Example Sentences

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When it comes to the vital business of battles, eye-gougings, jeweled garters, entrancing moles on the thigh, and the neighing of palfreys, Shellabarger writes rings around the Maugham of Then and Now.

From Time Magazine Archive

It is not by the display of power and pomp, a cavalcade of retainers and richly housed palfreys, nor by gorgeous apparel, that the heretics win proselytes.

From Time Magazine Archive

Some had bear-paws for their horses too, and the shaggy little garrons wore them as easily as other mounts wore iron horseshoes ... but the palfreys and destriers wanted no part of them.

From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin

Most of their palfreys were gone as well.

From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin

Their garrons were sure-footed beasts that ate iess than palfreys, and much less than the big destriers, and the men who rode them were at home in the snow.

From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin