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  • Bree wanted to joust, but Kristina thought about a long walk home and put Bree back into her box.†   (source)
  • Let there be parades through every city in the land and a gala carnival of three days' duration, consisting of jousts, games, feasts, and follies.†   (source)
  • I have heard how in the times of chivalry men had to joust with sharp lances for their women, but I don't believe they ever had to eat so many of the vicar's wife's biscuits.†   (source)
  • Jamie made a game of it, of course, running up and down between the flapping fabrics, pretending he was a knight at a joust.†   (source)
  • Knights farther back than Arthur carried these into jousts and battles.†   (source)
  • They passed like jousters at a tourney.†   (source)
  • I rode horses and shot birds with slingshots and found boys to joust with, and some nights I danced the evening away to the beautiful singing and clapping of Thembu maidens.†   (source)
  • And then your Highness will begin to learn how to tilt and joust.†   (source)
  • In the museums there were pictures of jousting knights and harlequins with wooden swords: masked men, sad and funny.†   (source)
  • Most folks were right-handed, and back then a man wanted to keep his sword or jousting pole closest to his enemy.†   (source)
  • When I saw the smile I realized verbal jousting was the only sport of Edward T. Reynolds, his only method of communication.†   (source)
  • Yet when the jousting began, the day belonged to Rhaegar Targaryen.†   (source)
  • Ned walked with the king to the jousting field.†   (source)
  • "Better than jousting in a Kansas cornfield," Percy agreed.†   (source)
  • "Five days of jousting were planned," she said.†   (source)
  • You'll need to look long and hard to find a better jouster than Loras Tyrell.†   (source)
  • I have no trade, just the jousting show, and that needs two.†   (source)
  • Robert Baratheon had been an indifferent jouster, in truth.†   (source)
  • They saw us jousting in the square and followed us.†   (source)
  • Perhaps you will be good enough to teach me, in between the jousting and the pig-riding.†   (source)
  • So long as I hear no more nonsense about jousting.†   (source)
  • A great jouster must be a great horseman first.†   (source)
  • Ser Balman had been a noted jouster once, and one of the handsomest knights in the Seven Kingdoms.†   (source)
  • Jousting was three-quarters horsemanship, Jaime had always believed.†   (source)
  • It's them, the jousting dwarfs, the ones who tilted for the queen.†   (source)
  • Annabeth, Grover, and I each took one of Briares's hands and dragged him toward the concession stands while Tyson bellowed, lowered his pole, and charged Kampe like a jousting knight.†   (source)
  • He had promised to watch the final tilts with Sansa; Septa Mordane was ill today, and his daughter was determined not to miss the end of the jousting.†   (source)
  • The jousting went all day and into the dusk, the hooves of the great warhorses pounding down the lists until the field was a ragged wasteland of torn earth.†   (source)
  • No, my jousting days are done, he thought as he dismounted ...but all the same, he stopped to watch a while.†   (source)
  • She'd gotten into Vlad's weekend hobby, bit by bit, and she seemed to like it, tagging along to tournaments and drinking mead while he jousted.†   (source)
  • I never distinguished myself again, and each defeat meant the loss of another charger and another suit of jousting armor, which must needs be ransomed or replaced.†   (source)
  • The singers, the jugglers, the dancing bear ...did your little lord husband enjoy my jousting dwarfs?†   (source)
  • You can see how tight his mouth sits, so me and the other lads we know better'n to say a squeak to him, but this brewer he's got to talk, he even asks how m'lord fared in the jousting.†   (source)
  • And despite what he'd told Bronn, going up against Ser Gregor Clegane in his own person would be a bigger farce than Joffrey's jousting dwarfs.†   (source)
  • She was off jousting, or doing medieval dances, or whatever she and Vlad did on their theme weekends.†   (source)
  • Besides the jousting, there was a melee in the old style fought between seven teams of knights, as well as archery and axe-throwing, a horse race, a tournament of singers, a mummer show, and many feasts and frolics.†   (source)
  • From Jalabhar Xho, Joffrey received a great bow of golden wood and quiver of long arrows fletched with green and scarlet feathers; from Lady Tanda a pair of supple riding boots; from Ser Kevan a magnificent red leather jousting saddle; a red gold brooch wrought in the shape of a scorpion from the Dornishman, Prince Oberyn; silver spurs from Ser Addam Marbrand; a red silk tourney pavilion from Lord Mathis Rowan.†   (source)
  • Tell about the jousting.†   (source)
