How To Use palfrey In A Sentence
- She had been even prettier than he had thought her yesterday, on her silver-roan, long-tailed 'palfrey'; and it seemed to him, self-critical in the brumous October gloaming and the outskirts of London, that only his boots had shone throughout their two-hour companionship. The Forsyte Saga - Complete
- But Gloucester's party, knowing nothing of his halt, had advanced into the wooded park; and Bruce rode down to the right in his armor, and with a gold coronal on his basnet, but mounted on a mere palfrey. The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 07
- According to the dictionary that comes with Mac OS X 10.5, a "palfrey" is "a docile horse used for ordinary riding. It's called a "vacation."
- He found, at this place of rendezvous, the men and horses appointed to compose the retinue, leading two sumpter mules already loaded with baggage, and holding three palfreys for the two Countesses and a faithful waiting woman, with a stately war horse for himself, whose steel plated saddle glanced in the pale moonlight. Quentin Durward
- Palfrey also added, in an enigmatic aside, as a further inducement, that if anyone in the hotel had a dog that needed attention -- "And the key to a dog's nature is that they require constant attention" -- he would provide it: would walk the dog, feed it, primp it, deflea it, whatever. Beard
- As to your comment about horses, there were all different sizes - knights and kings typically rode the massive destriers, but their pages and attendants frequently rode the smaller palfreys.
- Palfrey Junior is a state school, with no religious affiliation. But the fact that 98% of its pupils are Muslim affects the ethos.
- But the King, in robes of purple and black, came to assist her from her palfrey before the beautiful entry of the Abbey Church, and led her up the nave to the desks prepared around what was then termed 'a herce, 'but which would now be called a catafalque, an erection supposed to contain the body, and adorned with the lozenges of the arms of Scotland and Beaufort, and of the Stewart, in honour of the Black Knight of Lorn. Two Penniless Princesses
- When Queen Elizabeth came in sight, glittering with jewels and mounted on a brightly caparisoned palfrey, Will staggered to his feet and pushed the shutters open wider. Secrets of the Tudor Court
- Palfrey and Hedge read Parker's Latin epitaph on Chev, amazed at the bad Latinity. Julia Ward Howe, 1819-1910