Vietnam or Thailand ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
Updated: May 18, 2025
Such action would have pleased some people in the East, but the President knew that this quixotic knight errantry would not appeal to the country at large, particularly the West, still strongly grounded in the Washingtonian tradition of non-interference in European quarrels.
Here a man may take to the forest roads in the old spirit of errantry. How darkly the shadow of witchcraft falls upon the path; we might be in Lapland or Thessaly! What strange satyr voices the drums have of nights! I suppose it is the reading about such things long ago that gives me this sense of having been here before, of having come back to this country!
"Of that same tree which gave the box, Now rattling in the hand of FOX, Perhaps his coffin shall be made. He then rambles into prose, as was his custom, on a sort of knight- errantry after thoughts and images: "The lawn thou hast chosen for thy bridal shift thy shroud may be of the same piece. That flower thou hast bought to feed thy vanity from the same tree thy corpse may be decked.
"I knew it," said Lady Hildegarde; "I understand now what has always puzzled everyone who has had the care of you. You were born two hundred years too late; the ancient days of knight errantry and chivalry would have suited you better than these." "It is your fault, mother," he replied.
Nigel clasped his captive's hand to show his admiration and esteem, but Knolles shook his head. "Things are not ordered thus, save in the tales of the minstrels," said he. "I have no wish that your people at Evran should know our numbers or our plans. I am not in this land for knight errantry, but I am here to make head against the King's enemies. Has no one aught else to say?"
"Señora doncella," replied Preciosa, "count upon your fortune as if it were already told, and provide yourself with another; or else sew no more gussets until I come again on Friday, when I will tell you more fortunes and adventures than you could read in any book of knight errantry."
One hundred and ninety-eight fortified towns were surrendered, making, with other places of greater or less importance, a total estimated by some writers as high as four hundred. The principal gainer was the Duke of Savoy, who, after so many years of knight- errantry, had regained his duchy, and found himself the brother-in-law of his ancient enemy.
President Olivier might be called a visionary or a nuisance; but even his enemies admitted that he was magnanimous to the point of knight errantry. Almost every other prisoner he had ever captured had been set free or even loaded with benefits. Men who had really wronged him came away touched by his simplicity and sweetness.
"D n the expense," rejoined my jovial ally; "why, the hot little epicurean Wagtail, and Gelid, cold and frozen as he is, have both taken a fancy to me and no wonder, knowing my pleasant qualities as they do ahem; so, for their sakes, I volunteer on this piece of knight errantry as much as'
"Then forgive me," she pleaded, and there were tears in her eyes, "and be careful of yourself, my dear boy, in this dismal expedition. Take plenty of furs, and beware of the cannibals." She won a smile from him as he bent over her sofa to kiss her good-by, but she reserved further comments upon his errantry for Bob. "Quixotic nonsense!" she declared.
Word Of The Day
Others Looking