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1  Engines break down the fences of the battle.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXXI
2  Look on the field, and say how goes the battle.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXIX
3  Albert Malvoisin, give this gage of battle to Brian de Bois-Guilbert.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXXVIII
4  I have been a child of battle from my youth upward, high in my views, steady and inflexible in pursuing them.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXXIX
5  Men of their precarious course of life change readily from the banquet to the battle; and, to Richard, the exchange seemed but a succession of pleasure.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XLI
6  The power had been completely placed in the hands of the Norman nobility, by the event of the battle of Hastings, and it had been used, as our histories assure us, with no moderate hand.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER I
7  The astonishment of Ivanhoe was beyond bounds, when he saw his master besprinkled with blood, and six or seven dead bodies lying around in the little glade in which the battle had taken place.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XLI
8  Failing of which, we do pronounce to you, that we hold ye as robbers and traitors, and will wager our bodies against ye in battle, siege, or otherwise, and do our utmost to your annoyance and destruction.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXV
9  Nevertheless, send the tidings unto him, my father; for he hath favour among the strong men of his people, and as he was our companion in the house of bondage, he may find some one to do battle for my sake.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXXVIII
10  The champions thus encountering each other with the utmost fury, and with alternate success, the tide of battle seemed to flow now toward the southern, now toward the northern extremity of the lists, as the one or the other party prevailed.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XII
11  I will hie me to the city of York, where many warriors and strong men are assembled, and doubt not I will find among them some one who will do battle for thy daughter; for gold is their god, and for riches will they pawn their lives as well as their lands.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXXVIII
12  And the gage having been delivered to the noble Lord and Knight, Brian de Bois-Guilbert, of the Holy Order of the Temple of Zion, he was appointed to do this battle, in behalf of his Order and himself, as injured and impaired by the practices of the appellant.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXXVIII
13  He rode, not a mule, like his companion, but a strong hackney for the road, to save his gallant war-horse, which a squire led behind, fully accoutred for battle, with a chamfron or plaited head-piece upon his head, having a short spike projecting from the front.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER II
14  Meantime, the sun shone fierce and bright upon the polished arms of the knights of either side, who crowded the opposite extremities of the lists, and held eager conference together concerning the best mode of arranging their line of battle, and supporting the conflict.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XII
15  The fire was spreading rapidly through all parts of the castle, when Ulrica, who had first kindled it, appeared on a turret, in the guise of one of the ancient furies, yelling forth a war-song, such as was of yore raised on the field of battle by the scalds of the yet heathen Saxons.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXXI
16  He had been awakened from his brief slumber by the noise of the battle; and his attendant, who had, at his anxious desire, again placed herself at the window to watch and report to him the fate of the attack, was for some time prevented from observing either, by the increase of the smouldering and stifling vapour.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXXI
17  My father, if a strong man can be found to do battle for my cause with sword and spear, according to the custom of the Nazarenes, and that within the lists of Templestowe, on the third day from this time, peradventure our fathers' God will give him strength to defend the innocent, and her who hath none to help her.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXXVIII
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