2) 19. Middle-Ages. Sassoon, Siegfried. 1920. Picture-Show
...Ugly work! thought I, 5 Holding my breath. Men must be cruel and proud, Jousting for death . With gusty glimmering shone The moon; and the wind blew colder. 10 A...

3) list 2. The American HeritageŽ Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000.
...See listel. c. A border or selvage of cloth. 2. A stripe or band of color. 3a. An arena for jousting tournaments or other contests. Often used in the plural. b. A...

4) Bradshaw. The Columbia Gazetteer of North America. 2000
...landowner, reportedly had the aid of a lady who hid him under her hoop skirts. Site of a jousting competition attracting riders from all over the state who spear...

5) Marshall Hall. The Columbia Gazetteer of North America. 2000
...D.C. stop here daily most of the year and at Mt. Vernon on the other side of the river. A jousting (Md. state sport) tournament is held here every Aug., as knights...

6) Chapter VI. The Thirteenth Book. How King Arthur Had All the Knights Together for to Joust in the Meadow beside Camelot or They Departed. Malory, Sir Thomas. 1909-14. The Holy Grail. The Harvard Classics
...and at the king s request they accorded all, and took on their harness that longed unto jousting. But all this moving of the king was for this intent, for to see...

7) Poliziano, Angelo. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...works are the charming Stanze per la giostra, which is classical in tone, celebrating the jousting prowess of Lorenzo's brother Giuliano, and Orfeo (1475, tr. 1929,...

8) Baltimore. The Columbia Gazetteer of North America. 2000
...Towson) in dist. known for horse racing (especially cross-country races), fox hunting, and jousting tournaments. Ballestone Mus. (c.1780) at the Rocky Point Golf...

9) § 57. careen / career. 3. Word Choice. The American Heritage Book of English Usage. 1996
...a course. In the verb s first recorded usage, the course was the lane for each horse at a jousting tournament. But the kinds of courses and agents of motion soon...

10) 33. The Fifty-First Dragon by Heywood Broun. Morley, Christopher, ed. 1921. Modern Essays
...his instructors soon discovered that he lacked spirit. He would hide in the woods when the jousting class was called, although his companions and members of the faculty...