Sentence Examples

1. We returned to Constantinople, and the following year, seventy-three, it became known that Don John had seized Tunis and taken the kingdom from the Turks, and placed Muley Hamet in possession, putting an end to the hopes which Muley Hamida, the cruelest and bravest Moor in the world, entertained of returning to reign there.
2. From her silence they concluded that she must be a Moor and unable to speak a Christian tongue.
3. Most tales from Harry and Robert cast the man he now pursued as a coward and a trickster, one who spent his life skulking in the gutter and would turn tail and run, as he had done at Harlsey Moor, rather than face an adversary.
4. There were trees as you crested the top of the moor about a quarter mile ahead, and Richard was riding towards them, not quickly though.
5. And as it is the privilege and charm of beauty to win the heart and secure good-will, all forthwith became eager to show kindness and attention to the lovely Moor.
6. On entering he asked for a room, and when they told him there was none in the inn he seemed distressed, and approaching her who by her dress seemed to be a Moor, he took her down from the saddle in his arms.
7. Neither saw the man Jack had provided with a horse on Harlsey Moor approach and stand quietly at the end of the table.
8. For my Dulcinea, I will venture to swear, never saw a Moor in her life, as he is, in his proper costume, and she is this day as the mother that bore her, and I should plainly be doing her a wrong if, fancying anything else, I were to go mad with the same kind of madness as Roland the Furious.
9. But putting the question of his valour aside, let us come to his losing his wits, for certain it is that he did lose them in consequence of the proofs he discovered at the fountain, and the intelligence the shepherd gave him of Angelica having slept more than two siestas with Medoro, a little curly-headed Moor, and page to Agramante.
10. He sat up there on the moor, leaning slightly forward in the saddle, watching Robert.