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  • You can't write A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (1889) without being familiar with Arthurian romances.†   (source)
  • That America now seems as dead and distant as the England of King Arthur.†   (source)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • What's not okay is Old Fart McGuinty sitting at my regular table, with my lady friends, and holding court like King Arthur.†   (source)
  • She waved her hand with a flourish as if she were introducing us to King Arthur's court.†   (source)
  • When Jackie thinks of Camelot, she focuses on the final act of the play, where King Arthur regains his wonder and hope.†   (source)
  • Like with King Arthur.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • Greece is such an area, and those parts of England where King Arthur walked.†   (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)
  • Reading 'King Arthur' and 'The Three Musketeers', and Burroughs wonderful Mars stories—But every kid does that.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • King Arthur was the first king of England, way back when there were still dragons and monsters in the world.†   (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)
  • …(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…†   (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)
  • Ruby, you must be King Arthur and Jane will be Guinevere and Diana must be Lancelot.†   (source)
  • King Arthur had hurried up the army business altogether beyond my calculations.†   (source)
  • Truly, said King Arthur, that knight with the many colors is a good knight.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • And then King Arthur smote Sir Mordred under the shield, with a foin of his spear throughout the body more than a fathom.†   (source)
  • King Arthur's people were not aware that they were indecent and I had presence of mind enough not to mention it.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • CHAPTER II KING ARTHUR'S COURT The moment I got a chance I slipped aside privately and touched an ancient common looking man on the shoulder and said, in an insinuating, confidential way: "Friend, do me a kindness.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • "IN KING ARTHUR'S COURT."†   (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,…†   (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)
  • "Yes, King Arthur's."†   (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)
  • Of the birth of King Arthur and of his nurture.†   (source)
  • Now, said King Arthur unto the cow herd, where is the sword he shall be made knight withal?†   (source)
  • So said King Arthur, and so said all those that beheld him.†   (source)
  • And then there was neither Sir Tristram nor none of King Arthur's party that knew Sir Palomides.†   (source)
  • So these three kings came on King Arthur's party.†   (source)
  • Then shall ye and I do battle together, said King Arthur.†   (source)
  • But for the shame and dolour he would not ride to King Arthur's court, but rode another way.†   (source)
  • And so King Arthur assigned King Carados and the King of Scots to be there that day as judges.†   (source)
  • O Jesu, said King Arthur, I marvel for what cause ye, Sir Launcelot, went out of your mind.†   (source)
  • This is well devised, said King Arthur, and right so shall it be.†   (source)
  • Of what lineage is he come? said King Arthur.†   (source)
  • And then he rode unto Morgan again, and asked if she would anything unto King Arthur.†   (source)
  • and that he meant to have slain King Arthur.†   (source)
  • How King Anguish of Ireland was summoned to come to King Arthur's court for treason.†   (source)
  • Lo, said King Arthur, yonder Palomides beginneth to play his pageant.†   (source)
  • Then was King Arthur wroth out of measure, and so were all the other knights.†   (source)
  • And there King Arthur brake his spear all to pieces upon Sir Tristram's shield.†   (source)
  • THEN all the people fell down on their knees and cried King Arthur mercy.†   (source)
  • And King Arthur took his horse, and said: Alas this unhappy day! and so rode to his party.†   (source)
  • How King Arthur was brought into the Forest Perilous, and how Sir Tristram saved his life.†   (source)
  • Then King Arthur blew the prise and dight the hart.†   (source)
  • And this duke was uncle unto King Arthur.†   (source)
  • And the same day he came to Camelot, where lay King Arthur.†   (source)
  • Now turn we unto King Arthur, and leave we Sir Launcelot in the hermitage.†   (source)
  • When Sir Tristram had heard all their counsel he rode unto King Arthur for to hear of his counsel.†   (source)
  • And then he shewed Sir Launcelot all his writing, both from the Pope and from King Arthur.†   (source)
  • Of the first war that King Arthur had, and how he won the field.†   (source)
  • So Sir Launcelot was with King Arthur, and jousted not the first day.†   (source)
