Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun In Arthurian legend, a seat at King Arthur's Round Table kept for the knight destined to find the Holy Grail and fatal for any other occupant.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the legendary seat at King Arthur's Round Table reserved for the knight who would find the Holy Grail; it was fatal for anyone else to sit in it
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Examples
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And the Siege Perilous shows up, and the last time I saw that, Donald Pierce was crushing it so that none of the X-Men could ever come back.
What I bought – 14 May 2008 | Comics Should Be Good! @ Comic Book Resources 2008
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And the Siege Perilous shows up, and the last time I saw that, Donald Pierce was crushing it so that none of the X-Men could ever come back.
What I bought – 14 May 2008 | Comics Should Be Good! @ Comic Book Resources 2008
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Though this story has a lot of cute elements, the fact that the chair, Siege Perilous speaks in rhyme and tells the truth about individuals who sit in it reminds me a great deal of the Sorting Hat from the Harry Potter tales.
Archive 2007-12-01 tanita davis 2007
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 The Siege Perilous doesn't kill a person, but it does wipe their memories and recycle them back into the world.
Which is your favorite X-Men Era? | Comics Should Be Good! @ Comic Book Resources 2007
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Merlin alights from Siege Perilous -- one of the chair from the Round Table -- and is startled to discover he's been asleep for 1500 years.
The WritingYA Weblog: Merlin Revisited: The Seventh Chair tanita davis 2007
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Merlin alights from Siege Perilous -- one of the chair from the Round Table -- and is startled to discover he's been asleep for 1500 years.
Archive 2007-12-01 tanita davis 2007
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Though this story has a lot of cute elements, the fact that the chair, Siege Perilous speaks in rhyme and tells the truth about individuals who sit in it reminds me a great deal of the Sorting Hat from the Harry Potter tales.
The WritingYA Weblog: Merlin Revisited: The Seventh Chair tanita davis 2007
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Also, if you want to try to relive current UO like it kidna was, why not play on Siege Perilous?
Ultima Online R.I.P. 2004
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Then wot I, said the hermit, for he that shall sit there is unborn and ungotten, and this same year he shall be gotten that shall sit there in that Siege Perilous, and he shall win the Sangreal.
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And thus they went so long till that they came to the Siege Perilous, where they found letters newly written of gold which said: Four hundred winters and four and fifty accomplished after the passion of our Lord Jesu Christ ought this siege to be fulfilled.
bilby commented on the word Siege Perilous
Need to work out how to set phasers to this.
May 27, 2018