  • Ser Denys hailed from one of the poor, proud branches ...but he was also a renowned jouster, handsome and gallant and brimming with courtesy.†   (source)
  • To celebrate the signing of the peace, you shall have the honor of jousting in the Great Pit of Daznak.†   (source)
  • Down beside the river, he watched two washerwomen jousting in the shallows, mounted on the shoulders of a pair of men-at-arms.†   (source)
  • We were jousting before some great lord, riding Crunch and Pretty Pig, and men were throwing roses at us.†   (source)
  • They saw us jousting in the square.†   (source)
  • Jousting is in your blood.†   (source)
  • The battle was followed by the day's first folly, a tilt between a pair of jousting dwarfs, presented by one of the Yunkish lords that Hizdahr had invited to the games.†   (source)
  • Ser Bonifer himself had been a promising knight in his youth, but something had happened to him, a defeat or a disgrace or a near brush with death, and afterward he had decided that jousting was an empty vanity and put away his lance for good and all.†   (source)
  • There will be no jousting.†   (source)
  • For his jousting lesson.†   (source)
  • There will be one final joust, between the Hound and the Knight of Flowers.†   (source)
  • That boy today, his second joust, oh, that was a pretty bit of business.†   (source)
  • Your warhorse, now, he may not be the best one for the joust.†   (source)
  • "Will you joust today, my lord?" she asked him.†   (source)
  • The little men were done up in wooden armor, miniature knights preparing for a joust.†   (source)
  • He had learned that this dated back to the days of the jousters.†   (source)
  • They joust and have festivals and sing ballads.†   (source)
  • She had come up from Oldtown with her father to see her brothers joust.†   (source)
  • My grandsons will joust with theirs, though, and one day their blood may wed with mine.†   (source)
  • Princes should be allowed to sail the sea and hunt boar in the wolfswood and joust with lances.†   (source)
  • The straw knight jousts better than that one.†   (source)
  • Since you won't joust you'll be my cupbearer.†   (source)
  • Symon says there's to be a singers' tourney, and tumblers, even a fools' joust.†   (source)
  • "Bring on my royal jousters!" he shouted in a voice thick with wine, clapping his hands together.†   (source)
  • Let us joust for our master first and save the bear for some other time.†   (source)
  • Best start eating more, so you'll be nice and plump when you joust before Her Grace.†   (source)
  • Why couldn't you just come joust with us, the way the king wanted?†   (source)
  • But I never knew that King Robert was so accomplished at the joust.†   (source)
  • She had her dog with her, the big grey hound she rode in the mock jousts.†   (source)
  • I remember watching you joust in ...which tourney was it where you fought so brilliantly, ser?†   (source)
  • Truth be told, I've seen worse jousters.†   (source)
  • I want my white courser saddled on the morrow so Ser Loras can teach me how to joust.†   (source)
  • Until you come of age, the rule is mine You will learn to joust, I promise you.†   (source)
  • The Dornish are the finest jousters in the realm.†   (source)
  • My rigid competitiveness made me want to win every single verbal joust with Jim Rowland.†   (source)
  • They say that knights will come from all over the realm to joust and feast in honor of your appointment as Hand of the King.†   (source)
  • He shouldered his way to where his daughter was seated and found her as the horns blew for the day's first joust.†   (source)
  • The most terrifying moment of the day came during Ser Gregor's second joust, when his lance rode up and struck a young knight from the Vale under the gorget with such force that it drove through his throat, killing him instantly.†   (source)
  • At sixteen, he was the youngest rider on the field, yet he had unhorsed three knights of the Kingsguard that morning in his first three jousts.†   (source)
  • While the commons began their walk home, talking of the day's jousts and the matches to come on the morrow, the court moved to the riverside to begin the feast.†   (source)
  • Then the jousts resumed.†   (source)
  • At the opposite end of the high table, Hothen and Mors were playing a drinking game, slamming their horns together as hard as knights meeting in joust.†   (source)
  • I won joust after joust.†   (source)
  • The knights waited for it to die, circled around each other trading colorful insults, and were about to separate for another joust when the dog threw its rider to the floor and mounted the sow.†   (source)
  • Aerys never let me joust.†   (source)
  • The tiny jousters led dog and sow from the hall, the guests returned to their trenchers of brawn, and Tyrion called for another cup of wine.†   (source)
  • The jousters were a pair of dwarfs.†   (source)
  • The thing is not to joust well, Hugor.†   (source)
  • I joust, I sing, I say amusing things.†   (source)
