Sentence examples for knights of their from inspiring English sources

Yet there's a deep seriousness in every one of these poems, like the plaintive "Midlife Lullaby," in which the cow who is now the meatloaf in somebody's sandwich speaks of life's passing pleasures as hauntingly as one of those skeletons who tend to pop up in medieval allegories to remind young knights of their mortality.

In claiming responsibility for the attack, the Islamic State group issued a statement and audio on jihadi websites applauding the dead gunmen as "knights" for their "blessed invasion of one of the dens of infidels and vice in Muslim Tunisia".

Above the choir stalls hang the insignia of the Knights of the Garter, their swords, helmets, and banners; to the backs of the stalls are affixed their heraldic stall plates, forming a notable assemblage of heraldry from medieval times.

The lances may not look like the ones used by the knights of old, but their tendency to flex on impact makes them quite effective at vaulting competitors off their horses.

Bin Laden himself recited an elegy for the nineteen hijackers of 9/11: "Embracing death, the knights of glory found their rest.

Connecticut in my parents' day was the kind of state in which institutions really mattered — religious congregations and city newspapers and insurance companies, garden clubs and the Knights of Columbus, with their towering headquarters in New Haven.

Conservative talk radio hosts who believe that they are the indomitable knights of righteousness find their nemesis in Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, and especially that arch-bogeyman, her husband Bill.

As the movie eulogized: "Here was the last ever to be seen of Knights and their Ladies Fair, of Master and of Slave.

Before attending to their own comfort, the knights of old cared for their tired horses at the end of the day.

The Scarlet Knights lost five of their first six games, and Schiano and the senior quarterback Mike Teel were heavily criticized.

Political leaders had tended to use the old honours system to make knights and dames of their political friends and allies.