Knightly Sentence Examples

The Golden Fleece (La Toison d'Or) ranks historically and in distinction as one of the great knightly orders of Europe.

This was the ideal, but to give the reader a clear view of the actual features of knightly society in their contrast with that of our own day, it is necessary to bring out one or two very significant shadows.

The manners and sentiments of the 15th century are made to harmonize with the classical legends after the fashion of the Italian pre-Raphaelite painters, who equipped Jewish warriors with knightly lance and armour.

The expedition, however, did not take place, and was but a pretext for levying subsidies and for knightly entertainments.

The battle opened with a confused cavalry fight on the French right, in which individual feats of knightly gallantry were more noticeable than any attempt at combined action.

In the chapels of the various knightly orders the stalls are assigned to the members of the order, thus, in St.

No fault, in this respect, can assuredly be found with the legendary Rama, a very paragon of knightly honour and virtue, even as his consort Sita is the very model of a noble and faithful wife; and yet this cult has perhaps retained even more of the character of mere hero-worship than that of Krishna.

But the most important result of this first Norman invasion was to be found in the marvellous and rapid success of Robert Fitz-Hamon, earl of Gloucester, who, accompanied by a number of knightly adventurers, quickly overran South Wales, and erected a chain of castles stretching from the Wye to Milford Haven.

They were a knightly family when we first hear of them about 1250, though towards the end of the 14th century they seem to have been but simple men without the honours of knighthood, and not always using their prefix "von."

A knightly celibate, his stainless life, his ardour, caused him to be termed a Yankee Galahad; a pure and simple heart was laid bare to those who loved him in " My Psalm," " My Triumph " and " An Autograph."

In imitation of the English order of the Garter, he established the knightly order of the Star, and celebrated its festivals with great display.

There is nothing distinctively Turkish in the combination of crescent and star which appears on the Turkish national standard; the latter is shown by coins and inscriptions to have been an ancient Illyrian symbol, and is of course common in knightly and decorative orders.

The upper chamber (Standesherren) is composed of adult princes of the blood, heads of noble families from the rank of count (Graf) upwards, representatives of territories (Standesherrschaften), which possessed votes in the old German imperial diet or in the local diet; it has also members (not more than 6) nominated by the king, 8 members of knightly rank, 6 ecclesiastical dignitaries, a representative of the university of Tubingen, and of the technical high school of Stuttgart, 2 representatives of commerce and industry, 2 of agriculture, and i of handicrafts.

Thus in medieval French poetry vasselage is commonly used in the sense of "prowess in arms," or generally of any knightly qualities.

He is the type of the medieval knightly minstrel of the age of the Minnesang.

Come, let us worship Beauty with the knightly faith of old, O chivalry of Labor toiling for the Age of Gold!

In both versions his name and parentage are concealed, in the Lanzelet he is genuinely ignorant of both; here too his lack of all knightly accomplishments (not unnatural when we remember he has here been brought up entirely by women) and his inability to handle a steed are insisted upon.

Moreover, many of the noblest precepts of the knightly code were a legacy from earlier ages, and have survived the decay of knighthood just as they will survive all transitory human institutions, forming part of the eternal heritage of the race.

Some of the most beautiful women in the world are not big busted--Kate Hudson, Keira Knightly, Natalie Portman, and Michelle Pfieffer... there is an endless list.

She will also begin shooting the film The Best Time of Our Lives in late April, which co-stars Keira Knightly.

Bend it Like Beckham (2002) - Rhys-Meyers played the character Joe, opposite Parminder Nagra (Neela on T.V.'s E.R.) and Keira Knightly.

Page's Oscar Award nomination along with Keira Knightly, Isabelle Adjani and Keisha Castle-Hughes, puts her amongst the youngest actresses to recieve a nomination.

Located in North Wales along the coast, Knightly's Fun Fair began as an arcade and expanded into a full blown, entertainment complex with an amusement park.

Keira Knightly debuted her graduated bob at Paris Fashion Week 2010.

The fourth installment of Disney's popular series will not feature Orlando Bloom or Keira Knightly (Will Turner and Elizabeth Swan), but Johnny Depp will resume his role as Captain Jack Sparrow.

With the incredible popularity of Walt Disney's Pirates of the Caribbean movies, starring big names like Johnny Depp and Kiera Knightly, there has been a rise in demand for pirate birthday party ideas in San Diego by young and old alike.

His two wives, Alice Ufford and Alice Fitton - heir of Fitton's manor in Wiggenhall - were both daughters of knightly houses.

He was already distinguished for his knightly prowess, and for some years devoted himself to adventure.

In fact, the whole of the Lanzelet has much more the character of a fairy or folk-tale than that of a knightly romance.

Here Christian, bishop of Prussia, who had received from the Polish duke of Masovia a part of Kulmerland as a fief, had founded the knightly Order of Dobrzin, and was attempting with its aid to subdue the heathens of Prussia.

Besides the knightly Order founded by Christian, there was already another still farther east, which had served as Christian's model, the Knights of the Sword of Livonia.

He is the type of knightly virtue, the mirror of patriotic duty, the flower of all Christian grace.

As a boy, he showed an extraordinary quickness of apprehension, and, choosing a learned life instead of the knightly career natural to a youth of his birth, early became an adept in the art of dialectic, under which name philosophy, meaning at that time chiefly the logic of Aristotle transmitted through Latin channels, was the great subject of liberal study in the episcopal schools.

It was not, indeed, the first knightly Order to gird itself for the task.

However this may be, remnants of their primitive superhuman qualities cling to the Celtic heroes long after they have been transfigured, under the influence of Christianity and chivalry, into the heroes of the medieval Arthurian romance, types - for the most part - of the knightly virtues as these were conceived by the middle ages; while shadowy memories of early myths live on, strangely disguised, in certain of the episodes repeated uncritically by the medieval poets.

Gawain (Welwain, Welsh Gwalchmai), Arthur's nephew, who in medieval romance remains the type of knightly courage and chivalry, until his character is degraded in order to exalt that of Lancelot.

The mother, fearful lest her son should share his father's fate, flies to the woods, either alone with one attendant, or with a small body of faithful retainers, and there brings up her son in ignorance of his name, his parentage and all knightly accomplishments.

Attracted at first by Italy, dreaming of fair feats of prowess, he led the triumphal Marignano expedition, which gained him reputation as a knightly king and as the most powerful prince in Europe.

Albert, who was a man of great strength and considerable skill in feats of arms, delighted in tournaments and knightly exercises.

It first became famous about 1215 as the stronghold of the knightly Order of Alcantara.

With the possible exception of Horn, Tristan is by far the most accomplished hero in the whole range of knightly romance; a finished musician, linguist and chess-player, no one can rival him in more knightly arts, in horsemanship or fencing.

The knightly ages will always enjoy the glory of having formulated a code of honour which aimed at rendering the upper classes worthy of their exceptional privileges; yet we must judge chivalry not only by its formal code but also by its practical fruits.