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1  From the Disinherited Knight," said Gurth, "victor in this day's tournament.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER X
2  The rear rank of each party advanced at a slower pace to sustain the defeated, and follow up the success of the victors of their party.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XII
3  The victors, assembling in large bands, gazed with wonder, not unmixed with fear, upon the flames, in which their own ranks and arms glanced dusky red.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXXI
4  The shouts of the multitude, together with the acclamations of the heralds, and the clangour of the trumpets, announced the triumph of the victors and the defeat of the vanquished.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER VIII
5  Through a field slippery with blood, and encumbered with broken armour and the bodies of slain and wounded horses, the marshals of the lists again conducted the victor to the foot of Prince John's throne.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XII
6  The royal policy had long been to weaken, by every means, legal or illegal, the strength of a part of the population which was justly considered as nourishing the most inveterate antipathy to their victor.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER I
7  It had therefore been with smothered displeasure that the proud though indolent Lord of Coningsburgh beheld the victor of the preceding day select Rowena as the object of that honour which it became his privilege to confer.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XII
8  Hubert, who, as victor in the first trial of skill, had the right to shoot first, took his aim with great deliberation, long measuring the distance with his eye, while he held in his hand his bended bow, with the arrow placed on the string.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XIII
9  They were all old, or, at least, elderly men; for the younger race, to the great displeasure of the seniors, had, like Ivanhoe, broken down many of the barriers which separated for half a century the Norman victors from the vanquished Saxons.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XLII
10  However unacceptable these sounds might be to Prince John, and to those around him, he saw himself nevertheless obliged to confirm the nomination of the victor, and accordingly calling to horse, he left his throne; and mounting his jennet, accompanied by his train, he again entered the lists.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER IX
11  The former retreated to their pavilions, and the latter, gathering themselves up as they could, withdrew from the lists in disgrace and dejection, to agree with their victors concerning the redemption of their arms and their horses, which, according to the laws of the tournament, they had forfeited.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER VIII
12  Cedric the Saxon, overjoyed at the discomfiture of the Templar, and still more so at the miscarriage of his two malevolent neighbours, Front-de-Boeuf and Malvoisin, had, with his body half stretched over the balcony, accompanied the victor in each course, not with his eyes only, but with his whole heart and soul.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER IX
13  A more sincere and more general, as well as a better-merited acclamation, attended the victor of the day, until, anxious to withdraw himself from popular notice, he accepted the accommodation of one of those pavilions pitched at the extremities of the lists, the use of which was courteously tendered him by the marshals of the field.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER IX
14  William de Wyvil and Stephen de Martival, the marshals of the field, were the first to offer their congratulations to the victor, praying him, at the same time, to suffer his helmet to be unlaced, or, at least, that he would raise his visor ere they conducted him to receive the prize of the day's tourney from the hands of Prince John.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER IX
15  In the meanwhile, the bustling Prior of Jorvaulx had reminded Prince John, in a whisper, that the victor must now display his good judgment, instead of his valour, by selecting from among the beauties who graced the galleries a lady, who should fill the throne of the Queen of Beauty and of Love, and deliver the prize of the tourney upon the ensuing day.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER IX