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1  In some proud castle's high arch'd hall.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XIV
2  Prince John held his high festival in the Castle of Ashby.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XIV
3  Their escutcheons have long mouldered from the walls of their castles.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER VIII
4  He might have risen still higher, but for the premature death of the heroic Coeur-de-Lion, before the Castle of Chaluz, near Limoges.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XLIV
5  The mode of entering the great tower of Coningsburgh Castle is very peculiar, and partakes of the rude simplicity of the early times in which it was erected.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XLII
6  The access, as usual in castles of the period, lay through an arched barbican, or outwork, which was terminated and defended by a small turret at each corner.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXI
7  Our scene now returns to the exterior of the Castle, or Preceptory, of Templestowe, about the hour when the bloody die was to be cast for the life or death of Rebecca.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XLIII
8  By far the most numerous part streamed towards the town of Ashby, where many of the distinguished persons were lodged in the castle, and where others found accommodation in the town itself.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER IX
9  The Outlaw's opinion proved true; and the King, attended by Ivanhoe, Gurth, and Wamba, arrived, without any interruption, within view of the Castle of Coningsburgh, while the sun was yet in the horizon.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XLI
10  There was brave feasting in the Castle of York, to which Prince John had invited those nobles, prelates, and leaders, by whose assistance he hoped to carry through his ambitious projects upon his brother's throne.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXXIV
11  The nobles themselves, each fortified within his own castle, and playing the petty sovereign over his own dominions, were the leaders of bands scarce less lawless and oppressive than those of the avowed depredators.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER VII
12  At court, and in the castles of the great nobles, where the pomp and state of a court was emulated, Norman-French was the only language employed; in courts of law, the pleadings and judgments were delivered in the same tongue.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER I
13  The ladies, in particular, were not disposed to scan too nicely the morals of a man who was a professed admirer of their sex, and who possessed many means of dispelling the ennui which was too apt to intrude upon the halls and bowers of an ancient feudal castle.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER II
14  The description given by the author of the Saxon Chronicle of the cruelties exercised in the reign of King Stephen by the great barons and lords of castles, who were all Normans, affords a strong proof of the excesses of which they were capable when their passions were inflamed.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXIII
15  They grievously oppressed the poor people by building castles; and when they were built, they filled them with wicked men, or rather devils, who seized both men and women who they imagined had any money, threw them into prison, and put them to more cruel tortures than the martyrs ever endured.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXIII
16  It is a well-known story of King John, that he confined a wealthy Jew in one of the royal castles, and daily caused one of his teeth to be torn out, until, when the jaw of the unhappy Israelite was half disfurnished, he consented to pay a large sum, which it was the tyrant's object to extort from him.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER VI
17  No wonder that churls and yeomen wax so presumptuous as even to lay leaguer before castles, and that clowns and swineherds send defiances to nobles, since men-at-arms have turned sick men's nurses, and Free Companions are grown keepers of dying folk's curtains, when the castle is about to be assailed.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXVIII
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