templar

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I am a templar, taken Prisoner at Tebnin, whose exalted fortress, Just as the truce expired, we sought to climb, In order to push forward next to Sidon.

From Nathan the Wise; a dramatic poem in five acts by Taylor, William

Good; but it would be better to regard solitary, family, and templar devotion as distinctions in sort, rather than differences in degree.

From The Literary Remains of Samuel Taylor Coleridge by Coleridge, Henry Nelson

Here the templar tipped me a second wink, and, if I had not looked very grave upon him, I found he was disposed to be very familiar with me.

From Isaac Bickerstaff, physician and astrologer by Steele, Richard, Sir

For whoe'er heard before that Saladin Let go a templar; that a templar wished it, Hoped it, or for his ransom offered more Than taunts, his leathern sword-belt, or his dagger?

From Nathan the Wise; a dramatic poem in five acts by Taylor, William

No emulation, like that which tempted the individual graduate or templar to rival Surrey in addressing his mistress's eyebrow, or Sackville in stately rhyming on English history, acted on the writers of prose.

From A History of Elizabethan Literature by Saintsbury, George