Sentence examples for trial by combat from inspiring English sources

Can Tyrion play the trial by combat card twice?

A braver government would allow the return of trial by combat between consenting adults.

Trial by combat and trial by ordeal place judgment in the hands of God.

It is a formal trial by combat, and when it works, it puts a quick and tidy end to conflict.

A popular fan theory has it that Cersei will blow up King's Landing rather than face trial, now that her son has outlawed trial by combat.

A growing sense of unease and despair culminated in Tyrion's magnificent outburst – "Yes, I am guilty, guilty of being a dwarf" – and the demand for trial by combat.

Given that episode eight, which airs next week, promises flamboyant Dornish prince Oberyn Martell and mountainous killing machine Gregor Clegane battling it out in trial-by-combat for Tyrion's life, it's difficult to imagine how bloody episode nine – directed by Game of Thrones's go-to action guy and horror king, Neil Marshall – is going to be.

You would have thought that having two women competing for the job would have gone down well with the Tory cabinet, rekindling fond childhood memories of the trial-by-combat phase of their nanny selections, but May was seen as the safer pair of hooves.

While winter is inevitably coming, you can almost feel the heat of the sunshine on Dorne, the family home of Oberyn Martell – Tyrion Lannister's champion who eye-poppingly died in trial-by-combat – and on Braavos, to where Arya Stark has travelled.

She may not be able to use the zombie Mountain as she'd planned to trial-by-combat her way to freedom, but I can't see her going down without a fight.

Despite these records, the event entered many historical texts as an example of a great miscarriage of justice which therefore brought the tradition of trial-by-combat to an end.