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  • She could tell you the names of all King Arthur's knights, and she knew everything about Beowulf and Grendel, the ancient gods and the not-quite-so-ancient heroes.†   (source)
  • You can't write A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (1889) without being familiar with Arthurian romances.†   (source)
  • Josh discovered that he wasn't even surprised to hear that King Arthur had been real, and he found himself wondering which other legendary figures had really existed.†   (source)
  • That America now seems as dead and distant as the England of King Arthur.†   (source)
  • She waved her hand with a flourish as if she were introducing us to King Arthur's court.†   (source)
  • What's not okay is Old Fart McGuinty sitting at my regular table, with my lady friends, and holding court like King Arthur.†   (source)
  • When Jackie thinks of Camelot, she focuses on the final act of the play, where King Arthur regains his wonder and hope.†   (source)
  • But compared to Aunt Loma, he was King Arthur and I was a Knight of the Round Table.†   (source)
  • Does that mean that if I stand in the center of Stonehenge, I could become as powerful as King Arthur?†   (source)
  • Like with King Arthur.†   (source)
  • The decor had a King Arthur theme; there was even a small suit of armour made of gold plastic at the foot of the stairs.†   (source)
  • Greece is such an area, and those parts of England where King Arthur walked.†   (source)
  • There were the fairy tales—Grimm, Andersen, the English, the French, "Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves"; and there was Aesop and Reynard the Fox; there were the myths and legends, Robin Hood, King Arthur, and St. George and the Dragon, even the history of Joan of Arc; a whack of Pilgrim's Progress and a long piece of Gulliver.†   (source)
  • Reading 'King Arthur' and 'The Three Musketeers', and Burroughs wonderful Mars stories—But every kid does that.†   (source)
  • Consequently, when the Pevensie children had returned to Narnia last time for their second visit, it was (for the Narnians) as if King Arthur came back to Britain, as some people say he will.†   (source)
  • They had analyzed and parsed it and torn it to pieces in general until it was a wonder there was any meaning at all left in it for them, but at least the fair lily maid and Lancelot and Guinevere and King Arthur had become very real people to them, and Anne was devoured by secret regret that she had not been born in Camelot.   (source)
  • King Arthur wanted to improve his men, so he made them armor-plated.†   (source)
  • Reading King Arthur is what made me an old maid, Will.†   (source)
  • Like the famed stone that released Excalibur into the hands of King Arthur, the Masonic Pyramid can transform itself if it so chooses ....and reveal its secret to the worthy.†   (source)
  • Enduring legends like Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, King Arthur, and Sleeping Beauty were Grail allegories.†   (source)
  • Every now and then King Arthur would send them off on a special secret mission, which in the old days they called a 'quest.'†   (source)
  • Even King Arthur's mythical, Grail-rich Isle of Avalon was now believed to be none other than Glastonbury, England.†   (source)
  • King Arthur was the first king of England, way back when there were still dragons and monsters in the world.†   (source)
  • This longitudinal Rose Line is the traditional marker of King Arthur's Isle of Avalon and is considered the central pillar of Britain's sacred geometry.†   (source)
  • The primary research room was as Teabing had described it—a dramatic octagonal chamber dominated by an enormous round table around which King Arthur and his knights might have been comfortable were it not for the presence of twelve flat-screen computer workstations.†   (source)
  • The only King Arthur I know is the brand of flour Gram uses, and if I say that I'll really sound like a butthead.†   (source)
  • You know about King Arthur, right?†   (source)
  • By now I know what a quest is because Freak has explained the whole deal, how it started with King Arthur trying to keep all his knights busy by making them do things that proved how strong and brave and smart they were, or sometimes how totally numb, because how else can you explain dudes running around inside big clunky tin cans and praying all the time?†   (source)