  • Viserys had told her stories of the tourneys he had witnessed in the Seven Kingdoms, but Dany had never seen a joust herself.†   (source)
  • Two of her uncles fell before his lance, along with a dozen of her father's finest jousters, the flower of the west.†   (source)
  • So he found himself clad in Groat's painted wooden armor, astride Groat's sow, whilst Groat's sister instructed him in the finer points of the mummer's joust that had been their bread and salt.†   (source)
  • Selmy had won that name when he was ten years old, a new-made squire, yet so vain and proud and foolish that he got it in his head that he could joust with tried and proven knights.†   (source)
  • Should we joust for them again?†   (source)
  • Will they joust for me?†   (source)
  • I may be a weak knight at jousting, but I have the courage to stand for my family and rights.†   (source)
  • I jousted with him and retrieved the armour.†   (source)
  • He clutched his jousting lance in his right hand, and galloped off in the direction of the noise.†   (source)
  • They jousted with him, and Galahad gave them both a fall.†   (source)
  • This was the humblest or least skilful blow in jousting.†   (source)
  • Just outside Sir Ector's castle there was a jousting field for tournaments, although there had been no tournaments in it since Kay was born.†   (source)
  • But you have to remember that people cant be good at cricket unless they teach themselves to be so, and that jousting was an art, just as cricket is.†   (source)
  • But the trouble is that he has got so valiant since he married the Queen's daughter of Flanders that he has taken to jousting in earnest, and quite often wins.†   (source)
  • As it turned out, Turquine did sit better when it came to the tilt, so that this particular criticism came to nothing—but it throws a sidelight on jousting and may have been worth mentioning.†   (source)
  • When two knights jousted they held their lances in their right hands, but they directed their horses at one another so that each man had his opponent on his near side.†   (source)
  • A good jouster, like Lancelot or Tristram, always used the blow of the point, because, although it was liable to miss in unskilful hands, it made contact sooner.†   (source)
  • Sir Grummore looked at Merlyn—magicians were considered rather middle-class by the true jousting set in those days—and said distantly, "Ah, a magician.†   (source)
  • The girths stood the test and he was in the saddle somehow, with his jousting lance between his legs, and then he was galloping round and round the tree, in the opposite direction to the one in which the brachet had wound herself up.†   (source)
  • Although nine tenths of the story seems to be about knights jousting and quests for the holy grail and things of that sort, the narrative is a whole, and it deals with the reasons why the young man came to grief at the end.†   (source)
  • These mass battles were considered to be important—for instance, once you had paid your green fee for the tournament, you were admitted on the same ticket to fight in the jousts—but if you had only paid the jousting fee, you were not allowed to fight in the tourney.†   (source)
  • He was mounted on an enormous white horse that stood as rapt as its master, and he carried in his right hand, with its butt resting on the stirrup, a high, smooth jousting lance, which stood up among the tree stumps, higher and higher, till it was outlined against the velvet sky.†   (source)
  • He had been killed by a black knight at a ford—he had jousted with his own son, who had broken his neck—he had gone mad again, after being beaten by his son, and was riding overthwart and endlong—his armour had been stolen by a mysterious knight, and he had been eaten by a beast—he had fought against two hundred and fifty knights, been taken captive, and hanged like a dog.†   (source)
  • But it would have been impossible to make a spear one hundred yards long and, if made, impossible to carry it The jouster had to find out the greatest length which he could manage with the greatest speed, and he had to stick to that Sir Lancelot, who came some time after this part of the story, had several sizes of spears and would call for his Great Spear or his Lesser Spear as occasion demanded.†   (source)
  • "I cannot guess," answered De Bracy, "nor did I think there had been within the four seas that girth Britain a champion that could bear down these five knights in one day's jousting.†   (source)
  • And he was full loath thereto, but Sir Dinadan edged him so, that he jousted with Sir Lamorak.†   (source)
  • How Sir Palomides would have jousted for Sir Lamorak with the knights of the castle.†   (source)
  • Then he called unto him a dwarf, and he bade him go unto that jousting.†   (source)
  • Of the third day, and how Sir Palomides jousted with Sir Lamorak, and other things.†   (source)
