"Joust" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... the fat Nucingen to du Tillet, "you haf joust missed blaying me a bretty drick in zenting Pirodot to me. I don't know," he added, addressing Gobenheim the manufacturer, "vy he tid not ask me for fifdy tousand francs. I should ...
— Rise and Fall of Cesar Birotteau • Honore de Balzac
... a fight, anyhow," said the king. "Come hither, O knights, will ye joust for the hand of ...
— Rolling Stones • O. Henry
... sufficient respect for the forms of religion to regret that her mother should make her behaviour in church the talk of the parish, and to be rather pleased that the clergyman should have had the best of it in his joust of arms with her, but further interest in ...
— There & Back • George MacDonald
... your apologies," cried he; "the lackeys remove our arms, the joust is over. My horses have been standing all this time, and may have taken cold. Of course you have seen my horses. Splendid animals, are they not? Zora is in the other room. Quick, fetch ...
— Caught In The Net • Emile Gaboriau |