  • My ancestor Eledin received his at the same time as the High King Arthur, and he never saw a difference in the two.†   (source)
  • The First Lady is referring to the Broadway musical starring Richard Burton as the legendary King Arthur, the lovely Julie Andrews as Queen Guinevere, and Robert Goulet as Sir Lancelot.†   (source)
  • The bed, the headboard dark and ungiving as an old mirror on the wall, to her as a child a vast King Arthur shield that might have concealed a motto, cast its afternoon shadow down dark as muscadines, to her mother's waist.†   (source)
  • I read about King Arthur's Round Table when I was a kid, but what am I ever going to do about it?†   (source)
  • My mother was a good woman until she met King Arthur.†   (source)
  • King Arthur was delighted to see his old triends again, and to hear of Pellinore's engagement.†   (source)
  • It was a different castle to the one in which King Arthur used to scamper.†   (source)
  • We shall save thy life if you come to King Arthur.†   (source)
  • If he tries to rescue her, there will be a fight King Arthur will have to fight him.†   (source)
  • "Bah!" said King Arthur, in the tone which Gawaine had used before him.†   (source)
  • It was the last time that Sir Lancelot, King Arthur and Queen Guenever were to be together.†   (source)
  • Why should King Arthur seek to smooth it o'er?†   (source)
  • Lancelot ended by being the greatest knight King Arthur had.†   (source)
  • King Arthur sat back in the Great Hall, which was empty.†   (source)
  • There was a king once, called King Arthur.†   (source)
  • King Arthur had asked his wife to be kind to the young man.†   (source)
  • The boy asked: "Have you come from the court of King Arthur?"†   (source)
  • All these people gave themselves up, not to King Arthur, but to Guenever.†   (source)
  • It is why our Da has gone away to fight against King Arthur whatever, for Arthur is a Pendragon.†   (source)
  • The child said, with the pure eyes of absolute truth: "I would do anything for King Arthur."†   (source)
  • King Arthur paid no attention to the coming battle.†   (source)
  • King Arthur came to a woman who was faithful to her husband.†   (source)
  • Yes, King Arthur.†   (source)
  • The story is told, for example, of King Arthur, and how he made him ready with many knights to ride ahunting.†   (source)
  • Taliesin, "Chief of the Bards of the West," may have been an actual historical personage of the sixth century A.D., contemporary with the chieftain who became the "King Arthur" of later romance.†   (source)
  • This hart will I chase, said King Arthur, and so he spurred the horse, and rode after long, and so by fine force he was like to have smitten the hart; whereas the King had chased the hart so long, that his horse lost his breath, and fell down dead; then a yeoman fetched the King another horse.†   (source)
  • Ulster ()de of the Knights of the Red Branch, which treats primarily of the deeds of Cuchulainn (pronounced coohoolinn) at the court of his uncle Conchobar (pronounced conohoor): this cycle greatly influenced the development of the Arthurian tradition, in Wales, Brittany, and England—the court of Conchobar serving as model for that of King Arthur and the deeds of Cuchulainn for those of Arthur's nephew, Sir Gawain (Gawain was the original hero of many of the adventures later assigned to Lancelot, Perceval, and Galahad); (4) The Cycle of the Fianna: the Fianna were a company of heroic fighters under the captaincy of Finn MacCool (see p. 192, above); the greatest tale of this cycle bein†   (source)
  • But Lancelot had spent his childhood between knightly exercises and thinking out King Arthur's theory for himself.†   (source)
  • Also it will give a picture of the state of England, which forced King Arthur to work for his theory of justice.†   (source)
  • Another voice shouted: "Let thee wit we have the choice of King Arthur, to save thee or to slay thee."†   (source)
  • King Arthur might turn to Guenever in the Pavilion, and remark that the great man's footwork was as lovely as ever.†   (source)
