Malory's Book of King Arthur and of his Noble Knights of the Round Table, Volume 1
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When Sir Beaumains heard him say thus, he said, Sir knight, thou art full large of my horse and my harness; I let thee wit it cost thee nought, and whether it liketh thee or not, this laund will I pass maugre thine head.
Le Morte d'Arthur: Sir Thomas Malory's book of King Arthur and of his noble knights of the Round table
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Despite her claims to matchmaking, it seems like Mr. Knightley is a much better judge of the human heart.
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The man who dragged her from the house wore the shining, metal armor of a knight.
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The unclaimed jewellery was part of the estimated ￡60m haul taken from the Knightsbridge Security deposit box robbery in 1987.
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I think that we all deserve pats on the back for retaining the spelling knight after losing the silent velar fricative that once started the word, and for successfully mastering learning the various sound sequences that that master of disguise ough can hide (bough, trough, plough, through, tough, etc.).
Preposterous Apostrophes VII: Why Won’t Willn’t Work? « Motivated Grammar
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Anti-clerical knights of the shire who wished to disendow the Church, riotous tenants of an unpopular abbey, parishioners who refused to pay their tithes, would often be called
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 9: Laprade-Mass Liturgy
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One after another the _antichi spiriti dolenti_ rise up and salute the new edifice: Nimrod and the Assyrians, Anglo-Saxon ealdormen and Norman knights templars, and citizens of ancient Bristol.
A History of English Romanticism in the Eighteenth Century
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Clocking in at just over a dozen jobs, players will have warriors, red, black, and white mages, paladins, thieves, samurai, ninjas, dragoons, monks, summoners, beast masters, and dark knights at their disposal.
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But, had Perceval known thereof, he would have been little glad, for that he asked the knight to go for the horse, but he did it only for the best, and for that he rode in great misease.
The High History of the Holy Graal
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For Life Nobles and knights, only the person originally granted the arms bears them undifferenced.
Concordance A Terran Empire concordance
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Round Table is King Arthur's famed table in the Arthurian legend, around which he and his Knights congregate.
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It vexed him that the golden deeds of his youth had been largely forgotten and that no knighthood had been bestowed.
Times, Sunday Times
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The story is built around the adventures of 1knights.
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Knight will return to work May 12 and a full report of his trip will be chronicled in the next issue of Imprint.
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The view from the terrace is of the ornate columns of the upper stories of a building on West 70th Street built in 1926 for the Knights of Pythias.
Sanborn Seeks Home High Note
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The names Temple and Templeman were acquired from residence near one of the preceptories of the Knights Templars, and Spittlehouse (Chapter
The Romance of Names
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Knightley can currently be seen in Never Let Me Go, which also stars fellow short-haired actress Carey Mulligan.
Keira Knightley Debuts New 'Do
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Ms. Knight refused to accept the manager's apology.
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“Good Nectabanus, bethink thyself,” said the knight.
The Talisman
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McClure was knighted and showered with cash - the legacies of both are bound by a watery historical note: their ships lie on the ocean floor beneath Canada's Arctic Archipelago.
Thestar.com - Home Page
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Snoop Dogg left Mr. Knight's Death Row Records a year after that, and the label slowly declined.
NYT > Home Page
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But the Southern knights constantly wore these lateral dragon's wings; and if I can find their special name, it may perhaps be substituted with advantage for 'stipule'; but I have not wit enough by me just now to invent a term.
Proserpina, Volume 2 Studies Of Wayside Flowers
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There were the Knights of the Round Table, vowed to the highest ideals of chivalry, and the greatest of them, Sir Lancelot, who, of course, has a tragic love affair with the Queen.
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On my first dive with new digital camera housing in South Harbour at the Poor Knights Islands I encounter a striped boarfish with a long-finned boarfish.
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Philibert,” said the knight, executing a demivolt, in order to hide his emotion.
Novels by Eminent Hands
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He was an elf of great bearing, every bit the chivalrous knight and mentor.
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He™d carefully avoided Gareth thus far, afraid the Knight might find out whose slingstone nearly killed him.
