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The pride and might and vivid strength of things still fluttered their uneasy flags of spirit, moved disherited wings!
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So there were in the country two knights that were brethren, and they were called two perilous knights, the one knight hight Sir Edward of the Red Castle, and the other Sir Hue of the Red Castle; and these two brethren had disherited the Lady of the Rock of a barony of lands by their extortion.
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And for that I know that thou art a good knight, I beseech you to help me; and for ye be a fellow of the Round Table, wherefore ye ought not to fail no gentlewoman which is disherited, an she besought you of help.
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And then he would not suffer me to be any longer in his company, and so drove me from mine heritage, and so disherited me, and he had never pity of me nor of none of my council, nor of my court.
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And so by fortune tidings came unto a worthy man that hight Mondrames, and he assembled all his people for the great renown he had heard of Joseph; and so he came into the land of Great Britain and disherited this felon paynim and consumed him, and therewith delivered Joseph out of prison.
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Damosel, said Sir Percivale, who hath disherited you? for I have great pity of you.
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Then she made sorrow and said: Ah, Lord God, wherefore granted ye to hold my land, whereof I should now be disherited without reason and right?
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I am, said she, a gentlewoman that am disherited, which was sometime the richest woman of the world.
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And for that I know that thou art a good knight, I beseech you to help me; and for ye be a fellow of the Round Table, wherefore ye ought not to fail no gentlewoman which is disherited, an she besought you of help.
Chronicle and Romance (The Harvard Classics Series) Thomas Malory Jean Froissart
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I am, said she, a gentlewoman that am disherited, which was sometime the richest woman of the world.
Chronicle and Romance (The Harvard Classics Series) Thomas Malory Jean Froissart
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