The duchess keeps her palfrey in the stable. From LearnThat.org.
Then he jumps on the maned palfrey, which is now ready for inspection. From Wordnik.com. [Four Arthurian Romances] Reference
According to the dictionary that comes with Mac OS X 10.5, a "palfrey" is "a docile horse used for ordinary riding.". From Wordnik.com. [It's called a "vacation."] Reference
Kathie and the twins and Alan have the other corner with their doll's house, a tail-less hobby horse, known both as the "palfrey" and the. From Wordnik.com. [We Ten Or, The Story of the Roses] Reference
"Follow me," he snapped, kicking his palfrey hard. From Wordnik.com. [The Saracen: Land of the Infidel] Reference
From the palfrey they helped the royal queen alight. From Wordnik.com. [The Nibelungenlied] Reference
Simon slowed his palfrey to fall back beside Mathieu. From Wordnik.com. [The Saracen: Land of the Infidel] Reference
Gayly, with joyous laugh, Priscilla mounted her palfrey. From Wordnik.com. [Narrative and Lyric Poems (first series) for use in the Lower School] Reference
They spoiled the lady also and stole her palfrey from her. From Wordnik.com. [French Mediaeval Romances from the Lays of Marie de France] Reference
He tugged on the reins of his palfrey, pulling her head around. From Wordnik.com. [The Saracen: Land of the Infidel] Reference
Simon jumped into the saddle and spurred his palfrey to a trot. From Wordnik.com. [The Saracen: Land of the Infidel] Reference
I shall ride a milk-white palfrey from the Mountains of the Moon. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 156, April 2, 1919] Reference
From her they took her palfrey and her vesture, even to the shift. From Wordnik.com. [French Mediaeval Romances from the Lays of Marie de France] Reference
With these words, he assisted his kinswoman upon her palfrey, placed. From Wordnik.com. [Nick of the Woods] Reference
Who, as she rode on her palfrey, o'er valley and meadow and mountain. From Wordnik.com. [Narrative and Lyric Poems (first series) for use in the Lower School] Reference
I rode my white palfrey all the way by the side of his big brown horse. From Wordnik.com. [Christmas in Legend and Story A Book for Boys and Girls] Reference
He clucked to his palfrey and spurred her lightly from a walk to a trot. From Wordnik.com. [The Saracen: Land of the Infidel] Reference
And Enid went before him on her palfrey, marvelling what all this might mean. From Wordnik.com. [King Arthur's Knights The Tales Re-told for Boys & Girls] Reference
And in great wrath she fled from the hall, mounted her palfrey and rode away. From Wordnik.com. [Stories from Le Morte D'Arthur and the Mabinogion] Reference
Looking towards the forest he saw a varlet issue therefrom riding upon a palfrey. From Wordnik.com. [French Mediaeval Romances from the Lays of Marie de France] Reference
Simon guided the black palfrey carefully down the road into the wooded valley west of Orvieto. From Wordnik.com. [The Saracen: Land of the Infidel] Reference
Madame de Steinfeldt instantly ordered her palfrey to be prepared, and her attendants to mount. From Wordnik.com. [The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 13, No. 370, May 16, 1829] Reference
De Verceuil on a huge black horse -- no palfrey this, but a powerful charger -- rode up to Simon. From Wordnik.com. [The Saracen: Land of the Infidel] Reference
Papillon, the brown and white mare Simon used as a palfrey, stood still while Simon patted her neck. From Wordnik.com. [The Saracen: The Holy War] Reference
At the crest of the first hill Simon tugged on the reins to slow his palfrey, and turned to look back. From Wordnik.com. [The Saracen: The Holy War] Reference
And when I rose next day, there was a dark bay palfrey, ready saddled, waiting in the courtyard for me. From Wordnik.com. [King Arthur's Knights The Tales Re-told for Boys & Girls] Reference
With an angry gesture Sir Gawaine seized her bridle and led her palfrey swiftly to the edge of the camp. From Wordnik.com. [King Arthur's Knights The Tales Re-told for Boys & Girls] Reference
Every train into Wilmington is thus attended, as the palfrey of an Eastern pasha by the running footman. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 25, April, 1873] Reference
Therewith the king and all espied where came riding down the river a lady on a white palfrey toward them. From Wordnik.com. [Chronicle and Romance (The Harvard Classics Series)] Reference
So she rode as fast as her palfrey might bear her, till that she came to the sea, the which was called Collibe. From Wordnik.com. [Chronicle and Romance (The Harvard Classics Series)] Reference
"Say, podner, might I be so free an 'onquisitive ez ter inquire ez ter whar yer got thet thar palfrey yer ridin'?". From Wordnik.com. [Ted Strong's Motor Car] Reference
Then they have put him on his palfrey, and, mourning, they lead him away in great dismay through the midst of the town. From Wordnik.com. [Cligés. English] Reference
He roared with laughter, fell off his palfrey and bawled for his batman, who ambled up balancing a square box on his woolly pate. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 152, May 9, 1917] Reference
"So ill, that he scarce could hold himself upon his palfrey," some one told the young knight in the crowd, in answer to his question. From Wordnik.com. [The Royal Pawn of Venice A Romance of Cyprus] Reference
So she rode as fast as her palfrey might bear her, till they came to the seaside, and there they found the ship wherein were Bors and. From Wordnik.com. [Stories of King Arthur and His Knights Retold from Malory's "Morte dArthur"] Reference
Rowena from her saddle, while his followers uncovered at the same time, and one of the most distinguished dismounted to hold her palfrey. From Wordnik.com. [Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 6] Reference
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