How To Use Knighthood In A Sentence
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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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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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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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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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Give him a knighthood and just be done with it.
Times, Sunday Times
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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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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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I would rather have that than a knighthood or peerage.
The Sun
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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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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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Nowadays, major disclosures of the soon-to-be recipients of knighthoods and peerages are commonplace.
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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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Who are these irresponsible people who should be denied social housing, knighthoods and bonuses?
Times, Sunday Times
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He had just been given a knighthood!
Times, Sunday Times
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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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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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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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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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The two men received knighthoods at about the same time.
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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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Then the good man enjoined Sir Launcelot such penance as he might do and to pursue knighthood, and so assoiled him, and prayed Sir Launcelot to abide with him all that day.
Chronicle and Romance (The Harvard Classics Series)
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And in this respect he did advise him, seeing he might yet command him, as one that, by receiving the order of knighthood at his hands, should very shortly become his godchild, that he should not travel from thenceforward without money and other the preventions he had then given unto him; and he should perceive himself how behooveful they would prove unto him when he least expected it.
The First Part. III. Wherein Is Recounted the Pleasant Manner Observed in the Knighting of Don Quixote
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Likewise, Kel faces misogyny, as the first girl to try for knighthood without disguising herself as a boy, and in the first book her obstacle is the misogyny of her authority figures.
Reading Update and a Long Detour About Indy Bookstores
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His entrepreneurial flair combined with a political career that earned him a knighthood and a peerage.
Times, Sunday Times
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They regarded knighthood as a part of their signorial parade.
Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Third series
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Iam proposing a knighthood for services to cricket.
Times, Sunday Times
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He never boasted of his achievements and in fact he refused a knighthood which was offered to him in 1847.
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In February 2002 he received a knighthood from the Queen for his services to local government.
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That is truth, said Sir Tristram, Sir Launcelot is called peerless of courtesy and of knighthood; and for his sake, said Sir Tristram, I will not with my good will fight no more with you, for the great love I have to Sir Launcelot du Lake.
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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This quiet, retiring man refused a knighthood more than once.
Times, Sunday Times
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He was officially exposed as a spy by then Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher in 1979 and was stripped of his knighthood.
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The roof is ornamented with three cherubs, representing England, Scotland and Ireland, supporting the royal crown and holding the sceptre, sword of state and ensign of knighthood.
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His knighthood is the latest of dozens of awards and honours conferred on him.
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There is a faint trace of a smile, but he does not flinch: whatever the honorary boyo's faults, he is unlikely to be bought with a knighthood.
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All of the mainstream parties have nominated their donors, especially the generous ones, for peerages or knighthoods.
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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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Bookmakers are offering odds of 500-1 that Rooney will receive a knighthood after his explosive Reds debut.
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The roof is ornamented with three cherubs, representing England, Scotland and Ireland, supporting the royal crown and holding the sceptre, sword of state and ensign of knighthood.
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The recommendation of a knighthood will be a further fillip for the status of Olympic athletes.
Times, Sunday Times
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Iran (the declared enemy) called the knighthood an "insulting, suspicious and improper act by the British Government in an obvious example of fighting against Islam.
Momekh: To Sir, With What?
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No earldom, baronetage, or knighthood protected him.
The Common Reader, Second Series
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He received a knighthood in the New Year's Honours list.
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Europe, that their business was considered as one of great honor, and that they were permitted to assume what may be called heraldic devices on their standards, to carry bright-feathered plumes, and to wear gold ornaments -- such decorations being only allowed to warriors who had, by their deeds in battle, been admitted into an institution which closely resembled that of knighthood; all others dressing in plain white cloths, woven from thread obtained from the aloe.
By Right of Conquest Or, With Cortez in Mexico
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The honour of knighthood derives from the usages of mediaeval chivalry, as does the method normally used to confer the knighthood: the accolade, or the touch of a sword by the Sovereign.
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He has received a knighthood in recognition of his services to education.
