"Knight" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... Black Prince. The scene is laid for the most part in the sunny land of Spain, during the reign of Pedro the Cruel—the ally in war of the Black Prince. The well-told story records the adventures of two young English knight-errants, twin brothers, whose family motto gives the title to the book. The Spanish maid, the heroine of the romance, is a delightful characterization, and the love story, with its surprising yet logical ...
— Philip Winwood • Robert Neilson Stephens
... the overwhelming throng of their followers who had been long brutalized on the other side of the channel. In this connection the proud, revengeful and chivalrous natives were had at a sad disadvantage; for then, as to-day, they were characterized by a spirit of knight-errantry, which disdained to take ...
— Ridgeway - An Historical Romance of the Fenian Invasion of Canada • Scian Dubh
... style, affect my pen: For why? I wright of fighting men; The bloody storye of a fight Betwixt a Bayliffe and a Knight," &c. ...
— Old English Plays, Vol. I - A Collection of Old English Plays • Various
... uncomfortable pass, when Karlsefin's eye chanced to fall on the end of a piece of bright scarlet cloth with which Gudrid had smilingly ornamented his neck before he set out on this expedition,—just as a young wife might, in chivalrous ages, have tied a scarf to her knight's arm before sending him off ...
— The Norsemen in the West • R.M. Ballantyne
... Utopian reality; that but for them the whole fabric of these fair appearances would crumble and tarnish, shrink and shrivel, until at last, back I should be amidst the grime and disorders of the life of earth. Tell me about these Samurai, who remind me of Plato's guardians, who look like Knight Templars, who bear a name that recalls the swordsmen of Japan. What are they? Are they an hereditary cast, a specially educated order, an elected class? For, certainly, this world turns upon them as a door ...
— First and Last Things • H. G. Wells
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