valours

“An six hundred crowns,” said Isaac, “the good Prior might well pay to your honoured valours, and never sit less soft in his stall.”

Ivanhoe 2004

“Would it but please your valours,” added Isaac, in a tone of deep humiliation,

Ivanhoe 2004

It seemed, he fancied, something like a symbol of a life -- with all the qualities there, the sweetness, the affection, the passion, the divine despair, the longing, even the valours and the faiths to make a great accomplishment, but yet lacking the round accomplishment.

Doom Castle Neil Munro

He held that these stubborn sorrows and obscure valours might, to use a yet more strange expression, have provoked the envy of the Almighty.

Robert Browning 1905

Kit closed them; and the action cost him more than all his valours of the day before.

The Gentleman A Romance of the Sea Alfred Ollivant 1900

The great choir of the ascetic martyrs, adorned with the valours of asceticism, sheweth to-day the members of all the divine choirs lauding and together with themselves hymning Christ: Bless the Lord, all ye the works of the Lord.

The General Menaion or the Book of Services Common to the Festivals of our Lord Jesus of the Holy Virgin and of Different Orders of Saints Anonymous 1899

` ` Would it but please your valours, '' added Isaac, in a tone of deep humiliation,

Ivanhoe 1892

Prior might well pay to your honoured valours, and never sit less soft in his stall. ''

Ivanhoe 1892

"I know well," saith Messire Gawain, "that all the valours and all the cleannesses that ought to be in a knight are in him, and therefore am I the more sorrowful that I am not of them that he knoweth, for a man is worth the more that hath acquaintance with a good knight."

The High History of the Holy Graal Anonymous 1869

"Would it but please your valours," added Isaac, in a tone of deep humiliation, "to permit the poor Jews to travel under your safeguard, I swear by the tables of our law, that never has favour been conferred upon a child of Israel since the days of our captivity, which shall be more gratefully acknowledged."

Ivanhoe. A Romance 1819