battle, clash, contend, engagement, fight a duel, grapple, matching, rassle, scuffle, the thrust and parry, wage war
Definitionn. a sporting competition in which contestants play a series of games to decide the winner
Last update: October 16, 2015
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He is represented as the son of a widow, "la dame veuve," his father having been slain in tourney, battle or by treachery, either immediately before, or shortly after his birth. [Please select]
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Imagine his distress, therefore, when, on arriving at the tourney ground, he discovered that he had forgotten to bring his sword. [Please select]
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Happy over his good fortune, Arthur returned to the tourney ground and gave the new sword to his foster brother. [Please select]
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The heralds then proclaimed silence until the laws of the tourney should be rehearsed. [Please select]
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But all these attempts of the workingmen to tourney a rough world with a needle were foredoomed to failure. [Please select]
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Three days they tourneyed, but none could withstand Sir Guy's strong arm. [Please select]
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In joust and tourney I have adventured as far and as boldly as any man alive. [Please select]
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They have come in the spirit that brought their sisters of old to watch true knights battle in the tourney. [Please select]
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"You don't mean to say," cried his hearer in genuine astonishment, "that Virginia has a lineal descendant of the tourney." [Please select]
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The tourney ground is on this estate, and Damory Court is handier than the Country Club. [Please select]
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"I am fitter to meet death than thou art," answered the Disinherited Knight; for by this name the stranger had recorded himself in the books of the tourney. [Please select]
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