  • As for that, said King Mark, at the first time I jousted with this knight ye refused him.†   (source)
  • So God me help, said King Arthur, meseemeth yonder is the best jouster that ever I saw.†   (source)
  • How Sir Gawaine jousted and smote down Sir Lionel, and how Sir Launcelot horsed King Arthur.†   (source)
  • How Sir Palomides jousted with Sir Galihodin, and after with Sir Gawaine, and smote them down.†   (source)
  • THEN within three days after the king let make a jousting at a priory.†   (source)
  • CHAPTER V. How Balin was pursued by Sir Lanceor, knight of Ireland, and how he jousted and slew him.†   (source)
  • Nay, said Palomides, I will not joust, for I am sure at jousting I get no prize.†   (source)
  • How Sir Launcelot jousted against four knights of the Round Table and overthrew them.†   (source)
  • How Sir Gareth came to a castle where he was well lodged, and he jousted with a knight and slew him.†   (source)
  • How Sir Marhaus jousted with Sir Gawaine and Sir Uwaine, and overthrew them both.†   (source)
  • Nay, said Sir Frol, I jousted with him at my request.†   (source)
  • Then Sir Tristram said: Knight, that is well jousted, now make you ready unto me.†   (source)
  • CHAPTER V. How Sir Launcelot jousted with many knights, and how he was taken.†   (source)
  • How Sir Tristram smote down Sir Palomides, and how he jousted with King Arthur, and other feats.†   (source)
  • But ever when that he saw any jousting of knights, that would he see an he might.†   (source)
  • How Sir Lamorak jousted with divers knights of the castle wherein was Morgan le Fay.†   (source)
  • How Sir Lamorak jousted with Sir Palomides, and hurt him grievously.†   (source)
  • How Sir Dinadan met with Sir Tristram, and with jousting with Sir Palomides, Sir Dinadan knew him.†   (source)
  • So Sir Launcelot was with King Arthur, and jousted not the first day.†   (source)
  • And at the day of jousting there came in Sir Dinadan disguised, and did many great deeds of arms.†   (source)
  • Nay, said Sir Brandiles, we jousted late enough with you, we come not in that intent.†   (source)
  • Some of King Arthur's knights jousted with knights of Cornwall.†   (source)
  • How Sir Meliagaunce told for what cause they fought, and how Sir Lamorak jousted with King Arthur.†   (source)
  • And then La Cote Male Taile rode unto that knight that smote down Sir Mordred, and jousted with him.†   (source)
  • So it fell that time Sir Launcelot heard of a jousting fast by his castle, within three leagues.†   (source)
  • Of the advision of Sir Ector, and how he jousted with Sir Uwaine les Avoutres, his sworn brother.†   (source)
  • I will well, said Arthur, and rode fast after the sword, and when he came home, the lady and all were out to see the jousting.†   (source)
  • How Griflet was made knight, and jousted with a knight THOU art full young and tender of age, said Arthur, for to take so high an order on thee.†   (source)
  • So the king and all came to London, and there Sir Gawaine openly disclosed to all the court that it was Sir Launcelot that jousted best.†   (source)
  • CHAPTER X. How the third brother, called the Red Knight, jousted and fought against Beaumains, and how Beaumains overcame him.†   (source)
  • And if ye think that I be weary, and ye have an appetite to joust with me, I shall find you jousting enough.†   (source)
  • How Alisander met with Alice la Beale Pilgrim, and how he jousted with two knights; and after of him and of Sir Mordred.†   (source)
  • How Sir Tristram jousted with Sir Kay and Sir Sagramore le Desirous, and how Sir Gawaine turned Sir Tristram from Morgan le Fay.†   (source)
  • Then Sir Alisander jousted thus day by day, and on foot he did many battles with many knights of King Arthur's court, and with many knights strangers.†   (source)
  • And as he had jousted at a tournament there he overthrew me and thirty knights more, and there he won the degree.†   (source)
  • Then said Sir Arthur unto Sir Launcelot: See yonder three knights do passingly well, and namely the first that jousted.†   (source)
  • How King Arthur marvelled much of the jousting in the field, and how he rode and found Sir Launcelot.†   (source)
  • And then La Cote Male Taile jousted with that other, and either of them smote other down, horse and all, to the earth.†   (source)
  • But Sir Lavaine jousted there all that Christmas passingly well, and best was praised, for there were but few that did so well.†   (source)
  • So Sir Launcelot departed unto King Arthur; and then he told Queen Guenever how he that jousted so well at the last tournament was Sir Tristram.†   (source)
  • By my head, said Sir Tristram, he jousted better than Sir Palomides, and if ye list to know his name, wit ye well his name is Sir Lamorak de Galis.†   (source)
  • THUS it passed on till Christmas, and then every day there was jousts made for a diamond, who that jousted best should have a diamond.†   (source)
