 | 1820 - 590 pages
...his courage and gallantry secured the .general good wishes of the spectators. — The trumpets hud no sooner given the signal, than the champions vanished from their posts .with the speed 6? lighming, and closed in the centre of the lists with the shock of a thunderbott. The lances burst... | |
 | Walter Scott - Anglo-Saxons - 1820 - 356 pages
...Disinherited Knight, yet his courage and gallantry secured the general good wishes of the spectators. The trumpets had no sooner given the signal, than...centre of the lists with the shock of a thunderbolt. The lances burst into shivers up to the very grasp, and it seemed at the moment that both knights had... | |
 | david william - 1820 - 564 pages
...Disinherited Knight ; yet his courage and gallantry secured the general good wishes of the spectators. — The trumpets had no sooner given the signal, than the champions vanished from their posts with the spued •of lightning, and closed in the centre of the lists with the shock of a thunderbolt. The lances... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart [novels, collected]) - 1822 - 550 pages
...yet his courage and gallantry secured the general good wishes of the spectators. The trumpets had HO sooner given the signal, than the champions vanished...centre of the lists with the shock of a thunder-bolt. The lances burst into shivers up to the very grasp, and it seemed at the moment that both knights had... | |
 | William Brittainham Lacey - Elocution - 1828 - 308 pages
...Disinherited Knight, yet his courage and gallantry secured the general good wishes of the spectators. The trumpets had no sooner given the signal than the...centre of the lists with the shock of a thunderbolt. The lances burst into shivers up to the very grasp, and it seemed at the moment that both knights had... | |
 | Walter Scott - English literature - 1833 - 852 pages
...Knight, yet his courage and gallantry secured the general good wishes of the spectators. [ClIAP. IX. The trumpets had no sooner given the signal, than...centre of the lists with the shock of a thunderbolt. The lances burst into shivers up to the very grasp, and it seemed at the moment mat both knights had... | |
 | Jonathan Barber - Oratory - 1836 - 404 pages
...Disinherited Knight; yet his courage and gallantry secured the general good wishes of the spectators. The trumpets had no sooner given the signal, than...posts with the speed of lightning, and closed in the center of the lists with the shock of a tliunIn this second encounter, the Templar aimed at the center... | |
 | Pierre François Merlet - French language - 1837 - 314 pages
...Disinherited Knight ; yet his courage and gallantry secured the general good wishes of the spectators. The trumpets had no sooner given the signal, than...centre of the lists with the shock of a thunder-bolt. The lances burst into shivers up to the very grasp, and it seemed at the moment that the knight had... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1853 - 410 pages
...general good wishes of the spectators. The trumpets had no sooner given the signal, than the cham« pions vanished from their posts with the speed of lightning,...centre of the lists with the shock of a thunderbolt. The lances burst into shivers up to the very grasp, and it seemc'l at the moment that both knights... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1844 - 748 pages
...Disinherited Knight, yet his courage and gallantry secured the general good wishes of the spectators. The trumpets had no sooner given the signal, than...centre of the lists with the shock of a thunderbolt. The lances burst into shivers up to the very grasp, and it seemed at the moment that both knights had... | |
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The trumpets had no sooner given the signal, than the champions vanished from their posts with the speed of lightning, and closed in the centre of the lists with the shock of a thunderbolt. 
