404 examples of knighthood in sentences

It was from this latter date that the Spanish Moors began to assume that special character in language, manners, and chivalric enthusiasm which is represented in the present ballads; the spirit of Christian knighthood is here seen blended with Arabian passion, impetuosity, and impulsiveness, and the Spanish language has supplanted, even among Mahometan poets, the oriental idiom.

Of course, being now by all the laws of knighthood captive to a lady's request, I shall only be at liberty on my parole until Lord Byron is settled at Pisa.

Years elapsed even before the world suspected the foul blot upon Tyrell's knighthood, and he enjoyed the favor both of Richard and of his successor; but at last the truth came out.

It displayed, in a green vesture not unlike his own, but with a gold ribbon and emerald symbol like the cross of an European knighthood over the right shoulder, a spare soldierly form, with the most striking countenance I have ever seen; one which, once seen, none could forget.

Some latent spirit of true knighthood had risen in his breast, had quenched all the coward in his nature, and impelled him, in that one moment that called for sacrifice and courage, to a deed as daring and heroic as any that the knights of old were ever prompted to perform.

Now, by my knighthood and the sign I wear, I speak the truth, Sir Torm!With my last breath I pray you grant her pardon, for my sake, Who die, to save you, of wounds meant for you.

One day He touched them tenderly, and said, "God's faith, I would give all but knighthood to efface Those hellish scars that mar your peerless cheek.

I fear me, if I stay Within the circle of her tempting charm, I shall, through some wild impulse, wantonly Fling my unsullied knighthood to the winds, As now I flung the plume from out my helm.

He hears at last the stirring words that move His soul as it has never yet been moved; Words that have haunted his imagining For days and nights, making his young heart yearn With restless longing for this present hour; Words that presage the glory of his life, The consecrated purpose of his youth In its fulfilment and accomplishment; The holy, sacred, solemn, early vow Of future knighthood for the noble lad.

I should die If I could not exalt my father's name In valiant deeds of knighthood and of war.

At the sun's rise He was to leave his home, to take his way To the brave knight Sir Kathanal, to whom Sir Noël, dying, had bade Agathar Send the young Christalan, in time, to learn The code of chivalry and knighthood.

" "Mother mine, Nothing will be too hard for me, I know, With knighthood at the end.

His intense And solemn longing for the watch at night, His ardent joy in knighthood, won at last, She shared before she saw him, with that sense Of subtle sympathy a mother, only, knows.

my son," she answered him, "Knighthood is in the spirit and the soul; The deeds that show the knighthood to the world Are but the chance and circumstance of fate;

my son," she answered him, "Knighthood is in the spirit and the soul; The deeds that show the knighthood to the world Are but the chance and circumstance of fate;

And no knight could be truer than you proved Yourself in self-forgetting, nor more brave Than in foregoing knighthood for a knight.

He was a king, and answered him as free From fear or shyness as I answer you, Told him my thirst for knighthood and for fame, To which he listened with that strange grim smile, So like a sunbeam in a rocky place Then, straightway, as I watched him, in his eyes There came the look that made me want to kneel, Remembering he was a king indeed.

The prince caused Nicolo to be brought into his presence, and bestowed high commendations for the skill he had exerted in saving the fleet, and for the great valour he had displayed in the taking of many towns, where indeed there was no great difficulty or opposition; in reward for which he bestowed upon him the honour of knighthood, and distributed rich and liberal presents among his followers.

Her fancy is to one of the biggest of the Guard, but knighthood makes her draw in in a weaker bow.

"Think you, then, it is for your knighthood that we do keep you?" said the prince: "nay, by St. George; fix you your own ransom, and you shall be released."

Unless order were restored, all knighthood and lordship might be destroyed in Christendom."

All the knighthood of France arose for the defence of a Christian king.

It may be that thou art abashed and grieved at what hath befallen thee in thy first essay of knighthood, and that, to retrieve thine honor, thou wilt collect a powerful army against me.

The boy received the order of knighthood on the field of battle, and became afterwards a marshal of France.

While no definite articles were presented according to modern forms, an accusation was made by the Commons and a judgment rendered by the Lords, condemning both to fine, imprisonment, and degradation from the honor of knighthood."

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