Sentences with knight
knight
K k - He was knighted in the Queen's birthday honours list in June 1988. [be VERB-ed]
- King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table
- In 1925 Asquith accepted a peerage as Earl of Oxford and Asquith and was created a knight of the garter shortly afterwards.
- He would become her knight and devote himself to her service, though his passion for her would rarely be consummated.
- The king knighted the young squire.
- Counts, knights, barons and marquesses gathered in the guilded ballroom of the hotel to mark the focal event of the aristocratic social calendar.
- And although he had always maintained that there was no such thing as a knight in shining armour, he had still come to Julie's rescue readily enough.
- In 1942 he was knighted, no doubt partly due to his heroic service to his country during both wars.
- Maybe a knight in shining armour will come forward to assist half a million pensioners worldwide.
- England's wars, waged successfully by humble bowmen as well as knights and noblemen, created among all ranks a self-confidence that warmed English hearts.
- It began with the hauliers, those mild-mannered knights of the road who would no more dream of driving aggressively than of cancelling their subscription to New Internationalist magazine.
- In theory, knightly honour allowed only two alternatives, death or capture.
- Top tip for Birthday Honours - Timothy West will become a knight of the realm.
- These were made up of ‘feudal’ levies, in which the knight owed service to his lord in return for land.
- Leading the North Yorkshire awards in the Queen's Birthday Honours list, published today, is the county's newest knight, Sir Robert Ogden.
- Usually, a minor knight might hold a few acres from a baron, who in turn held the land from a count or earl, who in turn held large tracts of the king.
- Few castles can boast the historic pedigree of Cathcart, which dates back to the days of Sir Alan Cathcart, a knight who served with Robert the Bruce.
- In chess, if you move your knight on to a pawn's square, the pawn's a goner.
- The knight or Miles was the lowest of the military elite, a well equipped and well trained fighting man similar to the Saxon thegn or huscarl.
- Jerome rubbed his chin, and after a few minutes of thought, moved his knight, capturing Adam's last bishop.
- The next day we see one grandmaster leaving a knight unprotected and another thrusting his pawn to a sure death.
- He was offering himself as my protector, my knight, and it moved me deeply.
- The order became defunct with the death of its last knight, HRH The Duke of Gloucester, in 1974.
- He moved his knight forward and deftly captured one of her pawns.
- The crossbow was really the first hand-held weapon that could be used by an untrained soldier to injure or kill a knight in plate armour.
- In one of Chaucer's earliest poems, The Book of the Duchess, a knight is overheard in the forest lamenting the death of his lady.
- Indeed, the knight is the only chess piece that covers an asymmetrical pattern of squares.
- In other words, the colors red and white seem to represent the knight and his female beloved, respectively.