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  • 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)
  • 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)
  • Bree wanted to joust, but Kristina thought about a long walk home and put Bree back into her box.†   (source)
  • Most folks were right-handed, and back then a man wanted to keep his sword or jousting pole closest to his enemy.†   (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)
  • Knights farther back than Arthur carried these into jousts and battles.†   (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)
  • They passed like jousters at a tourney.†   (source)
  • And then your Highness will begin to learn how to tilt and joust.†   (source)
  • When I saw the smile I realized verbal jousting was the only sport of Edward T. Reynolds, his only method of communication.†   (source)
  • He rides out, then turns, running hard for the dead like a knight in a joust.†   (source)
  • In the museums there were pictures of jousting knights and harlequins with wooden swords: masked men, sad and funny.†   (source)
  • Ned walked with the king to the jousting field.†   (source)
  • "Jousting against Acererak?" she said, as if it were obvious.†   (source)
  • "I have Aech here to thank for my jousting prowess," I said.†   (source)
  • Yet when the jousting began, the day belonged to Rhaegar Targaryen.†   (source)
  • "You might want to brush up on your jousting skills," I said.†   (source)
  • I charged the goat-killer with my twenty-foot-long jousting light fixture.†   (source)
  • "Five days of jousting were planned," she said.†   (source)
  • "Better than jousting in a Kansas cornfield," Percy agreed.†   (source)
  • A great jouster must be a great horseman first.†   (source)
  • Jousting was three-quarters horsemanship, Jaime had always believed.†   (source)
  • So long as I hear no more nonsense about jousting.†   (source)
  • They saw us jousting in the square and followed us.†   (source)
  • Robert Baratheon had been an indifferent jouster, in truth.†   (source)
  • "It's them, the jousting dwarfs, the ones who tilted for the queen."†   (source)
  • I have no trade, just the jousting show, and that needs two.†   (source)
  • You'll need to look long and hard to find a better jouster than Loras Tyrell.†   (source)
  • Perhaps you will be good enough to teach me, in between the jousting and the pig-riding.†   (source)
  • Ser Balman had been a noted jouster once, and one of the handsomest knights in the Seven Kingdoms.†   (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)
  • We can give each other Jousting tips.†   (source)
  • No, my jousting days are done, he thought as he dismounted …. but all the same, he stopped to watch a while.†   (source)
  • She was off jousting, or doing medieval dances, or whatever she and Vlad did on their theme weekends.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • The singers, the jugglers, the dancing bear …. did your little lord husband enjoy my jousting dwarfs?†   (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)
  • Tell about the jousting.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • Jousting is in your blood.†   (source)
  • They saw us jousting in the square.†   (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)
  • There will be no jousting.†   (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)
  • For his jousting lesson.†   (source)
  • Joust was a classic '80s arcade game with a strange premise.†   (source)
  • That boy today, his second joust, oh, that was a pretty bit of business.†   (source)
  • There will be one final joust, between the Hound and the Knight of Flowers.†   (source)
  • You shall prove your worth by facing me in a joust!†   (source)
  • My Joust skills were a lot rustier than I thought.†   (source)
  • Your warhorse, now, he may not be the best one for the joust.†   (source)
  • "Halliday must not have wanted anyone to duel for the right to joust the king," I said.†   (source)
  • So …. if Acererak beat you at Joust, then you had to fight him.†   (source)
  • I couldn't help but grin as I read the name on the game's backlit marquee: JOUST.†   (source)
  • I should probably prepare for my Joust match anyway.†   (source)
  • "I've been practicing Joust nonstop for over a month now!†   (source)
  • I'd never even played Joust before this, and now it's driving me out of my gourd!†   (source)
  • He stepped up to the Joust machine and dropped both quarters into the left coin slot.†   (source)
  • I used to play Joust all the time against a friend of mine.†   (source)
  • There was no way he was that good at Joust.†   (source)
  • Then he slapped the Two Player button and the joust began.†   (source)
  • And since she knew about the Joust game, she'd obviously already faced the lich herself.†   (source)
  • It was one of Aech's favorite games, and for a while he'd had a Joust cabinet in his chat room.†   (source)
  • "But to get the key, each Sixer has to beat the lich at Joust, which we all know isn't easy."†   (source)
  • My grades are going down the tubes, because I've been ditching to practice Joust—"†   (source)
  • I'd never heard of an undead lich king challenging someone to a joust.†   (source)
  • So it might be possible for hundreds of Sixers to joust for the Copper Key at the same time.†   (source)
  • Acererak once again produced two quarters and dropped them into the Joust machine.†   (source)
  • When you crash into an opponent, whoever's lance is higher on the screen wins the joust.†   (source)
  • She'd faced the lich at Joust and he'd beaten her.†   (source)
  • The little men were done up in wooden armor, miniature knights preparing for a joust.†   (source)
  • "Will you joust today, my lord?" she asked him.†   (source)
  • He had learned that this dated back to the days of the jousters.†   (source)
  • My rigid competitiveness made me want to win every single verbal joust with Jim Rowland.†   (source)
  • Princes should be allowed to sail the sea and hunt boar in the wolfswood and joust with lances.†   (source)
  • They joust and have festivals and sing ballads.†   (source)
  • My grandsons will joust with theirs, though, and one day their blood may wed with mine.†   (source)
  • She had come up from Oldtown with her father to see her brothers joust.†   (source)
  • The straw knight jousts better than that one.†   (source)
  • "Symon says there's to be a singers' tourney, and tumblers, even a fools' joust."†   (source)
  • Since you won't joust you'll be my cupbearer."†   (source)
  • "Bring on my royal jousters!" he shouted in a voice thick with wine, clapping his hands together.†   (source)
  • Why couldn't you just come joust with us, the way the king wanted?†   (source)
  • Best start eating more, so you'll be nice and plump when you joust before Her Grace."†   (source)