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When he got his knighthood, I asked him if he might reapply for membership.
Times, Sunday Times
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Nowadays, major disclosures of the soon-to-be recipients of knighthoods and peerages are commonplace.
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In Britain they'd have given him a knighthood.
Times, Sunday Times
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For this multiyear struggle, he deserves a knighthood.
The Sun
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Prince's Trust chief executive Tom Shebbeare received a knighthood in the Queen's personal honours list.
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Fantastic player, true gent and deserves a knighthood.
The Sun
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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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It is the best bit of space opera I ever wrote, and yet the Queen of England has not offered me a knighthood, or even a squireship.
What's the Most Underrated Space Opera Novel?
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Lou Gerstner, high panjandrum at IBM, has been awarded an honorary knighthood in the Queen's latest birthday honours list.
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About a quarter have been honoured with a knighthood or peerage.
Times, Sunday Times
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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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The Queen conferred knighthoods on several distinguished men.
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Erich Reich, a refugee from Nazi-occupied Europe who organized last year's 70th anniversary of the "Kindertransport," which brought 10,000 children to wartime Britain, also received a knighthood.
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Honorary knighthoods for foreign citizens are occasionally presented at investitures at the Palace.
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No. Waiting to be given a knighthood.
Times, Sunday Times
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Others finger Salman Rushdie's knighthood as an incitement of Muslim outrage.
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He thought he deserved a knighthood.
The Times Literary Supplement
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Knighthood valorized individual self-sacrifice for greater social welfare.
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He retired in 2002 - the same year as he received his knighthood.
The Sun
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Sir Patrick said his knighthood – announced in the New Year Honours List – had been “an unlooked-for honour”.
Pink is the New Blog | Everybody's Business Is My Business » Blog Archive » Patrick Stewart Knighted By Queen Elizabeth II
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It will be hours of argument with that rule-bound precisian Androctus, hours of searching for precedent in the Solamnic Measure of Knighthood.
Virginity
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His knighthood is for services to the financial services industry.
Times, Sunday Times
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The roof is ornamented with three cherubs, representing England, Scotland and Ireland, supporting the royal crown and holding the sceptre, sword of state and ensign of knighthood.
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Honours, such as knighthoods, peerages, and other decorations, are awarded on his recommendation.
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People who get knighthoods should be people who save lives.
The Sun
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Forget the honorary knighthood, you know you're famous when the French coin a Franglais soubriquet for you.
Dom Ghosn Dom Ghosn
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It is not necessary to have a knighthood to get an invitation but clearly it helps.
Times, Sunday Times
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His entrepreneurial flair combined with a political career that earned him a knighthood and a peerage.
Times, Sunday Times
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I have translated _squire_, because the donzel was a youth of gentle birth awaiting knighthood.
Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Complete Series I, II, and III
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It is only afterwards that, surviving many minor gods of war, he becomes a leader of hosts, a sort of divine knight and patron of knighthood; and, through the old intricate connexion of love and war, and that amorousness which is the universally conceded privilege of the soldier's life, he comes to be very near Aphrodite, -- the paramour of the goddess of physical beauty.
Greek Studies: a Series of Essays
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What more does this man need to prove to get his knighthood?
Times, Sunday Times
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Tianji's founder Derek Ling and tianji COO Mr. Feifan received Knighthood at the same party.
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Pals launched a campaign for a knighthood to honour his bravery and his tireless charity work since the war.
The Sun
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Elgar received many honours, including a knighthood in 1904, the Order of Merit in 1911, and a baronetcy in 1931.
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Knighthood was conferred by the overlord with the accolade.
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Aldridge went on to tour the European continent, garnering numerous honors, including a knighthood from the Duke of Saxe-Meiningen, and transforming Russian acting technique with his naturalistic style.
Introduction
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Honorary knighthoods for foreign citizens are occasionally presented at investitures at the Palace.
