swan-drawn

A knight in shining armour arrives in a swan-drawn boat.

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The story of the Knight of the Swan, or Swan Knight, is a medieval tale about a mysterious rescuer who comes in a swan-drawn boat to defend a damsel, his only condition being that he must never be asked his name.

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Suddenly she heard the melodious strains and a moment later saw the approach of a swan-drawn boat, wherein lay a sleeping knight.

Hero Tales and Legends of the Rhine Lewis Spence 1914

He stands, the stranger, leaning on his sword, in the swan-drawn boat; adorned with that excess of lovely attribute not looked for save in figures of dream or of legend, knightly in one and archangelic, with his flashing silver mail and flowing locks and unearthly beauty.

The Wagnerian Romances Gertrude Hall Brownell 1912

Instead of riding a charger, Lohengrin was conveyed in a swan-drawn skiff to Brabant, where he found Elsa praying for a champion to defend her against Frederick of Telramund's accusation of having slain her little brother, who had mysteriously disappeared.

The Book of the Epic 1894

Then he bade her repair to Nimwegen, and commending her and her daughter to the care of the emperor, he departed thence in a swan-drawn boat and was never seen more.

A Book of Operas Their Histories, Their Plots, and Their Music Henry Edward Krehbiel 1888

Lohengrin who had come in a swan-drawn skiff down the Tiber to save some Italian Elsa?

The Sunny Side of Diplomatic Life, 1875-1912 1886

Venus, in her swan-drawn chariot, had not yet reached Cyprus, when she heard coming up through mid-air the groans of her beloved, and turned her white-winged coursers back to earth.

The Age of Fable Thomas Bulfinch 1831

Venus, in her swan-drawn chariot, had not yet reached Cyprus, when she heard coming up through mid-air the groans of her beloved, and turned her white-winged coursers back to earth.

The Age of Fable Thomas Bulfinch 1831