  • The first two people to notice that Lancelot and Guenever were falling in love with each other were Uncle Dap and King Arthur himself.†   (source)
  • If it please mine uncle, King Arthur, to accord with him, then the King will lose my service and that of all the Gael.†   (source)
  • When they had been riding for some time, they came to a ford like the one at which he had fought the first fight with King Arthur.†   (source)
  • Lancelot, swinging his dumb-bells fiercely and making his wordless noise, had been thinking of King Arthur with all his might.†   (source)
  • By this time Sir Ector had arrived in the boat—Sir Ector Demaris, not King Arthur's guardian—and the portcullis had been raised for him.†   (source)
  • When Lancelot was kneeling in front of Urre, he said to King Arthur: "Need I do this, after everybody has failed?"†   (source)
  • You are a traitor to King Arthur!†   (source)
  • These were Knights of the Sassenach, they were thinking—for they could tell by the armour—and, if so, knights of that very King Arthur against whom their own king had for the second time revolted.†   (source)
  • I am come to maintain with my body that the Queen is fair, true, good and clean to King Arthur, and this I will make good upon any challenge, excepting only if it were the King or Sir Gawaine.†   (source)
  • King Arthur will watch from here.†   (source)
  • Unto Sir Lancelot, flower of all noble knights that ever I heard of or saw By my days: I, Sir Gawaine, King Lot's son of Orkney, sister's son unto the noble King Arthur, send thee greetings.†   (source)
  • That horrid King of Northgalis has challenged my father to a tournament next Tuesday, and he has got three knights of King Arthur's on his side, and my poor father is bound to lose.†   (source)
  • More complicated even than this—for surely no Sassenach could be so simple as to come in the garb of the Sassenach—were they perhaps not representatives of King Arthur at all?†   (source)
  • Here might come a baron with a hot pie carried carefully before him, because he had to bring such a pie to the King once a year, so as to let King Arthur sniff it in payment of his feudal dues.†   (source)
  • Where once, before King Arthur had made his chivalry, the Knight of the Tower Landry had been compelled to warn his daughter against entering her own dining hall in the evening unaccompanied—for fear of what might happen in the dark corners—now there was music and light.†   (source)
  • In future it will be your glorious doom to take up the burden and to enjoy the nobility of your proper title: so now I shall crave the privilege of being the very first of your subjects to address you with it—as my dear liege lord, King Arthur.†   (source)
  • Since King Arthur was king.†   (source)
  • The bishops assured both sides that they were certain to win, because God was with them, but King Arthur's men knew that they were outnumbered by three to one, so they thought it was best to get shriven.†   (source)
  • In other parts of Gramarye, of course, there did exist wicked and despotic masters—feudal gangsters whom it was to be King Arthur's destiny to chasten—but the evil was in the bad people who abused it, not in the feudal system.†   (source)
  • There were a hundred and fifty of them in the happy days, and King Arthur loved his Table with all his heart He was prouder of it than he was of his own dear wife, and for many years his new knights went about killing ogres, and rescuing damsels and saving poor prisoners, and trying to set the world to rights.†   (source)
  • And this, as Merlyn drew it later, was what the magician called its pied-de-grue: Earl of Cornwall = Igraine = Uther Pendragon Morgan le Fay Elaine Lot = Morgause = Arthur Gawaine Agravaine Gaheris Gareth Mordred Even if you have to read it twice, like something in a history lesson, this pedigree is a vital part of the tragedy of King Arthur.†   (source)
  • On one side would be a commodious gibbet set up by some old-fashioned princeling to hang King Arthur's knights and the common Saxons who trusted them—a gibbet perhaps nearly as sumptuous as that constructed at Montfaucon, which could support sixty bodies depending like drab fuchsias between its sixteen stone pillars.†   (source)
  • Yes, King Arthur.†   (source)
  • Then was King Arthur ware where Sir Mordred leaned upon his sword among a great heap of dead men.†   (source)