Chosen Of The Gods
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He was knighted in 2003 for services to public life in Scotland.
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These gastropods have slender, high-spired, multiwhorled shells bearing a sinistral protoconch and were united by Knight in the family Streptacididae.
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However, the one demonstration he excelled at was portraying a knight's destrier (the Latin term for a warhorse).
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I looked up through the smoke of my cigarette and my eye lodged for a moment upon the burning coals, and that old fancy of the crimson flag flapping from the castle tower came into my mind, and I thought of the cavalcade of red knights riding up the side of the black rock.
Monday or Tuesday
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No selection from the alphabet, no doctorship, no fellowship, be it of ever so learned or royal a society, no knightship -- not though it be of the Garter -- confers so fair an honour.
Can You Forgive Her?
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He said the club had considered the York City Knights when planning the event to avoid a clash with the rugby league club's big home game with Keighley.
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Gaily bedight,/ A gallant knight/ In sunshine and in shadow, . . .
Archive 2010-01-10
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The list also includes Her Majesty The Queen, eight more Dukes, five Marquesses, thirteen Earls, five Viscounts, twenty-three Lords, seven Baronets, fifty-four Knights, two Dames and six Ladies.
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In addition the crusaders used light cavalry and horse archers in large numbers to harass the enemy, to scout, and to supplement the knights.
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a Knight Banneret, dubbed in the field of battle, but, _on carpet consideration_, at a festivity, or on sone peaceable occasion, when knights receive their dignity kneeling not on the ground, as in war, but on a _carpet_.
Notes to Shakespeare — Volume 01: Comedies
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It tells the tale of King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table and their quest for the Holy Grail.
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Last week, your mild mannered reporter was walking through Knightsbridge, and he glanced in an easterly direction.
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A Pembrokeshire man, he established his reputation as a jouster and was knighted at Edward VI's coronation.
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Little galliardise stirring, my lord," answered the knight.
The Fair Maid of Perth St. Valentine's Day
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Even yielding is what a knight does on the field of battle when he accepts that he has lost.
WE RULE THE WORLD; WE JUST LEAVE THEM THE DRY PARTS
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Counts, knights, barons and marquesses gathered in the guilded ballroom of the hotel to mark the focal event of the aristocratic social calendar.
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He is no mere traitor or felon knight, much less a coward, from the first; but at that first shows a mixture of good and bad qualities in which the "dram of eale" does its usual office.
A History of the French Novel, Vol. 1 From the Beginning to 1800
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Putting the zing back into the Knightsbridge store is her priority.
Times, Sunday Times
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Did I not tell you that the buffaloes are the Knights of the Jungle?
The Wonders of the Jungle Book One
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But knighthood is an honour, not a peerage; he remained a member of the House of Commons until his retirement in 2001.
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It would seem that, although the Knight had the accomplishment of that result as much at heart as the priest himself, his national pride and patriotism relucted at the idea that English colonies should become possessions of the hereditary enemies of his nation.
The Knight of the Golden Melice A Historical Romance
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Sir knight, said the two brethren, we are forfoughten and much blood have we lost through our wilfulness, and therefore we would be loath to have ado with you.
Le Morte d'Arthur: Sir Thomas Malory's book of King Arthur and of his noble knights of the Round table
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Here, despite our fear of pursuit, despite the awful fetor of the rotting bodies, we had to pause to search through the knights ' gear.
THE LIGHTSTONE: BOOK ONE, PART TWO OF THE EA CYCLE
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But because of his serious dedication to knight errantry, DQ is able to spin all of the outrageous things that happen so that windmills and wineskins are giants and the inn is an enchanted castle.
