I wish the 'Packhorse' was quit of him, maugre his laced coat. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 104, June, 1866] Reference
And in despite of us all he is departed from us and maugre our heads. From Wordnik.com. [Le Morte d'Arthur: Sir Thomas Malory's book of King Arthur and of his noble knights of the Round table] Reference
Sagramore, maugre your head, ye shall joust with us or ye pass from us. From Wordnik.com. [Le Morte d'Arthur: Sir Thomas Malory's book of King Arthur and of his noble knights of the Round table] Reference
In this manner ye are welcome, that ye come hither maugre thy head, as I suppose. From Wordnik.com. [Le Morte d'Arthur: Sir Thomas Malory's book of King Arthur and of his noble knights of the Round table] Reference
Then Sir Launcelot by great force and might gat his own horse maugre twenty knights. From Wordnik.com. [Le Morte d'Arthur: Sir Thomas Malory's book of King Arthur and of his noble knights of the Round table] Reference
For the mountaynes ben so hye and so streghte up, that thei moste abyde there, maugre hire myghte. From Wordnik.com. [The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation] Reference
And else, said Sir Gawaine, wit thou well thou shouldst not have come here, but if it were maugre thy head. From Wordnik.com. [Le Morte d'Arthur: Sir Thomas Malory's book of King Arthur and of his noble knights of the Round table] Reference
Her he instantly pounces upon and bears off by force, maugre her struggles or the outcries of her companions. From Wordnik.com. [Ralph Rashleigh] Reference
So those three knights loved their sister so sore that they brent in love, and so they lay by her, maugre her head. From Wordnik.com. [Chronicle and Romance (The Harvard Classics Series)] Reference
And all was the cause, that ye and Dame Brisen made me for to lie by you maugre mine head; and as ye say, that night. From Wordnik.com. [Le Morte d'Arthur: Sir Thomas Malory's book of King Arthur and of his noble knights of the Round table] Reference
Ah, said Sir Dinadan, art thou that coward knight that I met with yesterday? keep thee, for thou shalt joust with me maugre thy head. From Wordnik.com. [Le Morte d'Arthur: Sir Thomas Malory's book of King Arthur and of his noble knights of the Round table] Reference
This custom, said the knight, have I used and will use maugre who saith nay, and who is grieved with my custom let him amend it that will. From Wordnik.com. [Le Morte d'Arthur: Sir Thomas Malory's book of King Arthur and of his noble knights of the Round table] Reference
But great number of folk ne may not do so, for the mountains be so high and so straight up, that they must abide there, maugre their might. From Wordnik.com. [The Travels of Sir John Mandeville] Reference
He was first stripped entirely of his clothing, and then maugre his struggles, carried, or rather dragged, along until they reached the ant-bed. From Wordnik.com. [Ralph Rashleigh] Reference
The people said, Verily Demochares is right happy, in that after the death of so many beasts, hee hath gotten maugre fortunes head, so goodly a bear. From Wordnik.com. [The Golden Asse] Reference
Master Tressilian, I shall proceed, maugre all the gibes and quips of this valiant soldier, who, peradventure, hath had more cuffs than crowns in the. From Wordnik.com. [Kenilworth] Reference
King of Scots and smote him to the earth; and by great force he took his horse, and brought him to Sir Launcelot, and maugre of them all he made him to mount upon that horse. From Wordnik.com. [Le Morte d'Arthur: Sir Thomas Malory's book of King Arthur and of his noble knights of the Round table] Reference
Nevertheless, such were the Charms of the young Favorella, that maugre all the oppositions of Reason and Interest, he was forced to comply with this Passion, in the Espousing her. From Wordnik.com. [The Lining of the Patch-Work Screen] Reference
That in went all their press, maugre the Sarazins all. From Wordnik.com. [Specimens with Memoirs of the Less-known British Poets, Complete] Reference
The sun comes out clear at last maugre all the region fogs. '. From Wordnik.com. [St. George and St. Michael] Reference
In the maugre of doughty Douglas and all that ever with him be. From Wordnik.com. [A Bundle of Ballads] Reference
"Rosamund" sells well in London, maugre the non-reviewal of it. From Wordnik.com. [The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 5 The Letters of Charles and Mary Lamb] Reference
Perceval issueth forth of the ship, and bringeth Gohaz up maugre his head. From Wordnik.com. [The High History of the Holy Graal] Reference
Yes! maugre all thy dreams of peace still must the fight unfair be fought. From Wordnik.com. [The Kasidah of Haji Abdu El-Yezdi] Reference
Nay, maugre the deathless gods was it builded, wherefore it abode steadfast for no long time. From Wordnik.com. [The Iliad] Reference
But the angel in the dream did, and, maugre Plain Talk, put quite other notions into the candle-maker. From Wordnik.com. [The Confidence-Man] Reference
It came and came again, maugre all his self-recrimination because of it: what was all this fighting for?. From Wordnik.com. [St. George and St. Michael Volume II] Reference
Thereby it ariseth, that some men make their cracks, that they, maugre all men's heads, have found purgatory. From Wordnik.com. [Sermons on the Card] Reference
French, English, and Hollanders, who visited those seas "maugre the King of Spain's beard," discovered it at a very early date. From Wordnik.com. [On the Spanish Main Or, Some English forays on the Isthmus of Darien.] Reference
Knowing what wretchedness this meant on shore, we were glad of the crowded shelter of our P-boat, maugre its noises and discomforts. From Wordnik.com. [The Leicestershires beyond Baghdad] Reference
They run upon him again on all sides, but maugre all their heads he goeth thither where he thinketh to find his horse; but him findeth he not. From Wordnik.com. [The High History of the Holy Graal] Reference
And Messire Gawain taketh the horse that was right rich and good, maugre all of his fellowship, and giveth it to one of the five knights that maketh it be led to. From Wordnik.com. [The High History of the Holy Graal] Reference
By virtue of this inevitable nature, private will is overpowered, and, maugre our efforts or our imperfections, your genius will speak from you, and mine from me. From Wordnik.com. [Essays — First Series] Reference
Occasionally he pressed his hand to his side as if in pain; but maugre pain, weariness, or anguish, he pressed on, admonished by the lengthening shadows of the approach of night. From Wordnik.com. [The Witch of Salem or Credulity Run Mad] Reference
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