tourney
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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
Coming into Saturday’s tourney game against Holy Cross, Clark, a fourth-year senior at Iowa, was averaging 5.2 makes and 13.8 attempts from deep.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 23, 2024
“I see myself getting selected as Pac-12 tourney MVP.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 22, 2024
"M'lord, there's nothing, it's the tourney, there's no help for it, oh . . ." Tyrion Lannister pulled a coin from his purse and flicked it up over his head, caught it, tossed it again.
From "A Game of Thrones" by George R.R. Martin
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"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
Rout says she likes the DGT 3000 and DGT 2010 clock models, which are easy to configure and work pleasantly in any context—nothing too ornate like the clocks you see at pro speed chess tourneys.
From Slate ● Feb. 24, 2021
He was a solitary man who seldom left his own lands, but for wars and tourneys.
From "A Game of Thrones" by George R.R. Martin
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And the devise of a castle of cloth of gold, set with pomegranates about the battlements, with shields of knights hanging therefrom; and six knights in rich harness tourneyed.
From Memoirs of the Court of Queen Elizabeth by Lucy Aikin
His rede the heroes followed / and tourneyed in full stately way.
From The Nibelungenlied Translated into Rhymed English Verse in the Metre of the Original by George Henry Needler
Glorious has the tourney been Where for me has fought the Queen; But a disgrace for me it were If I tourneyed not for her.
From Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres by Henry Adams
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
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
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
The Lord James Douglas, second son of the Gross One, had won the single tourneying by unhorsing all his opponents without even breaking a lance.
From The Black Douglas by Frank Richards
How Sir Tristram and his fellowship jousted, and of the noble feats that they did in that tourneying.
From Le Mort d'Arthur: Volume 2 by Sir Thomas Malory
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
And if *so fall* the chiefetain be take *should happen* On either side, or elles slay his make*, *equal, match No longer then the tourneying shall last.
From The Canterbury Tales, and Other Poems by D. Laing Purves
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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