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1  Fair and true he hit the Norman on the visor, where his lance's point kept hold of the bars.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER VIII
2  He was met by six or seven men-at-arms, who ran against him with their lances at full career.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XL
3  More and angrier words would have been exchanged, but the marshals, crossing their lances betwixt them, compelled them to separate.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER VIII
4  Both Knights broke their lances fairly, but Front-de-Boeuf, who lost a stirrup in the encounter, was adjudged to have the disadvantage.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER VIII
5  He was mounted on a gallant black horse, and as he passed through the lists he gracefully saluted the Prince and the ladies by lowering his lance.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER VIII
6  It were deep pity," said Conrade Mont-Fitchet, "to lose to the Order one of its best lances, when the Holy Community most requires the aid of its sons.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXXVI
7  The fifth knight alone maintained the honour of his party, and parted fairly with the Knight of St John, both splintering their lances without advantage on either side.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER VIII
8  These were calculated in some degree to abate the dangers of the day; a precaution the more necessary, as the conflict was to be maintained with sharp swords and pointed lances.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XII
9  The lances burst into shivers up to the very grasp, and it seemed at the moment that both knights had fallen, for the shock had made each horse recoil backwards upon its haunches.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER VIII
10  As yet the knights held their long lances upright, their bright points glancing to the sun, and the streamers with which they were decorated fluttering over the plumage of the helmets.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XII
11  A second squire held aloft his master's lance, from the extremity of which fluttered a small banderole, or streamer, bearing a cross of the same form with that embroidered upon his cloak.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER II
12  The mounted knights, whose lances had been almost all broken by the fury of the encounter, were now closely engaged with their swords, shouting their war-cries, and exchanging buffets, as if honour and life depended on the issue of the combat.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XII
13  If he did so with the reverse of his lance, the trial of skill was made with what were called the arms of courtesy, that is, with lances at whose extremity a piece of round flat board was fixed, so that no danger was encountered, save from the shock of the horses and riders.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER VIII
14  If he did so with the reverse of his lance, the trial of skill was made with what were called the arms of courtesy, that is, with lances at whose extremity a piece of round flat board was fixed, so that no danger was encountered, save from the shock of the horses and riders.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER VIII
15  The address of the riders recovered their steeds by use of the bridle and spur; and having glared on each other for an instant with eyes which seemed to flash fire through the bars of their visors, each made a demi-volte, and, retiring to the extremity of the lists, received a fresh lance from the attendants.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER VIII
16  On the other hand, that champion had, in the beginning of his career, directed the point of his lance towards Bois-Guilbert's shield, but, changing his aim almost in the moment of encounter, he addressed it to the helmet, a mark more difficult to hit, but which, if attained, rendered the shock more irresistible.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER VIII
17  With the eyes of an immense concourse of spectators fixed upon them, the five knights advanced up the platform upon which the tents of the challengers stood, and there separating themselves, each touched slightly, and with the reverse of his lance, the shield of the antagonist to whom he wished to oppose himself.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER VIII
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