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1  Neither duty nor infirmity could keep youth or age from such exhibitions.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER VII
2  His stature was tall, and his gait, undepressed by age and toil, was erect and stately.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXXV
3  But the gentleness and candour of Rebecca's nature imputed no fault to Ivanhoe for sharing in the universal prejudices of his age and religion.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXVIII
4  The tapestry hung down from the walls in many places, and in others was tarnished and faded under the effects of the sun, or tattered and decayed by age.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXIII
5  Meanwhile the travellers continued to press on their journey with a dispatch which argued the extremity of the Jew's fears, since persons at his age are seldom fond of rapid motion.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER VI
6  The Grand Master was a man advanced in age, as was testified by his long grey beard, and the shaggy grey eyebrows overhanging eyes, of which, however, years had been unable to quench the fire.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXXV
7  In fact, although the general tournament, in which all knights fought at once, was more dangerous than single encounters, they were, nevertheless, more frequented and practised by the chivalry of the age.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XII
8  The hag raised her head as Rebecca entered, and scowled at the fair Jewess with the malignant envy with which old age and ugliness, when united with evil conditions, are apt to look upon youth and beauty.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXIV
9  He looked anxiously to Athelstane, who had learned the accomplishments of the age, as if desiring that he should make some personal effort to recover the victory which was passing into the hands of the Templar and his associates.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER VIII
10  The walls were covered with embroidered hangings, on which different-coloured silks, interwoven with gold and silver threads, had been employed with all the art of which the age was capable, to represent the sports of hunting and hawking.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER VI
11  The assembled clergy admitted the validity of the plea, and the notoriety of the circumstances upon which it was founded; giving thus an indubitable and most remarkable testimony to the existence of that disgraceful license by which that age was stained.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXIII
12  The beautiful Rebecca had been heedfully brought up in all the knowledge proper to her nation, which her apt and powerful mind had retained, arranged, and enlarged, in the course of a progress beyond her years, her sex, and even the age in which she lived.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXVIII
13  No vair or ermine decked this garment; but in respect of his age, the Grand Master, as permitted by the rules, wore his doublet lined and trimmed with the softest lambskin, dressed with the wool outwards, which was the nearest approach he could regularly make to the use of fur, then the greatest luxury of dress.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXXV
14  Thus ended the memorable field of Ashby-de-la-Zouche, one of the most gallantly contested tournaments of that age; for although only four knights, including one who was smothered by the heat of his armour, had died upon the field, yet upwards of thirty were desperately wounded, four or five of whom never recovered.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XII
15  There were also some who dropped their veils over their charms; but, as the Wardour Manuscript says these were fair ones of ten years standing, it may be supposed that, having had their full share of such vanities, they were willing to withdraw their claim, in order to give a fair chance to the rising beauties of the age.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER IX
16  Ivanhoe now descended the stairs more hastily and easily than his wound promised, and threw himself upon the jennet, eager to escape the importunity of the Prior, who stuck as closely to his side as his age and fatness would permit, now singing the praises of Malkin, now recommending caution to the Knight in managing her.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XL
17  Yet amid these accumulated distresses, the poor as well as the rich, the vulgar as well as the noble, in the event of a tournament, which was the grand spectacle of that age, felt as much interested as the half-starved citizen of Madrid, who has not a real left to buy provisions for his family, feels in the issue of a bull-feast.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER VII
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