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1  "Thou dost not ask thy life, Waldemar," said the King.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XL
2  "And to good purpose, honest Wamba," replied the King.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XL
3  King Richard was absent a prisoner, and in the power of the perfidious and cruel Duke of Austria.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER VII
4  Pardon me, noble Prince," said Locksley; "but I have vowed, that if ever I take service, it should be with your royal brother King Richard.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XIII
5  For his own part," he said, "and in the land where he was bred, men would as soon take for their mark King Arthur's round-table, which held sixty knights around it.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XIII
6  I say besides, for I saw it, that King Richard himself, and five of his knights, held a tournament after the taking of St John-de-Acre, as challengers against all comers.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER V
7  The envoy of Tosti," he said, "moved up the hall, undismayed by the frowning countenances of all around him, until he made his obeisance before the throne of King Harold.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXI
8  Such were the words which burst from the train, expectants all of them of similar grants at the expense of King Richard's followers and favourites, if indeed they had not as yet received such.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XIII
9  Speak no more of it, brother," said the King; "after having stood so many cuffs from Paynims and misbelievers, I were void of reason to quarrel with the buffet of a clerk so holy as he of Copmanhurst.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XL
10  "Saxon also, at least by the mother's side," continued Cedric, who listened with the utmost eagerness, and forgot, in part at least, his hatred to the Normans, in the common triumph of the King of England and his islanders.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER V
11  In the meantime, he was strengthening his own faction in the kingdom, of which he proposed to dispute the succession, in case of the King's death, with the legitimate heir, Arthur Duke of Brittany, son of Geoffrey Plantagenet, the elder brother of John.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER VII
12  It may be here remarked, that the knights of these two orders were accounted hostile to King Richard, having adopted the side of Philip of France in the long train of disputes which took place in Palestine betwixt that monarch and the lion-hearted King of England.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER VII
13  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
14  Conrade read the letter, which was in these words: "Aymer, by divine grace, Prior of the Cistertian house of Saint Mary's of Jorvaulx, to Sir Brian de Bois-Guilbert, a Knight of the holy Order of the Temple, wisheth health, with the bounties of King Bacchus and of my Lady Venus."
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXXV
15  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
16  At another time the Prince would have treated this deed of violence as a good jest; but now, that it interfered with and impeded his own plans, he exclaimed against the perpetrators, and spoke of the broken laws, and the infringement of public order and of private property, in a tone which might have become King Alfred.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXXIV
17  The return of King Richard he spoke of as an event altogether beyond the reach of probability; yet, when he observed, from the doubtful looks and uncertain answers which he received, that this was the apprehension by which the minds of his accomplices were most haunted, he boldly treated that event, should it really take place, as one which ought not to alter their political calculations.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XV
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