a knightly code of honor
he displayed knightly courage
she was dressed in a knightly costume
the knightly order of the Round Table
The boy looked him up and down dubiously. " Are you certain? You don't look very knightly" .
The latter two created peace, which removed the challenge of knightly warfare.
It is you who must wake it to noble deeds. You must be worthy of knightly worship.
Quite the opposite, they went on their quests because of their own choice, most often driven by the opportunity to display knightly virtues.
" And forty more—twenty knights with as many squires. If I arrive without a knightly tail, the Tyrells will think me of small account" .
Who wrote the novel Don Quixote, about a 50-year old man travelling Spain in search of knightly adventures in rusty armour and a cardboard helmet?
Villain originally meant a peasant farmer, but in a twist of aristocratic snobbery came to mean someone not bound by the knightly code of chivalry and, therefore, a bad person.
Both Vespasia's family and the gens Flavia were equestrian families, the second highest class within Roman society, being equivalent to the gentry or knightly class in later times but below the patrician class, the Roman aristocracy.
To come into the warm enclosed place after the pantheistic animal feeling without, was to reassume some absurd and impressive knightly name, as thunderous as spurred boots in war, as football cleats on the cement of a locker-room floor.
His talk, however, was not particularly knightly; it was light and easy and friendly; it took a practical turn, and he asked a number of questions about herself—what were her tastes—if she liked this and that—what were her habits.
a knightly code of honor
he displayed knightly courage
she was dressed in a knightly costume
the knightly order of the Round Table
The boy looked him up and down dubiously. " Are you certain? You don't look very knightly" .
The latter two created peace, which removed the challenge of knightly warfare.
It is you who must wake it to noble deeds. You must be worthy of knightly worship.
Quite the opposite, they went on their quests because of their own choice, most often driven by the opportunity to display knightly virtues.
" And forty more—twenty knights with as many squires. If I arrive without a knightly tail, the Tyrells will think me of small account" .
Who wrote the novel Don Quixote, about a 50-year old man travelling Spain in search of knightly adventures in rusty armour and a cardboard helmet?
Villain originally meant a peasant farmer, but in a twist of aristocratic snobbery came to mean someone not bound by the knightly code of chivalry and, therefore, a bad person.
Both Vespasia's family and the gens Flavia were equestrian families, the second highest class within Roman society, being equivalent to the gentry or knightly class in later times but below the patrician class, the Roman aristocracy.
To come into the warm enclosed place after the pantheistic animal feeling without, was to reassume some absurd and impressive knightly name, as thunderous as spurred boots in war, as football cleats on the cement of a locker-room floor.
His talk, however, was not particularly knightly; it was light and easy and friendly; it took a practical turn, and he asked a number of questions about herself—what were her tastes—if she liked this and that—what were her habits.
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