tilting-ground

Moreover, the Governor used to go down with him to the tilting-ground and assemble horsemen and teach the lad the fashion of fight and fray, and the place to plant lance-thrust and sabre-stroke; so that by the time he was fourteen years old, he became a valiant wight and accomplished knight and gained the rank of Emir.

The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

Who cannot recall the sweet illusions of those tripping youthful years, when, for the first time, Sir William Wallace strode so gallantly with waving plume and glittering falchion down the pages of Miss Porter, -- when sweet Helen Mar wasted herself in love for the hero, -- when the sun-browned Ivanhoe dashed so grandly into that famous tilting-ground near to

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 100, February, 1866 Various

And the horn was sounded, and men came in from the tilting-ground and the play-field, and washed, and the king and all his household sat down to dinner.

King Arthur's Knights The Tales Re-told for Boys & Girls Henry Gilbert

Therewith King Arthur made young Lancelot knight, and men eagerly rushed away to the tilting-ground to see the battle between the virgin knight, Sir Lancelot, and the old robber knight, Sir Caradoc.

King Arthur's Knights The Tales Re-told for Boys & Girls Henry Gilbert

Amidst the sorrowing people, with women crying and men muttering and looking darkly at the knights about her, the queen was led to the tilting-ground beyond the northern wall, and in the midst thereof was a stake.

King Arthur's Knights The Tales Re-told for Boys & Girls Henry Gilbert

THE Bordeaux lists were, as has already been explained, situated upon the plain near the river upon those great occasions when the tilting-ground in front of the Abbey of St. Andrew's was deemed to be too small to contain the crowd.

The White Company Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir, 1859-1930 1902

THE Bordeaux lists were, as has already been explained, situated upon the plain near the river upon those great occasions when the tilting-ground in front of the Abbey of St. Andrew's was deemed to be too small to contain the crowd.

The White Company Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir, 1859-1930 1902

The Bordeaux lists were, as has already been explained, situated upon the plain near the river upon those great occasions when the tilting-ground in front of the Abbey of St. Andrew's was deemed to be too small to contain the crowd.

The White Company Arthur Conan Doyle 1894

On the tilting-ground of the castle the fishermen had gathered, sixteen hundred strong.

The Manxman A Novel - 1895 Hall Caine 1892

Many castles have, like that at Carisbrooke, a tilting-ground within the walls; but great and important tournaments were held outside the castle.

English Villages 1892