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
The boy squire shines bright in the otherwise drab surrounds of the tourney campgrounds.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 16, 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
"Live steel is too dangerous. I will permit you tourney swords, with blunted edges."
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
"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
Viserys had told her stories of the tourneys he had witnessed in the Seven Kingdoms, but Dany had never seen a joust herself.
From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin
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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
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
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
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
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
Then was there great jousts and great tourneying, and many lords and ladies were at that feast, and Sir Tristram was most praised of all other.
From Le Mort d'Arthur: Volume 1 by Sir Thomas Malory
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
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
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
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