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According to the BBC, he called the knighthood an “unlooked for honour”.
Arise, Sir Patrick of the Enterprise : Chronicles Network: Science Fiction & Fantasy
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If you survive being a page, and can stand being a squire, and pass the test of knighthood, then, and only then, will you be worthy of the title of a knight.
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They would become "pert," as pages were supposed to be, and diffident as esquires, but as knights they would come back of themselves to the perfect ways of their childhood with a grace that became well the strength and self-possession of their knighthood.
The Education of Catholic Girls
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It was on that fatal spot that he conferred on his son the honor of knighthood: and the ceremony was accomplished by a slight blow from each of the horsemen of the guard, and by a ridiculous and inhuman ablution from a pool of water, which was yet polluted with patrician blood.
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
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These people will never win Emmys, Grammys, Oscars or knighthoods because their work fits outside of the acceptable social code.
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He was wounded in that war, and the end of it saw him receive a knighthood.
WHEN SCOTLAND RULED THE WORLD: The Story of the Golden Age of Genius, Creativity and Exploration
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Before entering the Senate, he held (as stated in the chief inscription, given below) the decemvirate _litibus iudicandis_, the military tribunate in the third Gallic legion, and the title of Sevir in the Roman knighthood.
The Student's Companion to Latin Authors
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La Mancha as the knight's country and scene of his chivalries is of a piece with the pasteboard helmet, the farm – labourer on ass-back for a squire, knighthood conferred by a rascally ventero, convicts taken for victims of oppression, and the rest of the incongruities between Don Quixote's world and the world he lived in, between things as he saw them and things as they were.
Don Quixote
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The rhetoric of Knighthood located individual Knights of Columbus within an unbroken lineage of valiant Christian knights, and specifically valorized the Catholic component of chivalrous manhood.
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Unlike the hereditary peerages of old, knighthoods are not bestowed according to birth or social status.
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Also the dry tree and the white lily: the dry tree betokeneth thy brother Lionel, which is dry without virtue, and therefore many men ought to call him the rotten tree, and the worm-eaten tree, for he is a murderer and doth contrary to the order of knighthood.
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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Nowadays, major disclosures of the soon-to-be recipients of knighthoods and peerages are commonplace.
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Other wacky policies include turning the town hall in Oldham into a zoo and giving the town's football club mascot a knighthood.
The Sun
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When he got his knighthood, I asked him if he might reapply for membership.
Times, Sunday Times
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When aiming for this ideal, goodness does not mean aestheticism, nor does knighthood mean adultery.
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Bazalgette, a descendant of the great Victorian civil engineer responsible for building London's sewers, said: "To receive a knighthood is a delightful compliment and I am acknowledging it as recognition for television's thriving independent production sector in general.
New Year honours recognise successes in poetry, prose – and reality TV
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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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And yet he remained the only major explorer of the age never to receive a knighthood.
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Sir, said Sir Lamorak, now I understand your knighthood, it may not be false that all men say, for of your bounty, noblesse, and worship, of all knights ye are peerless, and for your courtesy and gentleness I showed you ungentleness, and that now me repenteth.
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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She didn't get off to a good start with a botched explanation of why giving Salman Rushdie a knighthood was a bad idea.
Question Time
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The Queen requited his services with a knighthood.
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There were unfounded fears that his departure would prompt an exodus or that people would simply go for the job for the knighthood.
Times, Sunday Times
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I, who am a high clerk, and have studied in Spain, and Araby itself, not be able to deceive the eyes of this hoggish herd of citizens, when the pettiest juggler that ever dealt in legerdemain can gull even the sharp observation of your most intelligent knighthood?
The Fair Maid of Perth
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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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Call therefore to memory, and if you find anything of this kind to commend to my correction, you need not but once to say it; for I do promise you, by the order of knighthood which I have received, to satisfy and apay you according to your own desire.
