The romaunt, which is half Arabian in its origin, was at first a simple heroic tale; afterwards it became a very artificial species, adapted to various uses, but in which the picturesque ingredient always predominated even to the most brilliant luxuriance of colouring.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lectures on Dramatic Art and Literature] Reference

Was it to have been a second romaunt of 'King Cophetua and the.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 09, No. 51, January, 1862] Reference

At length his natural buoyancy of temper returned, much excited by the title of an old romaunt.    From Wordnik.com.  [Quentin Durward] Reference

On coin and jewel, in prayer and song they bore the Rose-Venus to every land in a living, ever-thrilling romaunt -- far goldener, more thrilling with poetry than was in later times the dull lay of De Loris and Clopinel: for wherever man found joy and beauty in life, feast, and song, she -- the.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Continental Monthly , Vol. 2 No. 5, November 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy] Reference

'Nay,' said Eleanor, 'we have a romaunt of our own.    From Wordnik.com.  [Two Penniless Princesses] Reference

She then took her lute and sang a romaunt of the day.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Cloister and the Hearth] Reference

'Moreover,' observed Humfrey, 'the ladies ought to see the romaunt of the.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Caged Lion] Reference

Was it to have been a second romaunt of ` King Cophetua and the Beggar Maid? '' '.    From Wordnik.com.  [Margret Howth: A Story of To-Day] Reference

"Fables! romaunt!" answered the earl, smiling; "there it lies, -- go and lift it.".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Last of the Barons — Complete] Reference

This was a romaunt in four cantos upon the already familiar episode of Francesca, that "lily in the mouth of Tartarus.".    From Wordnik.com.  [A History of English Romanticism in the Nineteenth Century] Reference

Verily this is no common mind; else, crazed or sane, it could not weave so straight and gaudy a tale as this out of the airy nothings wherewith it hath wrought this curious romaunt.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Prince and the Pauper; a tale for young people of all ages] Reference

Verily, this is no common mind; else, crazed or sane, it could not weave so straight and gaudy a tale as this out of the airy nothings wherewith it hath wrought this curious romaunt.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Prince and the Pauper, Part 4.] Reference

The beginnings of the Spanish poetry are extremely simple: its two fundamental forms were the romaunt and the song, and in these original national melodies we everywhere fancy we hear the accompaniment of the guitar.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lectures on Dramatic Art and Literature] Reference

And, sure enough, there was Kennedy, with rueful face and a maudlin romaunt about a moonlit meeting with a swarm of painted Sioux, over which the stable guard were making merry and stirring the trooper's soul to wrath ungovernable.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Daughter of the Sioux A Tale of the Indian frontier] Reference

Margaret became quite animated, and her sisters pressed her to tell them if she knew of any secret; but she playfully shook her head, and said that if she did know she would not mar the romaunt that was to be played out before them.    From Wordnik.com.  [Two Penniless Princesses] Reference

"Sir Floris" is an allegorical romaunt founded on a passage in "Le.    From Wordnik.com.  [A History of English Romanticism in the Nineteenth Century] Reference

A trifle would not indeed be worth mentioning in company with the marvellous deeds and mysterious sorceries of the old romaunt, but this being a true story, the hero young, and this the first game of the kind he has yet brought down, it must be excused.    From Wordnik.com.  [Adèle Dubois A Story of the Lovely Miramichi Valley in New Brunswick] Reference

Childe Harold's Pigrimage: a romaunt.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chronological List] Reference

Childe Harold's Pilgrimage: a romaunt.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chronological List] Reference

Was it to have been a second romaunt of 'King Cophetua and the Beggar Maid?'".    From Wordnik.com.  [Margret Howth, a Story of To-day] Reference

Clarence, whom it likes me well to view as Isabel's betrothed, for, to her, greatness and bliss are one; and she is of firm nature, and can rule in her own house; but thou -- where out of romaunt can I find a lord loving enough for thee, soft child? ".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Last of the Barons — Complete] Reference

For whom the romaunt is begonne.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fables of John Gay (Somewhat Altered)] Reference

What lies beyond a romaunt that was read.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lundy's Lane and Other Poems] Reference

'A romaunt in six cantos, entitled Woe woe.    From Wordnik.com.  [Scenes and Characters] Reference

Is it out of a romaunt? ".    From Wordnik.com.  [Unknown to History: a story of the captivity of Mary of Scotland] Reference