"Derring" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... cap-a-pie and clad in a surcoat of gold stuff, riding on a grey white steed,[FN215] and he had no hair on his cheeks. He urged his charger on to the midst of the battle plain and the two fell to derring do of cut and thrust, but it was not long before the Frank foined the Moslem with the lance point; and, toppling him from his steed, took him prisoner and led him off crestfallen. His folk rejoiced in their comrade and, forbidding him to go out again to the field, sent forth ...
— The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, Volume 2 • Richard F. Burton |