The Third Book. III. Wherein Are Rehearsed the Innumerable Misfortunes Which Don Quixote and His Good Squire Sancho Suffered in the Inn, Which He, to His Harm, Thought to Be a Castle
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Dr. Siemens has received many honours from learned societies at home and abroad; and a title equivalent to knighthood from the German Government.
Heroes of the Telegraph
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Unlike the hereditary peerages of old, knighthoods are not bestowed according to birth or social status.
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The decision to recommend that Salman Rushdie receive a knighthood was a bold and correct one.
Petitions
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Pals launched a campaign for a knighthood to honour his bravery and his tireless charity work since the war.
The Sun
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Having previously declined a knighthood, Heaton was made a baronet in 1912.
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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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Getting the knighthood was a terrific surprise.
Times, Sunday Times
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The Queen has bestowed a knighthood on him.
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I am afraid I have seen only fragments of his programmes, but my desk is covered with letters from people who think he should be given a knighthood, or a hereditary earldom, for his campaign.
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Much loved comedy legend Eric Sykes has scooped a top honour - but missed out on his knighthood.
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Ah, benedicite! how he will mourn over the fall of such a pearl of knighthood, be it on the side he happens to favour, or on the other.
Old Mortality
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Still, though, there are more medals than knighthoods.
Times, Sunday Times
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He was rewarded with a knighthood for his service to the government.
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In 1922 evidence emerged that he had been awarding knighthoods and peerages in return for money.
Times, Sunday Times
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He does not need a knighthood from a German Queen as you suggest, Henry Jones-Davies because, unbeknown to you, he’s been awarded the Order of the Pink Freesia by the Dear Leader himself - the highest honour that North Korea can bestow on a foreigner!
London-centric Leighton
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The timing of the incident could not have been more symbolic - it came while Karzai was away in Britain collecting an honorary knighthood from the Queen.
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This gave rise to doubts about whether he was fit to receive a knighthood.
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To top it all, he was tipped to receive a knighthood.
Times, Sunday Times
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Unlike the hereditary peerages of old, knighthoods are not bestowed according to birth or social status.
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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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One wanted 2.5m for a school, another an honorary knighthood.
Times, Sunday Times
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He commented that they all deserved their knighthoods as much for that as for their writing.
Times, Sunday Times
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Governments showered financiers with praise, dinner invitations and knighthoods.
The Times Literary Supplement
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He was given a knighthood for his services to literature.
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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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Among which he ordained that none of this land should receive the order of knighthood, but only at Rome by the hands of the emperor, lest peradventure the rude people and unworthy would take upon them that order unworthily, which is of great dignity, and also they should make an oath never to rebel ne bear arms against the emperor, which statutes were used in all places obedient to Rome and under their subjection.
The Golden Legend, vol. 3
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There is a faint trace of a smile, but he does not flinch: whatever the honorary boyo's faults, he is unlikely to be bought with a knighthood.
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Well recovered: give that man another knighthood.
Times, Sunday Times
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If we were a genuine republic, one of our leading businessmen would not have dared to obsequiously accept a knighthood from a British monarch.
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Peter Bottomley, the veteran Conservative MP for Worthing West, was given a knighthood.
Roll up, roll up as David Cameron revives political honours
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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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as quixotic as a restoration of medieval knighthood
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Professor Ian Kershaw received a knighthood for his services to history.
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The recommendation of a knighthood will be a further fillip for the status of Olympic athletes.
Times, Sunday Times
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In 1999 his charity work gained him a knighthood to add to his life peerage from Margaret Thatcher.
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But I, donzel, wear the spurs of knighthood, and to succour the distressed is a duty my oath will not let me swerve from.
The Last of the Barons — Complete
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He deserves a knighthood for his courage, grit and determination.
The Sun
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Sir Richard Thompson received a knighthood for his post as head of the Queen's medical household and physician to the Queen.
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The Accolade was a ceremony anciently used in conferring knighthood.
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Knighthoods are earned and so do not pass on to the next generation, with the exception of baronetcies.
