She introduced me to her husband, and to another young man who seemed to be the cavalier of the other lady, her cousin.
She stretched out her hand as if to toy with me, whereupon I gave her a slight box on the ear, and imitating the manner of a repentant cavalier she kissed my hand and begged my pardon.
Like a courtly cavalier I would not sit down, but waited on the ladies, going from one to the other, eating the dainty bits they gave me, and seeing that all had what they wanted.
One good combination," he says, "is Polly Archer andCavalier Rusticana.
His satin shoes and silk stockings contrasted curiously with the grass on which the cavalier stood, and the sylvan scene around him; and still more so with his dogs and two horses, which were held at some little distance by a page.
Doctor Rochecliffe become literally one of the church militant, and tilting with my friend cavalier Wildrake?
There remains the sacrilegious and graceless cavalier who attempted your Excellency's life last night," said Pearson.
But yet, folding his arms in his cloak, as if upon second thoughts laying aside suspicion, or thinking precaution beneath him, he asked the cavalier what he was, and whence he came?
So saying, the cavalier retreated into his separate apartment, and Colonel Everard, taking off the most cumbrous part of his dress, lay down in his hose and doublet, and composed himself to rest.
The cavalier contrived, however, while doing him these menial offices, to give his friend a shrewd pinch, in order to maintain the footing of secret equality betwixt them.
The devil is worse than the worst cavalier that ever drank a health, or swore an oath--and the devil has arisen at Woodstock Lodge!
To the Castle the disguised cavalier repaired at the hour appointed.
Such is the cant of the day thou livest in, and why shouldst thou not talk like one of the wise virgins and psalm-singing sisters, since, though thou hast a profane old cavalier for a father, thou art own niece to pious uncle Everard?
The old cavalier had attacked a man as cunning of fence as he himself, or a little more so, and possessing all the strength and activity of which time had deprived Sir Henry, and the calmness which the other had lost in his passion.
At other times he thought some unexpected alarm, or perhaps some drunken cavalier revel, had caused the family of Woodstock Lodge to make later hours than usual.
Here the cavalier took a more strict view of his person, and exclaimed in wonder, "What the devil have you been fighting with, Markham, that has bedizened you after this sorry fashion?
The cavalier had no time to escape, but drew his sword, and defended himself against the furious assault of the duke.
He immediately ordered a party of his people to accompany the messenger to the forest of Marentino, and to suffer neither Julia nor the cavalier to escape them, on pain of death.
The duke knocked at the door, and enquired of the man who opened it concerning the lady and cavalier then in his cottage.
There the friends of the cavalier resided, and with them they expected to find a secure retreat.
Julia experienced a various emotion of pleasure and fear when the Count de Vereza, in whom she recollected the cavalier she had observed from the window, led her forth.
Diego Antonio de Viana Hinojosa, Cavalier of the Order of Santiago, the twenty-fourth Perpetuo of the city of Granada, and the General of Artillery of the ruler of Sevilla, this gate with its drawbridge and its ravelins was finished.
Enciso, it will be remembered, was a partner of Alonzo de Ojeda, that brilliant and gallant cavalier of Spain who in 1508 was Governor of Nueva Andalusia, a region which we now know as the Caribbean coast of Colombia.
To seem to continue the drive with her cavalier would, she determined, look more natural and less absurd than to attempt a violent escape from him.
As he had but recently come to Leyden, very little was known about this attractive cavalier beyond that he was well spoken of by the priests and, according to report, a favourite with the Emperor.
At the moment Lysbeth was occupied with wild ideas of swift escape, but even if she could make up her mind to try it there was an obstacle which her thoughtful cavalier had foreseen.
As Lysbeth skated down the canal towards the moat many of the good burghers of Leyden took off their caps to her, especially the young burghers, one or two of whom had hopes that she would choose them to be her cavalier for this day's fete.
So at least she declared to Lysbeth when she brought her cavalier back to dinner.
In his own interests, for he will scarcely be a welcome guest in Leyden, I ask that, before you depart, you should place this noble cavalier ashore in a position where we can see him.
I accepted the apology of the young cavalier and told him that I bore him no ill will.
The cavalier noticed the longing, fiery looks which she was bending on him, and thought he was in better luck now than of old.
This samecavalier had at a previous time, before my mother was married, had designs on her virtue, which she rejected with indignation.
Now, as no man living can be in the same breath Cavalier and Roundhead, it follows as plainly as B follows A that whichever one of you complains of the other is avowedly the King's enemy and a palpable rebel.
As Brilliana sat at the harpsichord playing the brave Cavalier ballad, Halfman, watching her, found his eyes dim with most unfamiliar water.
Puritan and Cavalier clasped hands in a hearty grip.
Perhaps she had been piqued by Sir Blaise's too confident assumption of superiority to the judgment of her people; perhaps she thought it might divert her to see Puritan and Cavalier face each other before her in the shadowed circle of yews.
