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1  "The honour of a noble lady is in peril," said the Black Knight.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXI
2  The Black Knight whispered something into the ear of the vanquished.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXI
3  True, Holy Clerk," said the Black Knight, "true as if Saint Dunstan himself had said it.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXI
4  He assigned to the Black Knight a seat at his right hand, and to Cedric a place upon his left.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXII.
5  Cedric, although not greatly confident in Ulrica's message, omitted not to communicate her promise to the Black Knight and Locksley.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXI
6  But scarce was this done ere the portentous strength of the Black Knight forced his way inward in despite of De Bracy and his followers.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXI
7  Here Wamba and Gurth, with their allies the Black Knight and Locksley, and the jovial hermit, awaited with impatience an answer to their summons.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXV
8  I would," said the Black Knight, "there were some one among us who could obtain admission into the castle, and discover how the case stands with the besieged.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXV
9  Well aware of the importance of taking the foe by surprise, the Black Knight, closely followed by Cedric, threw himself upon the bridge, and reached the opposite side.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXI
10  "I must be clerk, then," said the Black Knight; and taking the letter from Locksley, he first read it over to himself, and then explained the meaning in Saxon to his confederates.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXV
11  A belfry rose above the porch on four small pillars, within which hung the green and weatherbeaten bell, the feeble sounds of which had been some time before heard by the Black Knight.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVI
12  If the person calling himself the Black Knight have indeed a claim to the honours of chivalry, he ought to know that he stands degraded by his present association, and has no right to ask reckoning at the hands of good men of noble blood.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXV
13  With that he bent his good bow, and sent a shaft right through the breast of one of the men-at-arms, who, under De Bracy's direction, was loosening a fragment from one of the battlements to precipitate on the heads of Cedric and the Black Knight.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXI
14  The Black Knight was not a little surprised to find that men, in a state so lawless, were nevertheless among themselves so regularly and equitably governed, and all that he observed added to his opinion of the justice and judgment of their leader.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXII.
15  The vaulted passage to which the postern gave entrance, and in which these two redoubted champions were now fighting hand to hand, rung with the furious blows which they dealt each other, De Bracy with his sword, the Black Knight with his ponderous axe.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXI
16  But the Black Knight either had no mistress to meditate upon, or, being as indifferent in love as he seemed to be in war, was not sufficiently occupied by passionate reflections upon her beauty and cruelty, to be able to parry the effects of fatigue and hunger, and suffer love to act as a substitute for the solid comforts of a bed and supper.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVI
17  The situation of Cedric and of the Black Knight was now truly dangerous, and would have been still more so, but for the constancy of the archers in the barbican, who ceased not to shower their arrows upon the battlements, distracting the attention of those by whom they were manned, and thus affording a respite to their two chiefs from the storm of missiles which must otherwise have overwhelmed them.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXI
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