Great Comedic Partners « So Many Books
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The vulgar always knew what General danced with the lovely Miss A., and how they looked, and what they said to each other; how many jewels Miss A. wore, and the material her dress was made of; they knew who polkaed with the accomplished Miss B., and how like a duchess she bore herself; they had the exact name of the colonel who dashed along so like a knight with the graceful and much-admired Mrs. D., whose husband was abroad serving his country; what gallant captain of dragoons (captains of infantry were looked upon as not what they might be) promenaded so imperiously with the vivacious Miss E.; and what distinguished foreigner sat all night in the corner holding a suspicious and very improper conversation with Miss
An Outcast or, Virtue and Faith
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'Now am I well lighted here,' he said, 'for this is the very goblet which thy robber knight Sir Lancelot reaved from my brother, Sir
King Arthur's Knights The Tales Re-told for Boys & Girls
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Some people link Mary to the Holy Grail and the Knights Templar.
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Not many people get knighted and become president in such a short period!
The Sun
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And Messire Gawain searcheth the ranks to find the knight, albeit when he meeteth knight in his way he cannot choose but do whatsoever a knight may do of arms, and yet more would he have done but for his fainness to seek out the knight.
The High History of the Holy Graal
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The horse of one of the lead knights threw its rider and bolted backward.
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The club needs a knight on a white charger who wants to stick around and ensure a bright future.
The Sun
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Representatives from the Knights of Pythias secular fraternity were not able to offer insight into the disproportionate number of Jewish names on the plague.
Laura Silver: On Veterans, Crosses And Shields
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Give him a knighthood and just be done with it.
Times, Sunday Times
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What a comeback from the knight of the realm.
The Sun
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Look at Caryopteris, Ceanothus 'Blue Cushion', Ceratostigma and Hibiscus 'Blue Bird', or buddleias 'Black Knight' (an inky blue) or 'Lochinch' (sky blue), or perennials Veronica 'Shirley Blue' and Perovskia 'Blue Spire'.
Stumped? Tulips and blue plants
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The White Knight turbojet aircraft climbs over the Mojave desert with SpaceShipOne attached to its underbelly.
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--- but I humbled myself, and apologised to Redcowl; for, even in my younger days, I was no friend to the monomachia, or duel, and would rather walk with Sir Priest than with Sir Knight --- I care not who knows so much of my valour.
The Antiquary
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The screen veteran is the biggest name on the Queen's birthday honours list, receiving a knighthood.
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SO was there sikerness made on both parties that no treason should be wrought on neither party; so then the knights departed and made them ready, and that night Sir Uwaine had great cheer.
Le Morte d'Arthur: Sir Thomas Malory's book of King Arthur and of his noble knights of the Round table
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And sithen hitherward might no knight see her, but that he died anon.
The Travels of Sir John Mandeville
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Here, brother Sancho Panza," said Don Quixote when he saw it, "we may plunge our hands up to the elbows in what they call adventures; but observe, even shouldst thou see me in the greatest danger in the world, thou must not put a hand to thy sword in my defence, unless indeed thou perceivest that those who assail me are rabble or base folk; for in that case thou mayest very properly aid me; but if they be knights it is on no account permitted or allowed thee by the laws of knighthood to help me until thou hast been dubbed a knight.
The History of Don Quixote, Volume 1, Complete
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She consulted the astrologer to find out whether her husband would be knighted.
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He cannot, as it were, imagine his manly project without an enemy, and oddly enough, the woman reader stands in for this enemy — literally, the effeminated reader rather than the female one — instead of standing in for the ennabling reader, she who urges the knight onward or who needs to be rescued by his valiant acts.
Wordsworths Balladry: Real Men Wanted
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Amongst the most famous of these crusader orders were the Order of the Knights Templar.
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Why, there is the knight your father, and my lady your mother; and there is her father that is half crazy with his religion, and her aunt that wears eternal black grogram for that unlucky Colonel Christian; and there is the Countess of Derby that would serve us all with the same sauce if we were thinking of anything that would displease her.
The World's Greatest Books — Volume 07 — Fiction
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Gaily bedight,/ A gallant knight/ In sunshine and ...
Archive 2010-01-10
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Black is a rook for bishop ahead but has problems because his knight on c4 is stuck.
Times, Sunday Times
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And then came that English knight, if it please you, and if he hasna killed my son outright, he has chased him aff the gate, and it may be lang eneugh ere I see him again — forby the damage done to outer door and inner door.
