To the Right Honourable Laurence, Lord Hyde, Earl of Rochester, one of his Majesty's most Honourable Privy Council, Lord High Treasurer of England, and Knight of the Noble Order of the Garter.

Thought of the garter she had lost flashed into her mind.

Then he got up, went over and lifted the garter from where it had fallen and replaced it in his pocket.

He was fingering the garter in his pocket and looking toward the river when Carolyn June appeared on the ridge as she returned alone to the ranch.

Then he remembered her sympathy for Old Blue, her apology later for the harsh wordsanyhow he knew or felt in his heart they were trueand suddenly he seemed to see the pink satin garter he still carried in his pocket.

With a laugh he reached into his pocket and drew out the pink satin garter.

Before reaching the barn the Ramblin' Kid dropped the garter again into his pocket.

It had flashed to her mind that if he had the garter he would not lie about it.

Someway, she did not wish thatshe wanted him to keep it, but she did not want him to know that she wanted her garter to be carried by him!

he repeated bitterly, then with a queer smile in which was a world of tenderness he pulled the pink satin elastic garter he had picked up at the circular corral, from his pocket and looked at it long and wistfully.

In the worship of whom is founded the noble order of the Garter, and also a noble college in the castle of Windsor by kings of England, in which college is the heart of St. George, which Sigismund, the emperor of Almayne, brought and gave for a great and a precious relic to King Harry the Fifth.

In the year 1763 he was made Master of the Staghounds; and in 1765, he was sent to the Tower, and tried before the House of Peers, for killing his relation and neighbour, Mr Chaworth, in a duel fought at the Star and Garter Tavern, in Pall-mall.

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All our tilts and tournaments, orders of the garter, golden fleece, &c.Nobilitas sub amore jacetowe their beginnings to love, and many of our histories.

"Immemorial tradition has asserted that King Arthur, his queen Guenever, his court of lords and ladies, and his hounds were enchanted in some cave of the crags, or in a hall below the castle of Sewingshields, and would continue entranced there until someone should first blow a bugle-horn that lay on a table near the entrance of the hall, and then with the 'sword of the stone' (was this Excalibur?) cut a garter, also placed there beside it.

On the floor beyond the fire lay the faithful and deep-toned pack of thirty couple of hounds; and on a table before it the spell-dissolving horn, sword, and garter.

He cut the garter; and as the sword was being slowly sheathed the spell assumed its ancient power, and they all gradually sank to rest; but not before the monarch had lifted up his eyes and hands, and exclaimed "O woe betide that evil day On which this witless wight was born, Who drew the sword, the garter cut.

He cut the garter; and as the sword was being slowly sheathed the spell assumed its ancient power, and they all gradually sank to rest; but not before the monarch had lifted up his eyes and hands, and exclaimed "O woe betide that evil day On which this witless wight was born, Who drew the sword, the garter cut.

She took him into favor, and made him both Chancellor and knight of the Garter (died 1591).

Knights of the Garter no longer displayed the Blue Ribbon in Parliament.

Wound about her neck was a huge, glittering, cotton-stuffed cobra, and her bracelets were in the form of tiny garter snakes.

It is entered by a detached archway, on which were formerly sculptured the four orders borne by James V., the Thistle, Garter, Holy Ghost, and Golden Fleece; but these are now nearly effaced.

The Cairo garter murders.

The arms of Richard Weston, Earl of Portland, are carved in the panels of the chimney-piece in the drawing-room, with the supporters, and collar of the Garter, and implements of war.

But what does a free Englishman care for the Court comedy of St. James, so long as it does not trouble him, and so long as no one interferes when he plays comedy in like manner in his own house, making his lackeys kneel before him, or plays with the garter of a pretty cook-maid?