Knightly combat

Usage examples of joust.

After the necessary ablutions the priest once more began his pious work, while the victim growing bolder so provoked his rage that it was not till the fourth mactation that we rested and put off our joust to another season.

She listened as the interview became a jousting session between Bowles and the governor-general, learned that manipulating the press had a whole new meaning when it was done by someone with experience and skill.

He was the Hero of Niagara on the billboards and he caused such a furore that one woman tried to commit suicide because her husband would not take her to see Blondin joust with death.

Avatre was not even in the first stages of Jousting training, and neither was he.

She could tear a wing membrane and bleed to death, she could break a wing bone and cripple herself, she could even wander out of her pen and into the pen of one of the Jousting dragons and be killed and eaten!

Aket-ten was also much in evidence, reporting with triumph that the Lord of the Jousters had promised to lend copies of every scroll of Jousting training and dragon lore that the Jousters possessed.

The rest, however, were typical Altan Jousting dragons, which was to say, by Tian standards, difficult.

He tore through the scrolls on dragons, Jousting, and dragon keeping twice as fast as anyone else, and anything he read stayed in his memory forever.

Avatre also practiced Jousting, of course, but he had more of a mind to take to the sky with a sling rather than a lance.

So instead of Jousting, the Altan dragon riders were acting as scouts, and disrupting the Tian camps by means of a number of clever attacks.

They looked for all the world like an actual jousting area with a barricade down the center, which was there so that two opposing knights could ride at each other on different sides of it, and so avoid the danger of their horses blundering together.

The towering, slim length of his jousting spear stood upright from its socket by his armored right toe.

You, Theoluf, should stand by outside the big tent to watch the jousting, then come back and tell Sir James how matters have gone.

It was perhaps a not very honorable, but a perfectly legal trick in jousting to loosen corselet strings and tilt a shield.

Geronde immediately began talking, telling her about how the jousting had looked from the stand.