It is strange," he said, almost to himself, "that a Cavalier world is content without women players.
One and all they turned and left her, and as they tramped into the air the chorus of the Cavalier song came back to her happy ears.
Here in England love is a more glorious god yet, for he can fling a Puritan soldier at the feet of a Cavalier lady.
Halfman's only answer was to whistle very softly the first few bars of a roaring Cavalier ballad.
Halfman slapped his thigh approvingly and answered to the Cavalier with grave voice and smiling eyes.
The Cavalier caught her hand and stayed her before she could speak his name.
At this flagrant enunciation of Cavalier policy Evander could not but smile.
They took us for Essex men because of our orange-tawny scarves, but they found out when too late that we were right-tight Cavalier lads and no crop-eared curmudgeons.
Yet there is little evidence of permanent Cavalier influence in any Southern colony.
George Washington's ancestors are known to have been respectable English squires, but where are theCavalier forefathers of Patrick Henry and Thomas Jefferson, John C.
I would willingly have come on foot, so as to behold with my own eyes the superb cavalier that you and I are going to give to my daughter.
The cavalier who finally overtakes the beast, flings a lasso round his neck as he passes at full gallop, and drags him in his rapid track to the nearest tent.
And as each cavalier has always two or three saddled horses in waiting near his tent, the plain is speedily covered, as if by enchantment, with a cloud of eager horsemen.
The post of sargento-mayor was given to Don Agustin de Cepeda, a cavalier of nobility and acknowledged courage--displayed in the most difficult and honorable posts of these islands.
She was teaching a Highland dance to a graceful cavalier in white silk breeches, flowered satin waistcoat, and most choicely powdered periwig, fresh from the friseur.
As for myself, I was not afraid of their hanging me, but I was not minded to play into the hands of Volney by letting myself get cooped up in prison for many weeks pending a trial while he renewed his cavalier wooing of the maid.
The men of the nation being disposed of in such cavalier fashion, what shall we say of the ladies, sir?
I beg pardon for my words, but let that man's eyes crawl out who denies beauty to either of you; this cavalier has seen it already in your case.
Then he is not only a cavalier famous through military exploits, but a man sensitive to the good of the country, and reward, not unjust judgments, should meet him for that.
The church was filled with a throng of nobles and soldiers, who wished to look for the last time at the coffin of the Hector of Kamenyets, and the first cavalier of the Commonwealth.
Ketling and I have sworn not to surrender the castle till death, and we will not surrender; for if I am bound to keep the word of a cavalier to every man, what must I do to God, who surpasses all in majesty?
Pan Boski, a cavalier of great honor and a dear comrade, was taken by the horde some years since, near Kamenyets.
That youngcavalier became an agreeable guest at Ketling's house.
Father Kaminski had been a soldier in his youthful years and a cavalier of great courage; he was now stationed at Ushytsa and was reorganizing a parish.
In this conviction he sent to evident death, as it were, his favorite soldier, the most renowned cavalier of the Commonwealth.
I will not say another syllable," added Zagloba; "only give me the word of a cavalier that no matter what happens to Ketling you will stay a month with us.
Very few men understand the proper manner in which to exercise the duties of the cavalier servant in mounting and dismounting ladies.
How little this chattering creature, disguised in serge, resembled the cavalier who had enlisted the sympathy of the multitude!
The magnificentcavalier waved his hat, and with an air of proud consciousness, replied: "I was requested to give my advice regarding the arrangement of a gentleman's hair.
And were you, then, the cavalier who spoiled my night's chase and robbed me of my white doe?
The walls of the hall were covered with portraits of a cavalier ancestry.
But he omitted to say that the preacher recognized in me one of a Cavalier family, and that they may suspect that I was in London on business of the king's.
Harry could scarce believe his eyes; this gallant, in the gay dress of a cavalier officer, could be no follower of Cromwell.
When Harry rode into Oxford with the news that the Roundheads had made a raid as far as Abingdon, no time was lost in sounding to boot and saddle, and in half an hour the Cavalier horse were trotting briskly in that direction.
At York he had procured for himself and his followers suits of clothes of a grave and sober cut, such as would be worn by yeomen; and here they laid aside their Cavalier garments, and proceeded northward.
This man, whom I suspect to be a Cavalier in disguise, saith that he has been an apprentice to Master Nicholas Fleming, a velvet dealer of London.
Rather proud of his attire as a young cavalier in full arms, Harry dismounted and courteously saluted her.
As the last man cleared the bridge, he gave him rein, and with a bound and a scramble reached the apex, and stood--within half a neck of the foremost of the cavalier troop.
It was difficult not to forgive the cavalier a little.
She would have been still more terrified if she had known that he had fought as the cavalier of Charity Coe Cheever.
She had a husband who would desert her and a cavalier who would not.
