At that the Knights of the Round Table withdrew themselves as well as they were able.
— from The Legends of King Arthur and His Knights by Knowles, James, Sir
Speaking with a very intimate knowledge of the relations throughout the war between the British, the American, and the other Allied Treasuries, I believe this to be an act of generosity for which Europe can fairly ask, provided Europe is making an honorable attempt in other directions, not to continue war, economic or otherwise, but to achieve the economic reconstitution of the whole Continent, The financial sacrifices of the United States have been, in proportion to her wealth, immensely less than those of the European States.
— from The Economic Consequences of the Peace by John Maynard Keynes
How the Knights of the Round Table were ordained and their sieges blessed by the Bishop of Canterbury.
— from Le Morte d'Arthur: Volume 1 by Malory, Thomas, Sir
Then the king counted all who had taken the adventure on themselves, and found them a hundred and fifty knights of the Round Table; and so they all put on their helms, and rode away together in the midst of cries and lamentations from the court, and from the ladies, and from all the town.
— from The Legends of King Arthur and His Knights by Knowles, James, Sir
Then came fifteen Knights of the Round Table and beat back the Kings of Northumberland and North Wales with their knights.
— from The Legends of King Arthur and His Knights by Knowles, James, Sir
"You remind me so much of those Knights of the Round Table in the 'Idylls of the King'."
— from Right Ho, Jeeves by P. G. (Pelham Grenville) Wodehouse
Sir, said Sir Dinas, I am full loath to have ado with any knight of the Round Table.
— from Le Morte d'Arthur: Volume 1 by Malory, Thomas, Sir
All the Knights of the Round Table were poor day-labourers, employed to row over the rivers of Cocytus, Phlegeton, Styx, Acheron, and Lethe, when my lords the devils had a mind to recreate themselves upon the water, as in the like occasion are hired the boatmen at Lyons, the gondoliers of Venice, and oars at London.
— from Gargantua and Pantagruel by François Rabelais
And Tristram cried out after him, “Aha! Sir knight of the Round Table, dost thou withdraw thee from so young a knight?
— from The Legends of King Arthur and His Knights by Knowles, James, Sir
The only way that I know of to remedy this, is to propose some Person of great Ability that way as a Pattern for them; Example being most effectual to convince the Learned, as well as instruct the Ignorant.
— from The Spectator, Volume 1 Eighteenth-Century Periodical Essays by Steele, Richard, Sir
Among these is the Austrian eagle quartered with the lion of Bohemia, reminding us that Richard, Earl of Cornwall, brother of Henry III, and lord of Rougemont Castle, Exeter, was about 1260 elected King of the Romans, thus associating Exeter with the highest secular honour then known to Europe.
— from Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Exeter A Description of Its Fabric and a Brief History of the Episcopal See by Percy Addleshaw
Italy total: 19,459 km standard gauge: 18,037 km 1.435-m gauge (11,354 km electrified) narrow gauge: 123 km 1.000-m gauge (122 km electrified); 1,299 km 0.950-m gauge (161 km electrified) (2005) Jamaica total: 272 km standard gauge: 272 km 1.435-m gauge note: 207 of these km belonging to the Jamaica Railway Corporation had been in common carrier service until 1992 but are no longer operational; 57 km of the remaining track is privately owned and used by ALCAN to transport bauxite (2003) Japan total: 23,556 km standard gauge: 3,204 km 1.435-m gauge (3,204 km electrified)
— from The 2007 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency
Mallory's (Sir Thomas) Mort d'Arthur: The Stories of King Arthur and of the Knights of the Round Table.
— from The Evolutionist at Large by Grant Allen
Pri´amus ( Sir ), a knight of the Round Table.
— from Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama, Vol. 3 A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook by Ebenezer Cobham Brewer
Ereck , a knight of the Round Table.
— from Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama, Vol. 1 A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook by Ebenezer Cobham Brewer
We used, as children, to try and realise the features of the scenes of which he spoke—the great Mesopotamian deserts, the encampments of the Arabs, the khans on the roads to the highlands in which the traveller rested, the mountains and the snow-clad plains.
— from Armenia, Travels and Studies (Volume 2 of 2) The Turkish Provinces by H. F. B. (Harry Finnis Blosse) Lynch
It reminds me of the ballads about King Arthur's Knights of the Round Table." "Which?
— from Mrs. Geoffrey by Duchess
Of the native magistrates the chief were the keeper of the records, the police judge, the prefect of the night, and the Exegetes , or interpreter of the Egyptian law, who was allowed to wear a purple robe like a Roman magistrate.
— from History of Egypt From 330 B.C. To the Present Time, Volume 11 (of 12) by A. S. (Angelo Solomon) Rappoport
That shall I never, said Bagdemagus, till men speak of me great worship, and that I be worthy to be a knight of the Round Table.
— from Le Morte d'Arthur: Volume 1 by Malory, Thomas, Sir
And though the king marvelled, seeing he was a man of great renown, and a knight of the Round Table, he granted him all his asking.
— from The Legends of King Arthur and His Knights by Knowles, James, Sir
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