The Monastery
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I would rather have that than a knighthood or peerage.
The Sun
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The balance of this first fytte consists mostly of lengthy dialogue detailing the knight's impoverishment.
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When all had been rehearsed and shown to him, and he had well considered the matter, the knight was very dolent; yet in no wise would he avenge himself wrongfully.
French Mediaeval Romances from the Lays of Marie de France
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The Welsh rugby fan said he was delighted to meet Sir Clive Woodward, who was at the palace to receive his knighthood.
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Her heart beat quick and her face changed, yet she hastened, and was shod and stood up in knightly array by then he stayed his steps some five paces from her, and gave her the sele of the day in courteous wise; and she strove to think that he had not seen her, or at least noted her otherwise dight; yet her heart misgave her.
The Water of the Wondrous Isles
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Sir William Lucas had been formerly in trade in Meryton, where he had made a tolerable fortune and risen to the honour of knighthood by an address to the King during his mayoralty.
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Chain mail alternated with steel plates that had been bent around the knight seamlessly so as not to impede his movement.
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Will any of your correspondents be so kind as to inform me if the device on the corbel was the badge of the knights of the order of St. John of
Notes and Queries, Number 76, April 12, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc
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The axolotl is the champion of vertebrate regeneration, with the ability to replace whole limbs and even parts of its central nervous system," says Edward Scott, Ph. D., principal investigator for the grant and director of the McKnight Brain Institute's program in stem cell biology and regenerative medicine.
GEN News Highlights
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They all had expensive appointments and untold luxuries for the knights, lords, dukes and princes who served the king.
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One Russian businessman even ordered an exact copy of a room at the palace of Versailles for his house in Knightsbridge, complete with identical cornices and plasterwork, as well as real gold leaf and plating.
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Then King Arthur and all the kings and knights kneeled down and gave thankings and lovings unto God and to His Blessed Mother.
Le Morte d'Arthur: Sir Thomas Malory's book of King Arthur and of his noble knights of the Round table
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He could remember being told great stories about the chivalrous knights in his grandfather's time, those whom had fought with honour, discipline and great skill.
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The knight was now looking around through a single monocle at all the boys passing by, sizing one up for a leader.
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However, war had moved on from the time of the Battle of Hastings and the longbow was now the most feared of weapons and not the knight on horseback.
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With a new name adorning the number one position after almost every match, the Daredevils, who climbed to the coveted position after trampling over event's whipping boys Kolkata Knight Riders by nine wickets, would have to up the ante when they take on Sachin Tendulkar's army for the first time in the tournament.
Times Now
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Knight, who is in Los Angeles County Jail on a probation violation, could not be reached for comment.
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Presently it opened and disclosed fifty horsemen, gathered together to waylay merchants on the highway, and their captain, by name Kahrdash, was a lion in daring and dash; a furious lion who layeth knights flat as carpets in battle-crash. —
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
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Nowadays, major disclosures of the soon-to-be recipients of knighthoods and peerages are commonplace.
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Even got knighted for his efforts, retired to the English countryside.
OFF THE CHART
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The concept was revived in the early 20th century by economists Joseph Schumpeter and Frank Knight.
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Though founded especially for military objects, as for instance the defence of the holy places at Jerusalem, when not so engaged, these knights lived a kind of a religious life in commanderies or preceptories, established on the estates belonging to their order.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 2: Assizes-Browne
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Wizards, witches and sorcery twine with knights and kings.
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Lost for words, experiencing an unwelcome and sudden sense of dread, she mounted her own charger and spurred it after the knight, who was riding up to join King Lot.
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Paul McCartney is knighted by the Queen of England.
Len Berman: Top 5 Sports Stories
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He would become her knight and devote himself to her service, though his passion for her would rarely be consummated.
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As already noted, the king sent two countesses, two knights, four ladies and Sir Marmaduke Darell, as paymaster, to meet the royal family as they entered England, and to bring them south.
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The guards in the towers stared in disbelief at the sight of fourscore Gauntlet Knights pounding toward them.
