Men of IronIn Fifteenth Century England, Miles, the son of a nobleman who had been deprived of his land when Henry the IV came to the throne, was sent to the castle of his father's friend to get his training in knighthood. Here he has his troubles with the other boys in training, finally wins his spurs, goes on a crusade, and at the end, fights his father's enemy in a trial by combat, wins not only the tournament, but a bride as well. |
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Page 249 - As Myles took his place at the south end of the lists, he found the Sieur de la Montaigne already at his station. Through the peep-hole in the face of the huge helmet, a transverse slit known as the occularium, he could see, like a strange narrow picture, the farther end of the lists, the spectators upon either side moving and shifting with ceaseless restlessness, and in the...
Page 190 - ... yellow, and silky. His eyes were as blue as steel, and quick and sharp in glance as those of a hawk ; and as he walked, his arms swung from his broad, square shoulders, and his body swayed with pentup strength ready for action at any moment.
Page 216 - ... firmly, anchoring his story to historical happenings in his introduction, building on such a solid background of time and place that his further intrusions into the story are justifiable buttressings of fact: A quaint old book treating of knighthood and chivalry gives a full and detailed account of all the circumstances of the ceremony of a creation of a Knight of the Bath. It tells us that the candidate was first placed. . . And on he goes for several pages of exposition which is not only palatable...
Page 266 - The warfare, the blood, the evil pleasures which he had seen had been a fiery, crucible test to his soul, and I love my hero that he should have come forth from it so well. He was no longer the innocent Sir Galahad who had walked in pure white up the Long Hall to be knighted by the King, but his soul was of that grim, sterling, rugged sort that looked out calmly from his gray...
Page 250 - There was a moment of dead, tense, breathless pause, then he rather felt than saw the Marshal raise his baton. He gathered himself together, and the next moment a bugle sounded loud and clear. In one blinding rush he drove his spurs into the sides of his horse, and in instant answer felt the noble steed spring forward with a bound.