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Anon a monk led him behind an altar where the shield hung as white as any snow, but in the middes was a red cross.
Chronicle and Romance (The Harvard Classics Series) Thomas Malory Jean Froissart
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Anon a monk led him behind an altar where the shield hung as white as any snow, but in the middes was a red cross.
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A tapestry set depicting "a king riding in a chariott in a blewe gowne with starres" was likely the Alexander tapestry listed in her 1523 inventory. 157 The Inventory described the 1547 tapestry set as depicting a "fier in the middes," which separated two portrayals of a woman in the clouds.
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Toward the weast it is hilly, in the middes grauell and sande, and on the easte waste and deserte.
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Furthermore thei woulde that ther should be a pulpite in the middes of the churche, wherein the prieste maye stonde vpon Sondaies and holidayes, to teache the people those thinges that it behoueth them to knowe.
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In the middes thei make a round windowe that giueth them lighte, and letteth out the smoke.
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In the middes of the Tent, is their fire, aboute the whiche their wife and their children doe sitte.
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The courte beyng set and begunne, and the tablet of Truthe by the Chauncellour laied furthe, and theight bookes of their lawes (for so many had thei) brought furth into the middes emong them: it was the maner for the plaintife to putte into writyng the whole circumstance of his case, and the maner of the wrong doone vnto him, or how muche he estemed himself to be endamaged thereby.
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When they haue matier of moste importaunce to common of, thei debate and conclude in the middes of their cuppes: thinkyng it muche surer that is so determined, then aftre any other sobrer sorte.
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And because the mounteigne Imaus, ronnyng along as the countrie coasteth, deuides it in the middes into two haulues: the one haulfe is called Scithia within Imaus, and the other without (as ye would saie) on this side the Mounte, and beyonde.
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"Then King Bagdemagus asked where the adventurous shield was. Anon a monk led him behind an altar where the shield hung as white as any snow, but in the middes was a red cross."
- Thomas Malory, 'The Holy Grail'.
September 8, 2009