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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
tourney .
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Examples
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And behold, Sharrkan and his men charged down upon the Infidels and cut off their retreat and wheeled and tourneyed among the ranks; when lo!
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Thus they tourneyed together, one with an axe and the other with a sword, a long season, and no man to let them.
Chronicle and Romance (The Harvard Classics Series) Thomas Malory Jean Froissart
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For in the country's custom/they tourneyed as they went,
The Nibelungenlied Translated into Rhymed English Verse in the Metre of the Original George Henry Needler 1914
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His rede the heroes followed/and tourneyed in full stately way.
The Nibelungenlied Translated into Rhymed English Verse in the Metre of the Original George Henry Needler 1914
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Thus they tourneyed together, one with an axe and the other with a sword, a long season, and no man to let them.
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And they that hated him affirmed the same, and all they together cried that he had right nobly tourneyed, and some went to him and said that he had taken them.
The Golden Legend, vol. 5 1230-1298 1900
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Three days they tourneyed, but none could withstand Sir Guy's strong arm.
Legends That Every Child Should Know; a Selection of the Great Legends of All Times for Young People Hamilton Wright Mabie 1880
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Sherkan and his men fell upon the infidels and cut off their retreat and tourneyed among the ranks, when lo, a cavalier of goodly presence opened a passage through the army of the Greeks and circled hither and thither amongst them, cutting and thrusting and covering the ground with heads and bodies, so that the infidels feared him and their necks bent under his blows.
The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night, Volume II Anonymous 1879
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And behold, Sharrkan and his men charged down upon the Infidels and cut off their retreat and wheeled and tourneyed among the ranks; when lo!
Arabian nights. English Anonymous 1855
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And Gharib tourneyed right and left among the Kafirs who gave way before him, till he came to King Barkan's pavilion, with Kaylajan and Kurajan on his either hand, and cried out to them, "Loose your lord!"
Arabian nights. English Anonymous 1855
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