The Gauntlet Thrown Chapter Thirty Seven
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Then she took reckoning of the dead and found that he had slain fourscore of the Knights, and other twenty had taken to flight. 202 When she saw what work he had made with them she said to him, Allah bless thee, O Sharrkan!
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
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If you are reading something, language areas oscillate in theta frequency allowing high-gamma-related neural activity in individual neurons to transmit information, said Knight.
Slow Brain Waves are Key to Complex Activities | Impact Lab
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Then I saw that this was no knight, but the Maid herself, boden in effeir of war,
A Monk of Fife
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Tales of the paladins of Charlemagne once rivalled the stories of King Arthur and the knights of the Round Table in popularity.
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According to the lawsuit, Dr. Dre has not seen any royalties from his groundbreaking hit album The Chronic since 1996, the year he left the label due to a strained relationship with Knight.
Hip Hop News | CurveHouse.com
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Controversially, in 1997 she published Emma in Love, an update of Jane Austen's novel in which Emma leaves her marriage to Mr Knightley unconsummated and falls passionately in love with a French baroness.
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He has a very active queen, good knight against bad bishop and White's exposed pawns to attack.
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i think the only way to get people back interested in superman is to do either a live action movie based on "The Death of Superman" (or Doomsday whatever they call it) or the do a live action version of "Worlds Finest" with Christian Bale as Batman with the same gritty feel as Batman Begins and The Dark knight.
Warner Brothers and DC Comics Getting Their Shit Together « FirstShowing.net
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At last Dom Fernando, the youngest of the brothers, a lad of fourteen, proposed that their knighthood should be earned by an expedition to take Ceuta from the Moors.
A Book of Golden Deeds
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They banqueted in the hall where in medieval times the Teutonic Knights had feasted.
Emancipation
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At Crécy they decisively repulsed a mounted charge by French knights.
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Then bold Siegfried changed his voice and spake: “I am a knight; do up the door, else will I enrage many a one outside today, who would liefer lie soft and take his ease.”
The Nibelungenlied
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He calls Keira Knightley 'brilliant,' Robert Downey Jr. 'glib'-and turned down' The Girl
Macleans.ca
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The sinister, murky world of espionage is laid bare in this revised and updated edition of Philip Knightley's powerful book about spies and spying in the 20th century.
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The tall, heavy shields provided a wall from behind which each knight fought.
THE WOLF AND THE DOVE
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Dismounting before it, each knight avouched the justice of his cause by a solemn oath on the Evangelists, and prayed that his success might be according to the truth or falsehood of what he then swore.
The Talisman
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Knight, somewhat blamably, keenly enjoyed sparring with the palpitating mobile creature, whose excitable nature made any such thing a species of cruelty.
A Pair of Blue Eyes
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Who are these irresponsible people who should be denied social housing, knighthoods and bonuses?
Times, Sunday Times
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The knight tilted at his opponent.
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He had just been given a knighthood!
Times, Sunday Times
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There are nearly 200 knights, lords, and their ladies milling about, conversing, boasting, laughing.
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Lean was nominated for Oscars for directing, adapting and editing the film, and in June 1984 he was knighted.
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a Saxon knight known as Sir Ordgar, a "thegn," (1) or baronet, of
Historic Girls
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At the time when Master Pihringer came to dwell with us, Herdegen was already high enough to pass into the upper school, for he was first in his 'ordo'; but our guardian, the old knight Hans Im Hoff, of whom I shall have much to tell, held that he was yet too young for the risks of
Complete Project Gutenberg Georg Ebers Works
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Sir Joseph's knighthood was the final feather in his cap after years of dedicated service to the community.
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They tell tales ranging from courtly romances full of gallant knights and maidens-in-distress to rude fabliaux telling of the perils of drink, fighting and lust!
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Winning one more pawn, Saravanan never looked back and closed in on his opponent in a rook-bishop-knight ending by queening his pawn.
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Then the good man enjoined Sir Launcelot such penance as he might do and to sewe knighthood, and so assoiled him, and prayed
Le Morte d'Arthur: Sir Thomas Malory's book of King Arthur and of his noble knights of the Round table
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On the season knight appears insufficiently stable, but the playoff they still nearly eliminated Celts.
