| Henry Hallam - 1818 - 670 pages
...with steel, and known only by their emblazoned shield, or by the favours of their mistresses, a still prouder bearing, the combatants rushed forward to...laws of tournaments to strike only upon the strong armour of the trunk, or, as it was called, between the four limbs, those impetuous conflicts often... | |
| Joseph Emerson Worcester - 1832 - 428 pages
...with steel, and known only by their emblazoned shields, or by the favors of their mistresses, a still prouder bearing, the combatants rushed forward to a strife without enmity, but not without danger. 19. " Victory at a tournament was little less glorious, and perhaps, at the moment, more exquisitely... | |
| Henry Hallam - 1846 - 582 pages
...with steel, and known only by their emblazoned shield, or by the favours of their mistresses, a still prouder bearing, the combatants rushed forward to...laws of tournaments to strike only upon the strong armour of the trunk, or, as it was called, between the four limbs, those impetuous conflicts often... | |
| Joseph Emerson Worcester - 1847 - 414 pages
...with steel, and known only by their emblazoned shields, or by the favors of their mistresses, a still prouder bearing, the combatants rushed forward to a strife without enmity, but not without danger. field ; since no battle could assemble such witnesses of valor. ' Honor to the sons of the brave !'... | |
| Joseph Emerson Worcester - 1849 - 428 pages
...with steel, and known only by their emblazoned shields, or by the favors of their mistresses, a still prouder bearing, the combatants rushed forward to a strife without enmity, but not without danger. 19. " Victory at a tournament was little less glorious, and perhaps, at the moment, more exquisitely... | |
| Henry Hallam - 1860 - 528 pages
...only of wood, though they were bound by the laws of tournaments to strike only upon the strong armour of the trunk, or, as it was called, between the four limbs, those impetnous conflicts often terminated in wounds and death. The church uttered her excommunications in... | |
| Peter Lund Simmonds - 1773 - 674 pages
...Covered with steel and known only by their emblazoned shields or by the favours of their mistresses, the combatants rushed forward to a strife without...only of wood, though they were bound by the laws of the tournament to strike only on the strong armour of the trunk, or, as it was termed, between the... | |
| Henry Hallam - 1861 - 500 pages
...with steel, and known only by their emblazoned shield or by the favors of their mistresses, a still prouder bearing, the combatants rushed forward to a strife without enmity, but not without danger. Thongh their weapons were pointless, and sometimes onlv of wood, though they were bound by the laws... | |
| Henry Hallam - 1871 - 136 pages
...with steel, and known only by their emblazoned shield, or by the favours of their mistresses, a still prouder bearing, the combatants rushed forward to...laws of tournaments to strike only upon the strong armour of the trunk, or, as it was called, between the four limbs, those impetuous -HlS LIBERALITY.... | |
| Henry Hallam - 1871 - 672 pages
...with steel, and known only by their emblazoned shield, or by the favours of their mistresses, a still prouder bearing, the combatants rushed forward to...laws of tournaments to strike only upon the strong armour of the trunk, or, as it was called, between the four limbs, those impetuous conflicts often... | |
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