Suddenly Christopher Robin began to tell Pooh about some of the things: People called Kings and Queens and something called Factors, and a place called Europe, and an island in the middle of the sea where no ships came, and how you make a Suction Pump (if you want to), and when Knights were Knighted, and what comes from Brazil.
Strong and cheerful words that all liked to hear and many heartily believed, especially the young Templars, whose boyish fancies were won by the idea of fighting as knights of old did in the famous crusades they read about in their splendid new young folks' edition of Froissart.
As it is, we are reduced to ask services of knights and squires, who do not seem to offer them with great alacrity.
With its jagged outline it is like a Monseratt of the Pacific, and you may imagine that there Polynesian knights guard with strange rites mysteries unholy for men to know.
When her knights came riding to the Blue Castle, Valancy had sent them on many a quest, but she had never asked any of them to get her salt codfish.
She agreed to answer his question, but he'd have to accept her price; the old witch wanted to marry Gawain, the most noble of the Knights of the Round table and Arthur's closest friend!
"Percival" was one of King Arthur's Knights of the Round Table.
three hundred strong, a pride of bannermen and knights, of sworn swords and freeriders.
Somewhere beyond the sunset, across the narrow sea, , lay a land of green hills and flowered plains and great rushing rivers, ,,, where towers of dark stone rose amidst magnificent blue-grey mountains, , and armored knights rode to battle beneath the banners of their lords.
" "I should think a hundred knights, at the least, with all their retainers, and half again as many freeriders.
Matthew,' the legend of King Arthur and the knights of the Round Table.
There he would explain that what had happened to Eustace was a striking illustration of the turn of Fortune's wheel, and that if he had Eustace at his own house in Narnia (it was really a hole not a house and the dragon's head, let alone his body, would not have fitted in) he could show him more than a hundred examples of emperors, kings, dukes, knights, poets, lovers, astronomers, philosophers, and magicians, who had fallen from prosperity into the most distressing circumstances, and of whom ma
Pupil: Because there were so many knights!
" They took him off to show him silver kitchens, where silver chickens roasted over silver fires, and silver gardens where silver peacocks spread their tails The boy picked a little bunch of silver flowers and stuck them in his hat That night he gave them to the king's daughter when she asked for them The third day, he crushed the third head and found a gold key He slipped the key into the lock and entered a solid gold palace, where his servents were gold too, from wig to boots; the beds were
Aristophanes (450 BC - 388 BC), Knights, 424 B.
" On hearing these words Prince Bahman and Prince Perviz understood all they owed their sister, and the knights who stood by declared themselves her slaves and ready to carry out her wishes.
His mother told him stories, and taught him to read an old book of tales about knights which she found in the cave.
" When the day came, the youth galloped to the spot, took his place amongst the knights, and was recognized by no one.
When the sorceress perceived that, she sent her mailed knights, but the listener heard the rattling of their armor, and undid the bandage from one eye of sharp-eyes, who looked for a while rather fixedly at the enemy's troops, on which they all sprang to pieces like glass.
Ah, replied the host, so many knights have tried it, but it has cost all of them their lives.
