How To Use Man-at-arms In A Sentence
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Thus early, after a few questions and some scrutiny, she had sent her in charge of a gentleman-at-arms and a maid of the Duke's Daughter to her father's lodging, with orders to change her robe, to return to the palace in good time before noon, and to bring her father to a safe place where he could watch the pleasures of the people.
The Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Gilbert Parker
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They were all the rage in the scifi stories I was raised with and nothing turns me off more than to know that some intrepid soul is going on a Hero's Journey with and elf, a wizard and a swarthy man-at-arms by his side.
I'm not sure how I feel about this
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His widow, unable to give employment to Iñigo, introduced him to her relative the Duke of Nájera, who was the Viceroy of Navarre, and Iñigo settled as his gentleman-at-arms.
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A woman comes running out of the house, a man-at-arms behind her.
The Red Queen
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And he hewed right and left on whatsoever was before him, so that what fell not, gave back, and for a moment of time he cleared the porch; but in that nick of time his axe brake on the basnet of a huge man-at-arms, and they all thrust them on him together and drave him back into the hall, and came bundling after him in a heap.
Child Christopher and Goldilind the Fair
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Douglas yonder, as well as in other places through the vale, and that is but a woful sight for a true Scotchman — even my own poor house has not escaped the dignity of a garrison of a man-at-arms, besides two or three archer knaves, and one or two slips of mischievous boys called pages, and so forth, who will not let a man say, ‘this is my own,’ by his own fireside.
Castle Dangerous
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From the ante-chapel behind him came the cry of the faithful subjects who, as the gentleman-at-arms fell back from the doorway, had but just caught a glimpse of her
Michel and Angele — Complete
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The man-at-arms, trembling with fear, looks at me, and forgets his place so much as to speak to me directly: “For the love of God, what was that all about?”
The Red Queen
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In a word, he was transformed from the penman into the captain and man-at-arms.
Voltaire
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King Henry V's beautiful widow, Catherine, is determined to marry Owen Tudor, a Welsh gentleman-at-arms, but her life is overshadowed by the various powerful men close to the throne.
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“He was trained in weapons as every man of his station was, of course, but his purpose in the castle was not to be a man-at-arms.”
The World Above
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The man-at-arms stands, almost at attention, at a distance from me, torn between his duty to guard me and his own fear, and the two of us wait in the eerie half darkness, to see what—if anything—will happen next.
The Red Queen
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Kettricken seemed more at ease with the old man-at-arms than she had with his brother-in-law.
THE GOLDEN FOOL: BOOK TWO OF THE TAWNY MAN
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Isn't it to do with being a man-at-arms, with strapping on armour and sallying forth into the wildwood on your horse, your lady's token on your arm, to right wrongs and do great deeds?
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`And I know the scars of a man-at-arms when I see one, even if that pup didn't.
THE GOLDEN FOOL: BOOK TWO OF THE TAWNY MAN
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She was just a country girl, but she dressed as a man-at-arms, she had a banner embroidered with lilies and angels.
The Red Queen
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Eh, Red Sonya!" shouted a man-at-arms, waving his pike.
Science Fiction, Fantasy, Horror: Echoes Of Valor III - Karl Edward Wagner
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From the ante-chapel behind him came the cry of the faithful subjects who, as the gentleman-at-arms fell back from the doorway, had but just caught a glimpse of her Majesty -- "Long live
The Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Gilbert Parker
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Its Norman characteristic is found in the young _ecuyer_ or squire, of Chaucer, who aspires to equal his father in station and renown; while the English type of the man-at-arms (_l'homme d'armes_) is found in their attendant yeoman, the
English Literature, Considered as an Interpreter of English History Designed as a Manual of Instruction
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Aye," said old Diccon, "belike thou goest to some grand castle to live there, and be a page there and what not, and then, haply, a gentleman-at-arms in some great lord's pay.
Men of Iron
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Thus early, after a few questions and some scrutiny, she had sent her in charge of a gentleman-at-arms and a maid of the Duke's
Michel and Angele — Complete
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Endymion, who was not to be a knight, but a gentleman-at-arms in attendance on the Queen of the Tournament, mentioned that Prince
Endymion
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Rather like what a man-at-arms goes through in his training.
THE GOLDEN FOOL: BOOK TWO OF THE TAWNY MAN
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He was a gentleman-at-arms who attended Henry VIII at The Siege of Boulogne in 1544.
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Halvard, the elderly man-at-arms, shuffled around and cupped his hand to his mouth.
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