  • But to return to my anomalous position in King Arthur's kingdom.†   (source)
  • Truly, said King Arthur, that knight with the many colors is a good knight.†   (source)
  • King Arthur had hurried up the army business altogether beyond my calculations.†   (source)
  • Here are the names of the nines: BESSEMERS ULSTERS KING ARTHUR.†   (source)
  • When his swagger is exhausted he drivels into erotic poetry or sentimental uxoriousness; and the Tennysonian King Arthur posing as Guinevere becomes Don Quixote grovelling before Dulcinea.†   (source)
  • King Alfred conquered the Dames, King Arthur lived in the Age of Shivery, King Harold mustarded his troops before the Battle of Hastings, Joan of Arc was canonized by Bernard Shaw.†   (source)
  • And when Sir Mordred felt that he had his death's wound, he thrust himself, with the might that he had, up to the butt of King Arthur's spear.†   (source)
  • King Arthur's people were not aware that they were indecent and I had presence of mind enough not to mention it.†   (source)
  • In the midst of the talk I let drop a complimentary word about King Arthur, forgetting for the moment how this woman hated her brother.†   (source)
  • And then King Arthur smote Sir Mordred under the shield, with a foin of his spear throughout the body more than a fathom.†   (source)
  • MARK TWAIN HARTFORD, July 21, 1889 A CONNECTICUT YANKEE IN KING ARTHUR'S COURT A WORD OF EXPLANATION It was in Warwick Castle that I came across the curious stranger whom I am going to talk about.†   (source)
  • CHAPTER II — KING ARTHUR'S COURT†   (source)
  • Then shall ye, said Sir Launcelot, on Whitsunday next coming go unto the court of King Arthur, and there shall ye yield you unto Queen Guenever, and put you all three in her grace and mercy, and say that Sir Kay sent you thither to be her prisoners.†   (source)
  • The most of King Arthur's British nation were slaves, pure and simple, and bore that name, and wore the iron collar on their necks; and the rest were slaves in fact, but without the name; they imagined themselves men and freemen, and called themselves so.†   (source)
  • I asked the queen to let me clear the place and speak to the prisoner privately; and when she was going to object I spoke in a low voice and said I did not want to make a scene before her servants, but I must have my way; for I was King Arthur's representative, and was speaking in his name.†   (source)
  • Now by my faith I know well that he will grieve some of the court of King Arthur; for on him knights will be bold, and deem that it is I, and that will beguile them; and because of his armor and shield I am sure I shall ride in peace.†   (source)
  • And then they holp up their father, and so by their common assent promised unto Sir Marhaus never to be foes unto King Arthur, and thereupon at Whitsuntide after, to come he and his sons, and put them in the king's grace.†   (source)
  • The page said, further, that dinner was about ended in the great hall by this time, and that as soon as the sociability and the heavy drinking should begin, Sir Kay would have me in and exhibit me before King Arthur and his illustrious knights seated at the Table Round, and would brag about his exploit in capturing me, and would probably exaggerate the facts a little, but it wouldn't be good form for me to correct him, and not over safe, either; and when I was done being exhibited, then ho for the dungeon; but he, Clarence, would find a way to come and see me every now and then, and cheer me up, and help me get word to my friends.†   (source)
  • There was half a moment of silence, immediately interrupted by the droning voice of the salaried cicerone: "Ancient hauberk, date of the sixth century, time of King Arthur and the Round Table; said to have belonged to the knight Sir Sagramor le Desirous; observe the round hole through the chain-mail in the left breast; can't be accounted for; supposed to have been done with a bullet since invention of firearms—perhaps maliciously by Cromwell's soldiers."†   (source)
  • This missionary knight's name was La Cote Male Taile, and he said that this castle was the abode of Morgan le Fay, sister of King Arthur, and wife of King Uriens, monarch of a realm about as big as the District of Columbia—you could stand in the middle of it and throw bricks into the next kingdom.†   (source)