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Knight had already indicated a correlation of the need of micro-organisms for "growth-factors" with failure of synthesis, and correlated this failure with evolution, particularly in relation to the complex environment of "fastidious" pathogenic micro-organisms.
Edward Tatum - Nobel Lecture
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Day visited Sir Norman at his nursing home last year and said that despite his failing health, he remembered pretending to stumble after receiving his knighthood from the Queen in 2000, asking: "Do you remember when I tripped?
Norman Wisdom, last survivor of the music halls, dies aged 95
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How can we take without either a shudder or a laugh the abject refusal of Emmathat "imaginist," self-indulgent, independent, charmingly creative and snobbish heroineto call Knightley "George" after they are betrothed: "I never can call you any thing but Mr. Knightley" (III. xvii, 420).
Box Hill and the Limits of Realism
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Fifteen days he remained quietly at home, without giving any argument of seconding his former vanities; in which time passed many pleasant encounters between him and his two gossips, the curate and barber, upon that point which he defended, to wit, that the world needed nothing so much as knights-errant, and that the erratical knighthood ought to be again renewed therein.
The First Part. VII. Of the Second Departure Which Our Good Knight, Don Quixote, Made from His House to Seek Adventures
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Much of Gaius's squiredom was spent fetching and carrying for the knight, lugging spare weapons and armour around while his master dispensed advice, ostensibly teaching the youth the virtues of humility and laboriousness.
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You wanna go play knight to the damsel, you'll wake up next Christmas with an ice bag for a brain.
BLOOD IS DIRT
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That is not to say that the English thegn was any less formidable than the Norman knight, as Hastings was to show.
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I saw that she lay in the position of old knightly tomb figures, her legs crossed at the ankles, a long black sword clasped between her breasts and a red sandstone bowl on her chest from which rose a willowy plume of smoke.
The Skrayling Tree
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Second, the knights and burgesses soon realized that they held the purse strings: the Second Statute of 14 Edward III (1341), sometimes called the Statute de Tallagio non Concedendo (no taxation without representation) required that all nonfeudal levies receive parliamentary approval.
1347-55
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When Knight became leader, the council was run by a clique of officers largely unaccountable to the elected members.
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The two men received knighthoods at about the same time.
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The Rev David Knight, rural dean for Shipston deanery, said the money would be spent on ‘necessary but unglamorous’ masonry and glazing repairs.
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To move her bishop to strike his knight would leave the king open on two sides without escape, a checkmate.
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The play scoffs at citizens like Gertrude who marry above their station; at wannabe gallants like Quicksilver the apprentice; and at ‘false’ gentlemen such as the new-made knight Sir Petronel Flash.
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Then the good man enjoined Sir Launcelot such penance as he might do and to sewe knighthood, and so assoiled him, and prayed
Le Morte d'Arthur: Sir Thomas Malory's book of King Arthur and of his noble knights of the Round table
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The other sub that day, making his debut, was Gary Smith, father of current Knights hero Chris.
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It might have ended in defeat but York City Knights laid down a marker for themselves yesterday with a performance full of pride, effort and ability.
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The two women were on an inspection tour of the Rose Hilaire empire: Baker Street, Bond Street, Knightsbridge and Sloane Street.
COFFIN IN FASHION
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Then she called the hermit: Sir Ulfin, I am a gentlewoman that would speak with the knight which is with you.
Le Morte d'Arthur: Sir Thomas Malory's book of King Arthur and of his noble knights of the Round table
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The which Commissioners made report to the lordes that they had found the knights in good order of harnesse and other things necessary for warre, and their araie faire and proper, with crosses on them.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 05 Central and Southern Europe
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Knight constructs a constantly evolving collage by layering the rhythmic play of street lights reflected in glass.
Times, Sunday Times
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Wulfgar must have rewarded her handsomely for her favor, for of a surety that baseborn knight had no social graces.
