Word: parfit
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...Ivanhoe, Robert Taylor makes a parfit gentle knight and troubadour, while Elizabeth Taylor and Joan Fontaine are the very models of ladies fair. Supporting them are some polished character actors: Emlyn Williams as Ivanhoe's faithful Squire Wamba, Finlay Currie as Ivanhoe's father Cedric, Felix Aylmer as the patriarchal Isaac of York, father of Rebecca, and a whole host of Normans and Saxons, knights and squires, lords and ladies and kings and commoners from the days when knighthood was in flower...
...world's, that there are no branches of Harvard's Michael Mullins Chowder and Marching Club in Germany. We do not know the life history of the estimable Michael, but we suspect him of having combined the best qualities of a bellicose pacifist with those of a "parfit gentil knight." Hence his devotees, with equal catholicity, carried to the pacifist students' meeting in the Harvard Yard last week banners bearing the slogans: "Down with war!" and "Down with peace!" To every attack on Harvard's R.O.T.C. a bugler of the Michael Mullins Chowder and Marching Club blew a shrill blast...
...will knave-r do, Sid, I have four queens more beautiful than day, - that remind me of my Beatrice - ah! Beatrice - Corpo di Venus! but she loved -" "Dry up," said the English poet. "I have four veray parfit gentil kings, - cela appropriates le gateau...