  • Yes, King Arthur's.†   (source)
  • IN KING ARTHUR'S COURT.†   (source)
  • Are ye afraid of his power?" continued the artful confident of that Prince, "we acknowledge him a strong and valiant knight; but these are not the days of King Arthur, when a champion could encounter an army.†   (source)
  • He tried to make us act plays and to enter into masquerades, in which the characters were drawn from the heroes of Roncesvalles, of the Round Table of King Arthur, and the chivalrous train who shed their blood to redeem the holy sepulchre from the hands of the infidels.†   (source)
  • "For his own part," he said, "and in the land where he was bred, men would as soon take for their mark King Arthur's round-table, which held sixty knights around it.†   (source)
  • Of the birth of King Arthur and of his nurture.†   (source)
  • What is the cause, said King Arthur, that there be two places void in the sieges?†   (source)
  • So said King Arthur, and so said all those that beheld him.†   (source)
  • But for what cause, said King Arthur, were ye, Sir Tristram, against us?†   (source)
  • Also he asked that knight after Sir Tristram, whether he heard of him in the court of King Arthur.†   (source)
  • Sir, he said, I had it of Queen Morgan le Fay, sister unto King Arthur.†   (source)
  • And then Sir Gawaine wept, and King Arthur wept; and then they swooned both.†   (source)
  • How Sir Tristram smote down Sir Palomides, and how he jousted with King Arthur, and other feats.†   (source)
  • NOW fair sir, said Sir Launcelot, will ye come with me unto the court of King Arthur?†   (source)
  • And then Galahalt rode fast after him, and bade him: Abide, Dinadan, for King Arthur's sake.†   (source)
  • Then King Arthur brought her on her way with mo than an hundred knights through a forest.†   (source)
  • He is neither better nor worse, said the Lady of the Lake, but the noble King Arthur himself.†   (source)
  • MERCY Jesu, said King Arthur, where is Sir Launcelot du Lake that he is not here at this time?†   (source)
  • And if ye be a knight of King Arthur's court remember this tale, for this is the end and conclusion.†   (source)
  • O Jesu, said King Arthur, this is to me a great marvel.†   (source)
  • Well, said King Arthur unto Aries the cowherd, fetch all thy sons afore me that I may see them.†   (source)
  • I will give you leave, said King Arthur; but wit thou well, said King Arthur, I may not be there.†   (source)
  • for in the court of King Arthur may I never come.†   (source)
  • So forthwithal King Arthur set upon them in their lodging.†   (source)
  • So as they rode King Mark asked a knight that he met, where he should find King Arthur.†   (source)
  • When King Arthur saw her he asked her from whence she came and what she would.†   (source)
  • This is well advised, said King Arthur; and so she departed.†   (source)
  • But the sword of the knight smote King Arthur's sword in two pieces, wherefore he was heavy.†   (source)
  • Alas, said Sir Bedivere, that was my lord King Arthur, that here lieth buried in this chapel.†   (source)
  • Then Sir Launcelot spered of men of Dover where was King Arthur become.†   (source)
  • Such one saw I, said King Arthur, that is past two mile; what would ye with the beast?†   (source)
  • How King Arthur, King Ban, and King Bors rescued King Leodegrance, and other incidents.†   (source)
  • How King Arthur pardoned them, and demanded of them where Sir Gareth was.†   (source)
  • CHAPTER I. How Beaumains came to King Arthur's Court and demanded three petitions of King Arthur.†   (source)
  • And the same day he came to Camelot, where lay King Arthur.†   (source)
  • What say ye, said King Arthur unto Sir Launcelot, will ye abide by your proffer?†   (source)
  • And at every tournament he began to make King Arthur to laugh.†   (source)
  • and insomuch as ye be a knight of King Arthur's I require you to do battle for me.†   (source)
  • And then he rode unto Morgan again, and asked if she would anything unto King Arthur.†   (source)
  • So when this battle was done, King Arthur let bury his people that were dead.†   (source)
  • Then was King Arthur ware where Sir Mordred leaned upon his sword among a great heap of dead men.†   (source)
