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1  The cords of the tents were of the same colour.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER VII
2  On his retiring to his tent, many who had lingered in the lists, to look upon and form conjectures concerning him, also dispersed.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER IX
3  From the entrance into the lists, a gently sloping passage, ten yards in breadth, led up to the platform on which the tents were pitched.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER VII
4  The Disinherited Knight returned to his first station, and Bois-Guilbert to his tent, where he remained for the rest of the day in an agony of despair.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER VIII
5  As the procession entered the lists, the sound of a wild Barbaric music was heard from behind the tents of the challengers, where the performers were concealed.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER VIII
6  All others being excluded from the tent, this attendant relieved his master from the more burdensome parts of his armour, and placed food and wine before him, which the exertions of the day rendered very acceptable.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER X
7  Thus they parted, the outlaws returning in the direction from whence they had come, and Gurth proceeding to the tent of his master, to whom, notwithstanding the injunction he had received, he communicated the whole adventures of the evening.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XI
8  The Disinherited Knight, therefore, stept boldly forth to the front of his tent, and found in attendance the squires of the challengers, whom he easily knew by their russet and black dresses, each of whom led his master's charger, loaded with the armour in which he had that day fought.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER X
9  On one side of his tent were pitched those of Reginald Front-de-Boeuf and Richard de Malvoisin, and on the other was the pavilion of Hugh de Grantmesnil, a noble baron in the vicinity, whose ancestor had been Lord High Steward of England in the time of the Conqueror, and his son William Rufus.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER VII
10  The knight, therefore, stretched himself for repose upon a rich couch with which the tent was provided; and the faithful Gurth, extending his hardy limbs upon a bear-skin which formed a sort of carpet to the pavilion, laid himself across the opening of the tent, so that no one could enter without awakening him.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XI
11  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
12  The northern access to the lists terminated in a similar entrance of thirty feet in breadth, at the extremity of which was a large enclosed space for such knights as might be disposed to enter the lists with the challengers, behind which were placed tents containing refreshments of every kind for their accommodation, with armourers, tarriers, and other attendants, in readiness to give their services wherever they might be necessary.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER VII