He had honour to the full; yet, if he had possessed nothing at all, none that saw him had denied him to be the prowest champion that ever rode a horse. ❋ Margaret [Translator] Armour (N/A)
Word hath reached me in the land of my father, that, hereby thee, dwell the prowest ever sworn to king. ❋ Margaret [Translator] Armour (N/A)
The high-spirited knights of one side challenged the prowest knights of the other, as their predecessors in chivalry had done. ❋ William Francis Dawson (N/A)
This, if you have been tardy on the journey home, will follow close on the heels of the prowest, I believe truest, of knights, and bear perhaps to his quick mind some help to the solution he dropped a hint of seeking. ❋ George Meredith (1868)
Jinn and the prowest of them in wing-flying and horse-manship, and fared on till they drew near the Crescent Mountain. ❋ Anonymous (1855)
Know, O auspicious king and lord of right rede and praiseworthy meed and prowest of deed, that, when the folk heard how the king had put away from him his malpractice and returned from his unrighteous wont, they rejoiced in this with joy exceeding and offered up prayers for him. ❋ Anonymous (1855)
And heading his prowest knights, William came, as a thunderbolt, on the bills and shields. ❋ Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton (1838)
On, to the cry of the Norman warrior; the cry before which have fled so often the prowest Paladins of Burgundy and France -- 'Notre Dame et ❋ Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton (1838)
He was, in fact, one of the "prowest knights" of the whole genealogy -- a fearless horseman and expert spearman, renowned and dreaded; and I suppose I have heard Sir Walter repeat a dozen times, as he was dashing into the Tweed or Ettrick, "rolling red from brae to brae," a stanza from what he called an old ballad, though it was most likely one of his own early imitations: -- ❋ Unknown (1824)
Unequal as seems the encounter, so quick was the spring of the Briton, so pliant his arm, and so rapid his weapon, that that good knight (who rather from skill and valour than brute physical strength, ranked amongst the prowest of William's band of martial brothers) would willingly have preferred to see before him Fitzosborne or Montgommeri, all clad in steel and armed with mace and lance, than parried those dazzling strokes, and fronted the angry majesty of that helmless brow. ❋ Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton (1838)
Before the members of this noble assembly -- all witnesses of thy faith, and all guarantees of mine -- I summon thee to confirm by oath the promises thou mad'st me yesterday; namely, to aid me to obtain the kingdom of England on the death of King Edward, my cousin; to marry my daughter Adeliza; and to send thy sister hither, that I may wed her, as we agreed, to one of my worthiest and prowest counts. ❋ Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton (1838)
7 The prowest knight that ever field did fight, prowest > bravest field > [a] battle; [in the] field of battle ❋ Edmund Spenser (N/A)
Templars yet dreamed of), -- even in that hour of selfish panic rallied round them the prowest chivalry of their countrymen, viz., the Bishop of London and the Archbishop of Canterbury. ❋ Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton (1838)
On, to the cry of the Norman warrior; the cry before which have fled so often the prowest Paladins of Burgundy and France -- 'Notre Dame et Dex aide!'" ❋ Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton (1838)
