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How to use jousts in a sentence

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It speaks of jousts, tournaments, wizards, falconry, enchantresses, damsels in distress, wars, quests, and the code of chivalry.
Starting at 7pm, as the animations of jousts was happening on the swimming area, musical animations started.
The ancient epic had its counterpart in athletic contests just as the medieval romance had its counterpart in jousts and tournaments between knights.
Its own characteristic is mainly represented in demonstrations such as banners, challenges, jousts and historical courtships.
We must not forget to mention also that there were many disputes contested during football jousts, but all in good fun and good sportsmanship.
An economist and a wily tactician, Mr Salmond can be expected to bring plenty of intelligence to these jousts.
Along with their other accessories, the warriors' elaborate dress suggests that they brought both wealth and pageantry to combat, which Donnan likens to medieval jousts.
Under the Third Reich, none of these elements existed, nor did jousts between knights clad in armour of different colours, let alone the victory of the lightest-coloured.
Their aim is to enable the general public to see nautical jousts up close, with the organisers favouring race zones immediately next to the coast, or even within the very heart of the selected towns.
The origins of heraldry lie in the need to distinguish participants in battles or jousts, whose faces were hidden by iron, and later steel, helmets.
Later, as champions were expensive to feed and train, they got agreement that problems could be solved through jousts in which the champions used padded lances.
Easy Ride is recommended for the solidification of covered and uncovered riding grounds, for stabilising the ground in free stalls, covered riding arenas, dressage riding arenas, paddocks and jousts for horses.
Church leaders frequently tried to place restrictions on jousts and tournaments, which at times ended in the death of the loser.
He is a superb teller of a tale, a reveller in dodgy deeds, a keen observer of the febrile, dissimulating characters of court and embassy, and a splendid limner of the great jousts and entertainments of the age.
The sympathetic pair Bouquet-Lavoine caught up in jousts that are sparkling and lively, is made even more dynamic by the zaniness of Florence Foresti.
Watching over your stove beats anything closer to hand: in two places at once, He'd rather listen to the ticks of the oven preheating that sit through jousts or another spit roast.
The twice-weekly jousts between the prime minister and the opposition leader in the Commons mean that both have had years of practice in the art of the sound-bite.
While the knights were engaging in their jousts and looking around for maidens in distress to save, something much more important was happening in the shops and counting-houses of medieval cities.
Kings Edward I and Edward III used the park for jousts and tournaments and the latter had his Royal stud there to supply horses for the Hundred Years' War.
Examples from Classical Literature
Has he not spoken of the festas and the jousts, and the rare encounters that in Naples greeted primavera?
He possessed great personal strength, was expert in all manly exercises, and shone especially at the jousts and the manege.
On Monday, the 13th inst., the jousts began, and continued three days.
Sir Lancelot told them it was in his mind to go to the jousts at Camelot.
Then the king let purvey for a great feast, and let cry a great jousts.
Last year, on a certain evil day, the jousts were held at Chester, and thither my son went, as did I and my lady wife.
He was but twenty, yet he had achieved a squire's training and could play prettily in jousts and tournaments and other knightly games.
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