THE WOLF AND THE DOVE
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The Gulf Stream is a benign, liquid force, flowing from under the ribs of the equator, -- a white knight of the South going up to battle the giant of the North.
The Complete Project Gutenberg Writings of Charles Dudley Warner
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Consider this: the man in charge of the foreign aid fiasco is knighted.
The Sun
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But the time when Cuculain should be knighted, that is to say, invested with arms, and solemnly received into the Red Branch as man to the high King of all Ulla, now drew on, and such a knighting as that, and under such signs, omens, and portents, has never been recorded anywhere in the history of the nations.
The Coming of Cuculain
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The knight wore no armor, but carried a sprig of holly in one hand, and an enormous axe in the other.
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Theoretically the number of baronets and knights can be established at different periods, but this is not the case with the third and fourth categories of gentry, esquires and gentlemen.
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Changes in war, government, and economy made the chivalrous, aristocratic knight obsolete and the Renaissance made classical literature more popular.
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Especially too cartoony for a 10pm weeknight slot.
Times, Sunday Times
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Knight will most likely not be cited for the smashup, which is now a case for the parties 'respective insurance companies.
Queerty
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The evening was quiet and conversable, as Mr. Woodhouse declined cards entirely for the sake of comfortable talk with his dear Isabella, and the little party made two natural divisions; on one side he and his daughter; on the other the two Mr. Knightleys; their subjects totally distinct, or very rarely mixing — and Emma only occasionally joining in one or the other.
Emma
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All about us billowed a profusion of wild beauty; and though for a long time there was nothing alive in sight except a flock of bright pink sheep, my stage-managing fancy called up knights of the round table, "pricking" o'er the downs on their panoplied steeds to the rescue of fair, distressed damsels.
Set in Silver
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One entire flank of the Witch King's army was held by Chaos Knights and their bestial retinues.
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The knights all sat impatiently on their mounts, while several grooms loaded some packhorses with a month's worth of supplies, food, blankets, and clothing.
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When not at combat readiness, the mailed knight would unfasten his ventail, throw back his coif, and turn back his mittens.
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Teutonic Knights' Major Chapter House is a place where the finest German Christian warriors reside, training and devoting themselves to the order's pursuits.
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Royal finance: (1) nonfeudal revenues: Danegeld, shire farms, judicial fines; (2) the usual feudal revenues: relief (inheritance tax on great fiefs), scutage (paid in lieu of performance of knight's service).
B. The British Isles
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I don't want to be crowned king, rude man, with your laidly moustache: I want to be made knight, and have banderol and baldric.
Harold : the Last of the Saxon Kings — Complete
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In the anteroom was the knight in black armor whom Myles had seen from the window.
Men of Iron
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A hippogriff is a noble beast: In the few medieval legends when this fantastic creature makes an appearance, it is usually the pet of either a knight or a sorcerer.
Dick Cheney, the Unique Creature
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Worse, the fact that biopics are structured as heroic romance makes the possibility of dramatic interpretation of character more remote: the knights of romance embody noble ideals and elicit only unmixed reactions.
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Warwickshire closed on 70 for 3, and unless there is a clatter of wickets or a generous declaration by Nick Knight this match is drifting to a draw.
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Knight will continue to play for the club, but wants more time to be able to deal with his other commitments as well as prepare for his career after cricket.
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They offered an outlet for the ambitions of land-hungry knights and noblemen.
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The reboots of "The Amazing Spider-Man" and the final installment of "The Dark Knight" trilogy have more in common than you might anticipate.
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The Green Knight, several yards away, weapons chik-chaking into action, began vomiting forth bullets, spraying them at the demonic cannon fodder.
Superhero Nation: how to write superhero novels and comic books » Stefan’s Review Forum
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Some 50 packages of the highly toxic fumigant magnesium phosphide washed up in April after a spill near the Poor Knights Islands.
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It's a measure of Coach Hiro's grasp of the game that the Knights won their league without the presence of a tall sharpshooter, which is what Hiro was some two decades ago.
Starbulletin Headlines
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She turned the school around and in 2001 she was knighted for her services to education.
