 | sir Walter Scott (bart [novels, collected]) - 1822 - عدد الصفحات: 550
...accident, whereas the other evinced awkwardness and want of management of the weapon and of thehorse. The fifth knight alone maintained the honour of his...splintering their lances without advantage on either side. The shouts of the multitude, together with the acclamations of the heralds, and the clangour... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1924 - عدد الصفحات: 202
...his lance-point fair against the crest or shield of his enemy, swerved so much from the direct line as to break the weapon athwart the person of his opponent,...disgraceful than that of being actually unhorsed." 141. he knows . . . girdle] A proverbial expression of doubtful interpretation. Holt White explains... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1853 - عدد الصفحات: 410
...lance-point fair against the crest or the shield of his enemy, swerved so much from the direct line as to break the weapon athwart the person of his opponent...splintering their lances without advantage on either side. The shouts of the multitude, together with the acclamations of the heralds, and the clangour... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1844 - عدد الصفحات: 748
...lance-point fair against the crest or the shield of his enemy, swerved so much from the direct line as to break the weapon athwart the person of his opponent...splintering their lances without advantage on either side. The shouts of the multitude, together with the acclamations of the heralds, and the clangour... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1848 - عدد الصفحات: 330
...lancepoint fair against the crest or the shield of his enemy, swerved so much from the direct line as to break the weapon athwart the person of his opponent...splintering their lances without advantage on either side. The shouts of the multitude, together with the acclamations of the heralds, and the clangour... | |
 | Richard Green Parker - 1852 - عدد الصفحات: 380
...against the crest or the shield of his enemy, swerved so much from the direct line as to break his weapon athwart the person of his opponent, — a circumstance which was accounted more disgraceful than being actually unhorsed ; because the one might happen from accident, whereas the other evinced awkwardness,... | |
 | Theodore Alors W. Buckley - 1854 - عدد الصفحات: 332
...disgraceful than being actually unhorsed ; because the one might happen from accident, whereas the other evinced awkwardness, and want of management of the...splintering their lances, without advantage on either side. The shouts of the multitude, together with the acclamations of the heralds, and the clangor of... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1855 - عدد الصفحات: 410
...lance-point fair against the crest or the shield of his enemy, swerved so much from the direct line as to break the weapon athwart the person of his opponent...actually unhorsed ; because the latter might happen from iu-cident, whereas the former evinced awkwardness and want of management of the weapon and of the horse.... | |
 | Jean Roemer - 1857 - عدد الصفحات: 332
...against the crest or the shield of his enemy, swerved so much from the direct line as to break his weapon athwart the person of his opponent — a circumstance which was accounted more disgraceful than being actually unhorsed ; because the one might happen from accident, whereas the other evinced awkardness,... | |
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Front-de-Boeuf, rolled on the ground. The antagonist of Grantmesnil, instead of bearing his lancepoint fair against the crest or the shield of his enemy, swerved so much from the direct line as to break the weapon athwart the person of his opponent —... 