  • Now, fair lady, said King Arthur, what say ye?†   (source)
  • Then, said Sir Tristram unto La Beale Isoud, Madam arise, for here is my lord, King Arthur.†   (source)
  • And when they were unarmed then King Arthur knew Sir Launcelot, Sir Lavaine, and Sir Gareth.†   (source)
  • Fair sir, said King Arthur, what is the cause ye will not tell me your name?†   (source)
  • Be there no bigger knights in the court of King Arthur?†   (source)
  • How Sir Gawaine jousted and smote down Sir Lionel, and how Sir Launcelot horsed King Arthur.†   (source)
  • THEN all the people fell down on their knees and cried King Arthur mercy.†   (source)
  • So God me help, said King Arthur, that same knight with the many colours is a good knight.†   (source)
  • Wherefore King Arthur made the lands to be given again unto them that owned them.†   (source)
  • Then she took her mule, and lightly she came to King Arthur that was but two mile thence.†   (source)
  • How eleven kings gathered a great host against King Arthur.†   (source)
  • Of the first war that King Arthur had, and how he won the field.†   (source)
  • How the kings and lords promised to King Arthur aid and help against the Romans.†   (source)
  • Then was King Arthur wroth with King Mark.†   (source)
  • How Sir Tristram returned against King Arthur's party because he saw Sir Palomides on that party.†   (source)
  • Alas, said King Arthur, let me wit what ye are?†   (source)
  • Ye shall not choose, said King Arthur, for I will command you for to do as we all have done.†   (source)
  • How King Arthur, the Queen, and Launcelot received letters out of Cornwall, and of the answer again.†   (source)
  • And this duke was uncle unto King Arthur.†   (source)
  • And then he shewed Sir Launcelot all his writing, both from the Pope and from King Arthur.†   (source)
  • And ever he was afore King Arthur with that shield.†   (source)
  • Let him be, said King Arthur, he will be better known, and do more, or ever he depart.†   (source)
  • said the squire, ye are greatly to blame for to displease King Arthur.†   (source)
  • With these words came to them King Arthur.†   (source)
  • Sir, said he, be ye of King Arthur's court and of the fellowship of the Round Table?†   (source)
  • Then King Arthur made a great feast to all that would come.†   (source)
  • Alas, said King Arthur, where is that knight become?†   (source)
  • Beware, said King Arthur, for I warn you ye shall find him wight.†   (source)
  • How King Arthur was brought into the Forest Perilous, and how Sir Tristram saved his life.†   (source)
  • And so King Arthur assigned King Carados and the King of Scots to be there that day as judges.†   (source)
  • And on the morn he turned unto Camelot, where he found King Arthur and the queen.†   (source)
  • How King Anguish of Ireland was summoned to come to King Arthur's court for treason.†   (source)
  • But for the shame and dolour he would not ride to King Arthur's court, but rode another way.†   (source)
  • Thus the battle between King Arthur and Lucius the Emperor endured long.†   (source)
  • AND then there came with King Arthur Sir Gawaine, Agravaine, Gaheris, his brethren.†   (source)
  • How Sir Tristram turned to King Arthur's side, and how Palomides would not.†   (source)
  • THE meanwhile Morgan le Fay had weened King Arthur had been dead.†   (source)
  • And then there was neither Sir Tristram nor none of King Arthur's party that knew Sir Palomides.†   (source)
  • How the Damosel of the Lake saved King Arthur from mantle that should have burnt him.†   (source)
  • How King Arthur and Sir Gawaine made a great host ready to go over sea to make war on Sir Launcelot.†   (source)
  • So God me help, said King Arthur, meseemeth yonder is the best jouster that ever I saw.†   (source)
  • These proofs and experiences caused King Arthur to command the queen to the fire there to be brent.†   (source)
  • And there King Arthur brake his spear all to pieces upon Sir Tristram's shield.†   (source)
  • Then King Arthur was ware where sat a knight armed in a chair.†   (source)
  • Now, said King Arthur unto the cow herd, where is the sword he shall be made knight withal?†   (source)
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