knightliest

We accept the steed and we give him back to thee as a gift, for to him thou hast more right than any wight, being knightliest of knights.

The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

And by strong, I mean, not one so hale of body as to tower above the stoutest of the soldiery themselves; no, nor him whose skill to hurl a javelin or shoot an arrow will outshine the skilfullest; nor yet that mounted on the fleetest charger it shall be his to bear the brunt of danger foremost amid the knightliest horsemen, the nimblest of light infantry.

Oeconomicus 2007

This knightliest of all knights, and cast thee back

Idylls of the King 2004

Great in action as by the council board, the finest horseman and knightliest figure of his time, he seemed designed by nature to lead in those bold strokes which needs must come when the battle lies with a single man -- those critical moments of the campaign or the strife when, if the mind hesitates or a nerve flinches, all is lost.

America First Patriotic Readings Jasper Leonidas McBrien

Seabury, as, taking up the burden laid on him, he set forth on his quest -- nobler than the knightliest of olden times -- for that sacred

Report of Commemorative Services with the Sermons and Addresses at the Seabury Centenary, 1883-1885. Diocese Of Connecticut

Often when I read therein of how Arthur the king bade farewell to the world and to the last of the great company of his Knights of the Round Table, this scene at Whitehall slip [Washington’s farewell to his officers] comes back to me, and I seem to see once more those gallant soldiers, and far away the tall figure of surely the knightliest gentleman our days have known.

Chapter 10. Reaction and Progress. Section I. Toward the Right: Rococo Romance 1921

In the nature of things, the long delay might well have cooled the knightliest ardor.

The Clarion Samuel Hopkins Adams 1914

Stoke D'Abernon church contains one of the great possessions of Surrey -- the oldest brass in England -- a monument which, besides being the oldest of its kind, is the very knightliest memorial an English gentleman could have.

Highways and Byways in Surrey Eric Parker 1912

Mordecai was one of the knightliest gentlemen that ever lived on this earth.

Some reminiscences, 1909

One of the knightliest soldiers of the Federal army, General Joshua L. Chamberlain of Maine, who afterward served with distinction as governor of his State, called his troops into line, and as my men marched in front of them, the veterans in blue gave a soldierly salute to those vanquished heroes -- a token of respect from

Reminiscences of the Civil War 1904