Times, Sunday Times
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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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At the age of 69, Scotland's most famous son has finally received a knighthood.
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When his knighthood was announced in the birthday honours list in June, he paid tribute to the people who work for the charities he has supported.
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The Queen conferred a knighthood on him.
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Here's Kelvin MacKenzie (ex-Sun) doing his cheeky chappie act (which may net him a knighthood before he's 84).
Paul Dacre: a headline act making the news | profile
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He was awarded a knighthood for services to his country's cricket, but since Jamaicans do not accept such titles, is known instead as The Honourable Alan Rae.
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Actress Dorothy Tutin was also invested as a Dame Commander and actor Michael Caine received a knighthood.
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Tight new spending limits are set to be imposed on Britain's political parties to stop them going cap in hand to donors angling for peerages, knighthoods and other favours.
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Tzu-kung asked, What is it that we call knighthood?
The Sayings Of Confucius
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Instead he can continue to dine out on this one, but if England as expected are well off the pace by 2007, all his sainthoods and knighthoods are not going to make him nearly so popular or commercially appealing for the rest of his working days.
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Knighthood was an ideal in medieval Europe.
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At the peak of his fame Issigonis was given a knighthood.
The Independent - Frontpage RSS Feed
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We concede that were he able to pull off this feat, an earldom, as opposed to a mere honorary knighthood, would be a more appropriate reward.
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His knighthood is the latest of dozens of awards and honours conferred on him.
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Tristram, Sir Launcelot is called peerless of courtesy and of knighthood; and for his sake, said Sir Tristram, I will not with my good will fight no more with you, for the great love I have to Sir
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 full flowering of the ideals of knighthood and chivalry is found in poetry in the high Middle Ages.
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Yes, knighthood is absurd: and chivalry an idiotic superstition: and Sir Walter Manny was a zany: and Nelson, with his flaming stars and cordons, splendent upon a day of battle, was a madman: and
Roundabout Papers
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The job has lost its way and we have become demoralised, divided and demotivated due to the political meddlings of the Government, aided by the self serving and knee jerking senior officers looking to advance themselves or get themselves a knighthood.
Through The Looking Glass « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG
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Bafflingly, a knighthood still awaits, but this present accolade will surely not be the last that comes the way of a musician of unswerving integrity and principle.
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It is not necessary to have a knighthood to get an invitation but clearly it helps.
Times, Sunday Times
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Then shall he, said Sir Launcelot, receive the high order of knighthood as tomorn at the reverence of the high feast.
Chronicle and Romance (The Harvard Classics Series)
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His services to the state were recognized with the award of a knighthood.
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but at any rate he got a knighthood for it
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He has been honoured with a knighthood for his scientific work.
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Not in some political church service, but by dishing out instant knighthoods and medals on the battlefield in Afghanistan.
The Sun
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Offered a knighthood, Barrie mysteriously turned it down, only to accept a baronetcy later.
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He was on personal terms with every viceroy and vicereine and their staffs in the period between the 1890s and 1930s, and was awarded an Indian knighthood in 1929.
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The "caitiff" in these chronicles of when knighthood was in flower is invariably hanged from "the highest battlement" -- the second highest would not do at all; or else he is thrown into "the deepest dungeon of the castle" -- the second deepest dungeon was never known to be used on these occasions.
Ponkapog Papers.
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The "caitiff" in these chronicles of when knighthood was in flower is invariably hanged from
Ponkapog Papers
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Tight new spending limits are set to be imposed on Britain's political parties to stop them going cap in hand to donors angling for peerages, knighthoods and other favours.
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They became good friends and both went on to receive knighthoods.
The Sun
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These services had the name of _magnum servitium_, or grand sergeanty, as being attached to the person of the king, and involve the honour of knighthood in all cases; no person under the rank of a knight, nor a minor or female tenant, being allowed to perform them.
Coronation Anecdotes