Ivanhoe. By the author of 'Waverley'.

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Strana 137 - sword and buckler, and follow my young master to the death, without hiding either my face or my CHAPTER XI. 1 Outlaw. Stand, sir, and throw us that you have about you ; If not, we'll make you sit, and rifle you. Speed. Sir, we are undone ! these are the villains
Strana 104 - this the challenger with fierce defy, His trumpet sounds ; the challenged makes reply: With clangour rings the field, resounds the vaulted sky; Their visors closed, their lances in the rest, Or at the helmet pointed or the crest, They vanish from the barrier, speed the race, And spurring see decrease the middle space.
Strana 112 - passed through the lists he gracefully saluted the Prince and the ladies by lowering his lance. The dexterity with which he managed his steed, and something of youthful grace which he displayed in his manner, won him the favour of the multitude, which some of the lower classes expressed by
Strana 166 - air of wind, which had just arisen, and shot so successfully that his arrow alighted in the very centre of the target. " A Hubert! a Hubert!" shouted the populace, more interested in a known person than in a stranger. " In the clout !—in the clout !—a Hubert for ever
Strana 113 - fresh one of great strength and spirit. He chose a new and a tough spear, lest the wood of the formermight have been strained in the previous encounters he had sustained. Lastly, he laid aside his shield, which had received some little damage, and received another from his squires. His first had only borne the
Strana 33 - An outrider that loved venerie ; A manly man, to be an Abbot able, Full many a daintie horse had he in stable : And whan he rode, men might his bridle hear Gingeling in a whistling wind as clear, And eke as loud, as doth the chapell
Strana 26 - The sun was setting upon one of the rich grassy glade of that forest, which we have mentioned in the beginning" of the chapter. Hundreds of broad short-stemmed oaks, which had witnessed perhaps the stately march of the; Roman soldiery, flung their broad gnarled arms over a thick carpet of the most delicious
Strana 194 - It seems to me, reverend father," said the knight, " that the small morsels which you eat, together with this holy, but somewhat thin beverage, have thriven with you marvellously. You appear a man more fit to win the ram at a wrestling match, or the ring at a bout
Strana 149 - and horse declared forfeited. The combat was to cease as soon as Prince John should throw down his leading-staff, or truncheon ; 13 VOL. i. another precaution usually taken to prevent the unnecessary effusion of blood by the too long endurance of a sport so desperate. Any knight breaking the rules of the tournament, or
Strana 34 - mule, loaded probably with his superior's baggage ; and two monks of his own order, of inferior station, rode together in the rear, laughing and conversing with each other, without taking much notice of the other members of the cavalcade. The companion of the church dignitary, was a man past forty, thin, strong, tall, and muscular ; an athletic

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