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1  He only replied, "Silence, maiden; thy tongue outruns thy discretion."
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER III
2  Truly, I fear they will lose in valour what they may gain in discretion.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXVI
3  Brother," said he to the Knight, "thou shouldst have used thy strength with more discretion.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXXII.
4  Groups of every description were to be seen devouring the food and swallowing the liquor thus abandoned to their discretion.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XLI
5  Sir Sluggish Knight, I drink to thee," said the hermit; "respecting thy valour much, but deeming wondrous slightly of thy discretion.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XVI
6  The path which the animal adopted rather turned off from the course pursued by the knight during the day; but as the horse seemed confident in his choice, the rider abandoned himself to his discretion.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XVI
7  The devotion of the Knight to Rebecca's defence was exaggerated beyond the bounds, not only of discretion, but even of the most frantic excess of chivalrous zeal; and his deference to what she said, even although her language was often severe and upbraiding, was painted as carried to an excess, which, in a man of his haughty temper, seemed almost preternatural.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXXVII