tourney
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They will face De La Salle on Thursday at 4 p.m. at El Dorado in the tourney final.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 2, 2026
Near the start, when Dunk reluctantly accepts Egg as his squire, he set the terms of their relationship in a dark field outside the town where the tourney that births their legend takes place.
From Salon ● Feb. 23, 2026
Kang Ae-sim and Yang Dong-geun portray an elderly woman and her failson who enter the tourney to erase his mountainous debt.
From Salon ● Dec. 26, 2024
Birmingham-Southern, which lost the national title game in 2019, advanced in the double-elimination tourney and will play the loser between Salve Regina and Wisconsin-Whitewater on Sunday.
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 1, 2024
"My lady mother said it was not fitting, since the tourney is in my honor. Otherwise I would have been champion. Isn't that so, dog?"
From "A Clash of Kings" by George R.R. Martin
Open, college football tourneys, NFL openers, political town halls, and awards shows, then it really has nothing left to keep buyers around.
From Slate ● Sep. 7, 2024
"I believe in these guys. I really do," said Chris Beard, who led the Red Raiders in five Big 12 tourneys but will be there with Texas for the first time.
From Fox News ● Mar. 8, 2022
The report released in August was sparked by outrage at the disparities between amenities at the two tourneys, including weight rooms and other features.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 30, 2021
Even in tourneys where knights display unadulterated mounted skills by putting lances through rings and other challenges, there’s room for audience participation.
From Washington Post ● Jun. 24, 2021
I want to ride in tourneys, hawk and hunt, visit with my mother in Nor- vos, read some of those books my father sends me.
From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin
Then the general tourney began, and, in double file, and much increased in numbers, our company sallied forth, and, as it behoved them, tourneyed bravely.
From The Book of the Duke of True Lovers by Christin? de Pisan
Three days they tourneyed, but none could withstand Sir Guy's strong arm.
From Legends That Every Child Should Know; a Selection of the Great Legends of All Times for Young People by Hamilton Wright Mabie
The trumpets sounded joyously, and the heralds made proclamation, and the knights on noble battle horses, and according to their several ranks, tourneyed lustily.
From The Book of the Duke of True Lovers by Christin? de Pisan
In the days of Henry VIII. a chronicler tells of a jouster who "tourneyed in harneyse all of gilt from the head piece to the sabattons."
From Arts and Crafts in the Middle Ages A Description of Mediaeval Workmanship in Several of the Departments of Applied Art, Together with Some Account of Special Artisans in the Early Renaissance by Julia de Wolf Gibbs Addison
Thus they tourneyed together, one with an axe and the other with a sword, a long season, and no man to let them.
From Chronicle and Romance (The Harvard Classics Series) by Jean Froissart; Thomas Malory; Raphael Holinshed
When the Cid began to war upon the town, and sent parties against it twice and thrice a day, for the Cid was alway upon the alert, there was fighting and tourneying every day.
From Young Folks Treasury, Volume 2 (of 12) by Various
The latter part of this prolix autobiography is occupied by a detailed account of a long tourneying trip, which he contrived as a parallel to his Venus-journey, this time under the disguise of King Arthur.
From Studies in Medi?val Life and Literature by Edward Tompkins McLaughlin
Another summer passed in tourneying, and during another winter he tried to amuse himself by making poetry for his lady.
From Studies in Medi?val Life and Literature by Edward Tompkins McLaughlin
There is nothing but tourneying, love-making, and enchantment.
From A History of English Romanticism in the Nineteenth Century by Henry A. (Henry Augustin) Beers
How Sir Uwaine rode with the damosel of sixty year of age, and how he gat the prize at tourneying.
From Le Mort d'Arthur: Volume 1 by Sir Thomas Malory
Vocabulary lists containing tourney
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
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Tolkien Reading Day, List 11
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The Ruins of Gorlan
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