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"I would wager my best greyhound to a scullion's cur that our English knights will lower their burgonets." "Nay, sir, an idle holiday show. What matters whose lance breaks, or whose destrier stumbles?" "Will you not, yourself, cousin Montagu you who are so peerless in the joust take part in the fray?"
'Heriot, I give you my word of honour, the very look of her 's eternal Summer. Kiomi rings thin she tinkles; it 's the difference between metal and flesh. 'Did she tinkle, as you call it, when that fellow Destrier, confound him! touched her? 'The little cat! Did you notice Mabel's blush? 'How could I help it? We've all had a dozen apiece.
would make gentle George amorous of a worse-featured face than high-nosed Isabel; 'strange to spell or rede, as I would wager my best destrier to a tailor's hobby, the damozel surely is." John to one of his Towton comrades, as, leaning against the wall, they overheard the sarcasms of Anthony, and the laugh of the courtiers, who glassed their faces and moods to his.
He mounteth on his destrier, all armed, and goeth amidst the land that was well-nigh void of people, for he himself had slain the greater part thereof, albeit he knew it not.
Sweeter than the dainties within his mouth, was the lady's kiss upon his lips. When supper was ended, Launfal rose from table, for his horse stood waiting without the pavilion. The destrier was newly saddled and bridled, and showed proudly in his rich gay trappings. So Launfal kissed, and bade farewell, and went his way. He rode back towards the city at a slow pace.
He mused a moment, and sent one of his knights to call to him three of the chiefs of the archers. They were soon at the side of his destrier. "See ye not, maladroits," said the Duke, "that your shafts and bolts fall harmless on those ozier walls? Shoot in the air; let the arrow fall perpendicular on those within fall as the vengeance of the saints falls direct from heaven!
Eliduc gave answer to the chamberlain that he would ride forthwith, since much he desired to meet so high a dame. He bade his squire to saddle his destrier, and rode to the palace, to have speech with the lady. Eliduc stood without the lady's chamber, and prayed the chamberlain to tell the dame that he had come, according to her wish.
Destrier, the young marquis, coming in to meet the procession from other haunts, linked his arm to his friend Witlington's, and said something in my hearing of old 'Duke Fitz, which provoked, I fancied, signs of amusement equivalent to tittering in a small ring of the select assembly. Lady Sampleman's carriage was called. 'Another victim, said a voice.
Such a horse, they say, is not to be found betwixt this and the King's stables at Windsor, for his sire was a Spanish destrier, and his dam an Arab mare of the very breed which Saladin, whose soul now reeks in Hell, kept for his own use, and even it has been said under the shelter of his own tent.
"By Saint Hubert, a proper horseman, and a destrier for an earl," said Raoul; "and my Lord Constable's liveries withal yet I know not the gallant." "But I do," said Gillian; "it is Randal de Lacy, the Constable's kinsman, and as good a man as ever came of the name!" "Oh! by Saint Hubert, I have heard of him men say he is a reveller, and a jangler, and a waster of his goods."
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