  • How Sir Kay met with Sir Tristram, and after of the shame spoken of the knights of Cornwall, and how they jousted.†   (source)
  • Also the second day there jousted Tristram best, and he overthrew forty knights, and did there marvellous deeds of arms.†   (source)
  • BOOK X CHAPTER I. How Sir Tristram jousted, and smote down King Arthur, because he told him not the cause why he bare that shield.†   (source)
  • How Sir Launcelot jousted with Palomides and overthrew him, and after he was assailed with twelve knights.†   (source)
  • O Jesu, said Sir Palomides, that yonder is a passing good knight, and the best jouster that ever I saw.†   (source)
  • And ever there were upon the walls of the castle many lords and ladies that cried and said: Well have ye jousted, Knight with the Red Shield.†   (source)
  • And there by fortune came Sir Lamorak de Galis and Sir Driant; and there Sir Driant jousted right well, but at the last he had a fall.†   (source)
  • Sir, said the porter, ride ye within the castle, and there is a common place for jousting, that lords and ladies may behold you.†   (source)
  • How Sir Tristram and his fellowship jousted, and of the noble feats that they did in that tourneying.†   (source)
  • How Beaumains departed, and how he gat of Sir Kay a spear and a shield, and how he jousted with Sir Launcelot.†   (source)
  • Ye shall not do so, said Sir Lamorak, by my counsel, an ye will tell me your quarrel, whether ye jousted at his request, or he at yours.†   (source)
  • As unto that counsel and at the king's request they accorded all, and took on their harness that longed unto jousting.†   (source)
  • Ah, said Frol, yonder knight jousted late with me and smote me down, therefore I will joust with him.†   (source)
  • How Sir Lamorak jousted with thirty knights, and Sir Tristram at the request of King Mark smote his horse down.†   (source)
  • The third day there jousted Sir Launcelot du Lake, and he overthrew fifty knights, and did many marvellous deeds of arms, that all men wondered on him.†   (source)
  • Forsooth, said Palomides, it longed not to none of us as this day to joust, for there have not this day jousted no proved knights, and needly ye would joust.†   (source)
  • So when Sir Launcelot understood wherefore King Arthur made this jousting, then he made such purveyance that La Beale Isoud should behold the jousts in a secret place that was honest for her estate.†   (source)
  • So when he came to the churchyard, Sir Arthur alighted and tied his horse to the stile, and so he went to the tent, and found no knights there, for they were at the jousting.†   (source)
  • Sir Dinadan knew the knight well that he was a noble knight, and fain he would have jousted, but he had had liefer King Mark had jousted with him, but by no mean King Mark would not joust.†   (source)
  • By then was Sir Palomides horsed, and with great ire he jousted upon Sir Tristram with his spear as it was in the rest, and gave him a great dash with his sword.†   (source)
  • And then Sir Tristram would have jousted with Sir Bors, and Sir Bors said that he would not joust with no Cornish knights, for they are not called men of worship; and all this was done upon a bridge.†   (source)
  • Then he dressed him again to the castle, and jousted with seven knights more, and there was none of them might withstand him, but he bare him to the earth.†   (source)
  • And then Sir Galahault, the noble prince, cried on high: Knight with the many colours, well hast thou jousted; now make thee ready that I may joust with thee.†   (source)
  • With this came in Sir Tristram with his black shield, and anon he jousted with Sir Palomides, and there by fine force Sir Tristram smote Sir Palomides over his horse's croup.†   (source)
  • Then he jousted with his twenty fellows that were made knights with him, but for to make a short tale, he overthrew all those twenty, that none might withstand him a buffet.†   (source)
  • And there came out two knights against them, and Sir Mordred jousted with the foremost, and that knight of the castle smote Sir Mordred down off his horse.†   (source)
  • Nay, said the knight, ye shall do better, ye are a passing good jouster as ever I met withal, and once for the love of the high order of knighthood let us joust once again.†   (source)
  • As for that, said Sir Lamorak, I can thee no thank; since thou hast for-jousted me on horseback I require thee and I beseech thee, an thou be Sir Tristram, fight with me on foot.†   (source)
  • And then Sir Tristram ran upon Sir Gaheris, and he would not have jousted; but whether he would or not Sir Tristram smote him over his horse's croup, that he lay still as though he had been dead.†   (source)
  • And within a while there came Sir Bleoberis, the good knight, and there he jousted with La Cote Male Taile, and there Sir Bleoberis smote him so sore, that horse and all fell to the earth.†   (source)
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