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1  Wine rosy bright the brimming goblets crown'd.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER IV
2  The banquet was crowned with the richest wines, both foreign and domestic.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XIV
3  Tell the dog," he said, "to send me, before sun-down, two thousand crowns.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XIII
4  His close-shaven crown, surrounded by a circle of stiff curled black hair, had something the appearance of a parish pinfold begirt by its high hedge.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XVI
5  Most of them consented to attend the proposed meeting at York, for the purpose of making general arrangements for placing the crown upon the head of Prince John.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XV
6  We shall then have your willing sanction, good Cedric," said Prince John, "to confer this fief upon a person whose dignity will not be diminished by holding land of the British crown.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XIV
7  Prince John replied not; but, spurring his horse, as if to give vent to his vexation, he made the animal bound forward to the gallery where Rowena was seated, with the crown still at her feet.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER IX
8  He returns to call to a fearful reckoning, those who, during his absence, have done aught that can be construed offence or encroachment upon either the laws of the land or the privileges of the crown.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XV
9  Nevertheless, it is your undoubted prerogative to confer on whom you please this crown, by the delivery of which to the lady of your choice, the election of to-morrow's Queen will be formal and complete.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER IX
10  He gave, accordingly, an order sealed with his signet, to a brother of his tribe at York, requiring him to pay to the bearer the sum of a thousand crowns, and to deliver certain merchandises specified in the note.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXXIII
11  The elected Queen of Love and Beauty was then to crown the knight whom the Prince should adjudge to have borne himself best in this second day, with a coronet composed of thin gold plate, cut into the shape of a laurel crown.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER VIII
12  Of this fickle temper he gave a memorable example in Ireland, when sent thither by his father, Henry the Second, with the purpose of buying golden opinions of the inhabitants of that new and important acquisition to the English crown.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XIV
13  The Knight obeyed; and Prince John placed upon its point a coronet of green satin, having around its edge a circlet of gold, the upper edge of which was relieved by arrow-points and hearts placed interchangeably, like the strawberry leaves and balls upon a ducal crown.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER IX
14  With a much worse grace than that wherewith he had penned the letter to Bois-Guilbert, the Prior wrote an acquittance, discharging Isaac of York of six hundred crowns, advanced to him in his need for acquittal of his ransom, and faithfully promising to hold true compt with him for that sum.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXXIII
15  It is grievous to think that those valiant barons, to whose stand against the crown the liberties of England were indebted for their existence, should themselves have been such dreadful oppressors, and capable of excesses contrary not only to the laws of England, but to those of nature and humanity.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXIII
16  Besides the massive golden signet ring, which marked his ecclesiastical dignity, his fingers, though contrary to the canon, were loaded with precious gems; his sandals were of the finest leather which was imported from Spain; his beard trimmed to as small dimensions as his order would possibly permit, and his shaven crown concealed by a scarlet cap richly embroidered.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER IV