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- verb Present participle of
tourney .
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Examples
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Now Sharrkan tare through rank and row and raged among the masses of the foe, fighting so fierce a fight as to make children grey grow; nor did he cease tourneying among the infidel horde and working havoc among them with the keen edged sword, shouting “Allaho Akbar!”
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How Sir Tristram and his fellowship jousted, and of the noble feats that they did in that tourneying.
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How Sir Uwaine rode with the damosel of sixty year of age, and how he gat the prize at tourneying.
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Then was there great jousts and great tourneying, and many lords and ladies were at that feast, and Sir Tristram was most praised of all other.
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How Sir Tristram and his fellowship jousted, and of the noble feats that they did in that tourneying.
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How Sir Uwaine rode with the damosel of sixty year of age, and how he gat the prize at tourneying.
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And when the Cid began to war upon the town, and sent parties against it twice and thrice a day, as ye have heard, for the Cid was alway upon the alert, there was fighting and tourneying every day.
Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 4 Charles Herbert Sylvester
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Attended by his teams of elegant horses, and surrounded by a general halo of gambling, racing, tourneying and cock-fighting, he seems to shake his lank hair sadly over the poor modern carnival, and say, "Their tameness is shocking to me."
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 12, No. 31, October, 1873 Various
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When the Cid began to war upon the town, and sent parties against it twice and thrice a day, for the Cid was alway upon the alert, there was fighting and tourneying every day.
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There were great jousts and tourneying at that time in Cornwall, and
Stories of King Arthur and His Knights Retold from Malory's "Morte dArthur" U. Waldo Cutler
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