  • Then was Sir Launcelot sent for; and when he was come King Arthur made the letter to be read to him.†   (source)
  • And there they were lodged at the device of King Arthur.†   (source)
  • Ah, traitor untrue, said King Arthur, now hast thou betrayed me twice.†   (source)
  • Then she spake on high to her brother King Arthur: Where have ye done my young son Sir Gareth?†   (source)
  • Such one saw I, said King Arthur, that is past two mile; what would ye with the beast? said Arthur.†   (source)
  • Sir, said King Arthur, he will be known or he depart.†   (source)
  • How eleven kings gathered a great host against King Arthur.†   (source)
  • How King Arthur, King Ban, and King Bors rescued King Leodegrance, and other incidents.†   (source)
  • And then Sir Launcelot brought to King Arthur one of the best of the four horses.†   (source)
  • Of the battle between King Arthur and Accolon.†   (source)
  • So as they rode King Mark asked a knight that he met, where he should find King Arthur.†   (source)
  • And if ye be a knight of King Arthur's court remember this tale, for this is the end and conclusion.†   (source)
  • So God me help, said King Arthur, that same knight with the many colours is a good knight.†   (source)
  • All this espied King Arthur, for his eye went never from him.†   (source)
  • And in the sight of King Arthur he smote down twenty knights, beside Sir Gawaine and his brethren.†   (source)
  • And there was King Arthur wounded on the left side, a great wound and a perilous.†   (source)
  • And then said Sir Gawaine: What will ye do with me? for I am nephew unto King Arthur.†   (source)
  • Well, said Sir Tristram, for King Arthur's sake I shall let you pass as at this time.†   (source)
  • So were there made letters in the pleasant wise according unto King Arthur's desire.†   (source)
  • Sir Knight, said Sir Accolon, I am of the court of King Arthur, and my name is Accolon of Gaul.†   (source)
  • How Sir Gawaine jousted and smote down Sir Lionel, and how Sir Launcelot horsed King Arthur.†   (source)
  • Damosel, said King Mark, will ye ride again and bear letters from me unto King Arthur?†   (source)
  • How a poor man riding upon a lean mare desired King Arthur to make his son knight.†   (source)
  • These proofs and experiences caused King Arthur to command the queen to the fire there to be brent.†   (source)
  • Then King Arthur took Sir Tristram by the hand and went to the Table Round.†   (source)
  • And therewithal King Arthur was wood wroth, and thought to have made him ready to joust.†   (source)
  • I will give you leave, said King Arthur; but wit thou well, said King Arthur, I may not be there.†   (source)
  • WHAT are ye that so complain? said King Arthur.†   (source)
  • Alas! said the squire, ye are greatly to blame for to displease King Arthur.†   (source)
  • Will ye joust and do deeds of arms? said King Arthur.†   (source)
  • What say ye, said King Arthur unto Sir Launcelot, will ye abide by your proffer?†   (source)
  • And when they were unarmed then King Arthur knew Sir Launcelot, Sir Lavaine, and Sir Gareth.†   (source)
  • Then was Sir Launcelot wroth and ashamed, and so therewithal he rode to King Arthur.†   (source)
  • And then they said that Sir Mordred warred upon King Arthur with wrong.†   (source)
  • So he departed and left King Arthur and Sir Ector together.†   (source)
  • Alas, said King Arthur, let me wit what ye are?†   (source)
  • Alas, said King Arthur, where is that knight become?†   (source)
  • And ever he was afore King Arthur with that shield.†   (source)
  • Some of King Arthur's knights jousted with knights of Cornwall.†   (source)
  • Madam, he said, I am a knight of King Arthur's court, and my name is Sir Percivale de Galis.†   (source)
  • AND King Arthur and the two kings let depart the seven hundred knights in two parties.†   (source)
  • How King Pellinore gat the lady and brought her to Camelot to the court of King Arthur.†   (source)
  • And the noble King Arthur encountered with Sir Dinadan, and he smote him quite from his saddle.†   (source)
  • Thus the battle between King Arthur and Lucius the Emperor endured long.†   (source)
  • How Sir Tristram returned against King Arthur's party because he saw Sir Palomides on that party.†   (source)
  • Beware, said King Arthur, for I warn you ye shall find him wight.†   (source)
  • So Sir Lamorak departed and went to the court of King Arthur.†   (source)
  • Wherethrough Merlin's words King Arthur gave him an earldom of lands that fell unto him.†   (source)
  • And this Sir Nabon hated all the knights of King Arthur's, and in no wise he would do them favour.†   (source)
  • But for what cause, said King Arthur, were ye, Sir Tristram, against us?†   (source)
  • And then Galahalt rode fast after him, and bade him: Abide, Dinadan, for King Arthur's sake.†   (source)
  • Then King Arthur made a great feast to all that would come.†   (source)
  • Then was King Arthur sad and wroth, and asked from whence came that damosel.†   (source)
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