Word: knightes
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Maine's Plumed Knight (by Chance or Magnetism, out of Order - dam Extraordinary Boom) . . . 3 The rest distanced...
Passing by the cages of foreign birds, French, Italian, German, and Chinese, - for the most part mocking-birds, - we next see the procession of mediaeval knights, mounted on hobby-horses. Each rider recited his particular speech over and over again, and paid no attention to what any one else said. An aged knight, tastefully dressed in the garb of a scholastic philosopher, led the van. By a happy arrangement of the managers, a corps of Freshmen on ponies appropriately followed at a short interval...
GAIETY THEATRE. - 8 P.M.; Matinee, Saturday at 2. To-night and to-morrow, last performances of the "Spectre Knight," and "Charity Begins at Home," two pleasant little pieces, which are well worth seeing, especially the second. Mr. Bell, as Joe, is very amusing. This theatre brings its season to a close this week...
...knight so young...
Clear blue eyes, shimmering golden hair, a perfect Marguerite. How trustful and confiding she was! We used to talk poetry by the hour, and once, as I ventured like a true knight to claim the winsome lady's glove, she blushed, - a blush like the soft pink on the petals of an apple-blossom, - and shook her head; but as she passed me that night in the corridor, she dropped this little glove into my hand, and - well - she went away the next day, and -" He told me once, by the way, that she married a wealthy pork-packer...