  • Let us joust for our master first and save the bear for some other time.†   (source)
  • I remember watching you joust in …. which tourney was it where you fought so brilliantly, ser?†   (source)
  • She had her dog with her, the big grey hound she rode in the mock jousts.†   (source)
  • Until you come of age, the rule is mine You will learn to joust, I promise you.†   (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)
  • But I never knew that King Robert was so accomplished at the joust.†   (source)
  • The Dornish are the finest jousters in the realm.†   (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)
  • Yet he acquitted himself well, unhorsing Horas Redwyne in his first joust and one of the Freys in his second.†   (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)
  • About changing sides on the Joust game?†   (source)
  • When he reached a challenge he couldn't handle, like winning at Joust, he could just hand control of his avatar off to one of his underlings.†   (source)
  • So they can just have their best Joust players take control of each Sixer avatar during the match against Acererak.†   (source)
  • Soon, thousands of gunters (and Sixers) had crammed into the burial chamber, all ready to challenge the lich king to a game of Joust.†   (source)
  • "My brother and I have been playing Joust against one another for years, because the game was mentioned in Anorak's Almanac."†   (source)
  • He smashed an angry fist into the side of the Joust cabinet, shattering it into a million tiny pixels that scattered and bounced across the floor.†   (source)
  • "I couldn't defeat the lich at Joust.†   (source)
  • If I hadn't already had so many hours of Joust practice under my belt, God knows how many attempts it would have taken me to beat Acererak.†   (source)
  • I couldn't hear her reply, but a few seconds later the throne transformed into the Joust game, just as it had earlier.†   (source)
  • This had really irked me, so I started practicing Joust on my own, playing a few games a night against an AI opponent.†   (source)
  • I hadn't played Joust in over a year.†   (source)
  • Aech and I quickly fell into our old familiar rhythm, and before long it was like we were back in the Basement, trash-talking each other over a game of Quake or Joust.†   (source)
  • As I ran out of the forest, I kept the Scoreboard up in the corner of my display so I'd know immediately if Art3mis won her Joust match and obtained the key.†   (source)
  • You flap your wings to fly around the screen and "joust" with the other player, and also against several computer-controlled enemy knights (who are all mounted on buzzards).†   (source)
  • Scrolling down, I saw that the Scoreboard was now over five thousand names long, with more being added every hour as new avatars finally managed to defeat Acererak at Joust and collect their own instance of the Copper Key.†   (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)
  • Two of her uncles fell before his lance, along with a dozen of her father's finest jousters, the flower of the west.†   (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)
  • Should we joust for them again?†   (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)
  • 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)
  • Will they joust for me?†   (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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • 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 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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • "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)
  • CHAPTER V. How Balin was pursued by Sir Lanceor, knight of Ireland, and how he jousted and slew him.†   (source)
  • How Sir Gareth came to a castle where he was well lodged, and he jousted with a knight and slew him.†   (source)
  • Some of King Arthur's knights jousted with knights of Cornwall.†   (source)
  • But ever when that he saw any jousting of knights, that would he see an he might.†   (source)
  • How Sir Marhaus jousted with Sir Gawaine and Sir Uwaine, and overthrew them both.†   (source)
  • Nay, said Sir Brandiles, we jousted late enough with you, we come not in that intent.†   (source)
  • How Sir Palomides would have jousted for Sir Lamorak with the knights of the castle.†   (source)
  • How Sir Gawaine jousted and smote down Sir Lionel, and how Sir Launcelot horsed King Arthur.†   (source)
  • And then La Cote Male Taile rode unto that knight that smote down Sir Mordred, and jousted with him.†   (source)
  • How Sir Launcelot jousted against four knights of the Round Table and overthrew them.†   (source)
  • Then he called unto him a dwarf, and he bade him go unto that jousting.†   (source)
  • Then Sir Tristram said: Knight, that is well jousted, now make you ready unto me.†   (source)
  • Of the advision of Sir Ector, and how he jousted with Sir Uwaine les Avoutres, his sworn brother.†   (source)
  • So it fell that time Sir Launcelot heard of a jousting fast by his castle, within three leagues.†   (source)
  • CHAPTER V. How Sir Launcelot jousted with many knights, and how he was taken.†   (source)
  • THEN within three days after the king let make a jousting at a priory.†   (source)
  • How Sir Meliagaunce told for what cause they fought, and how Sir Lamorak jousted with King Arthur.†   (source)
  • How Sir Tristram smote down Sir Palomides, and how he jousted with King Arthur, and other feats.†   (source)
  • Nay, said Sir Frol, I jousted with him at my request.†   (source)
  • And at the day of jousting there came in Sir Dinadan disguised, and did many great deeds of arms.†   (source)
  • Nay, said Palomides, I will not joust, for I am sure at jousting I get no prize.†   (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)
  • Of the third day, and how Sir Palomides jousted with Sir Lamorak, and other things.†   (source)
  • How Sir Palomides jousted with Sir Galihodin, and after with Sir Gawaine, and smote them down.†   (source)
  • So God me help, said King Arthur, meseemeth yonder is the best jouster that ever I saw.†   (source)
  • As for that, said King Mark, at the first time I jousted with this knight ye refused him.†   (source)
  • So Sir Launcelot was with King Arthur, and jousted not the first day.†   (source)
  • And he was full loath thereto, but Sir Dinadan edged him so, that he jousted with Sir Lamorak.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • How Sir Lamorak jousted with thirty knights, and Sir Tristram at the request of King Mark smote his horse down.†   (source)
  • Ah, said Frol, yonder knight jousted late with me and smote me down, therefore I will joust with him.†   (source)
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