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
However, this tourney attracts lords and knights from great houses throughout Westeros, including a couple whose families figure prominently in “Game of Thrones.”
From Salon ● Jan. 17, 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
"Here to fight in the Hand's tourney, my lord?" a guardsman called out to him.
From "A Game of Thrones" by George R.R. Martin
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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
After missing two straight tourneys, Matta announced in June 2017 that he was stepping down, citing his health.
From Washington Times ● Apr. 3, 2022
"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
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
Fabulous eaters arrived from everywhere to take part in the irrational tourneys of capacity and resistance that were organized in the house of Petra Cotes.
From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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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
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
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
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
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
Indeed, as we have seen, he had the rudiments of the art in him before setting out from the tourneying field at Glenlochar on his way to holy orders.
From The Black Douglas by Frank Richards
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
Earl Douglas was in his gayest humour on this second day of the great tourneying.
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
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Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
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