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" ... midst thereof was like an anvil of steel a foot on high, and therein stuck a fair sword naked by the point, and letters there were written in gold about the sword that said thus: WHOSO PULLETH OUT THIS SWORD OF THIS STONE AND ANVIL, IS RIGHTWISE KING... "
Morte D'Arthur: Sir Thomas Malory's Book of King Arthur & of His Noble ... - Page 24
by Sir Thomas Malory - 1868 - 496 pages
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The Boy's King Arthur: Being Sir Thomas Malory's History of King Arthur and ...

Sir Thomas Malory - 1880 - 490 pages
...by the point, and letters of gold were written about the sword that said thus : WHO so PULLETH OUT THIS SWORD OF THIS STONE AND ANVIL, IS RIGHTWISE KING BORN OF ENGLAND. So when all the masses were done, all the [lords] went for to behold the stone and the sword....
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The boy's king Arthur, sir T. Malory's history of king Arthur and his ...

Arthur (king.) - 1880 - 520 pages
...by the point, and letters of gold were written about the sword that said thus : WHO so PULLETH OUT THIS SWORD OF THIS STONE AND ANVIL, IS RIGHTWISE KING BORN OF ENGLAND. So when all the masses were done, all the [lords] went for to behold the stone and the sword....
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A History of English Prose Fiction

Bayard Tuckerman - 1882 - 348 pages
...great rock in the churchyard of St. Paul's bearing the inscription : " Whoso pulleth this sword out of this stone and anvil, is rightwise king born of all England"; and it is by the same supernatural aid that the stripling Arthur, whose birth is unknown, fulfils the...
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The Folk-tales of the Magyars

W. Henry Jones, Lajos Kropf - 1889 - 560 pages
...the point, and letters there were written in gold abont the sword that said thus: whoso pnlleth out this sword of this stone and anvil is rightwise king born of all England." Which sword was drawn out by Sir Arthur. Cf. book 2, cap. i. where a maiden comes girt with a sword,...
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Proceedings of the Numismatic and Antiquarian Society of Philadelphia

Numismatic and Antiquarian Society of Philadelphia - 1902 - 738 pages
...stuck a fair sword, naked, by the point, and letters of gold were written about : 'Whoso pulleth out this sword of this stone and anvil is rightwise king born of England' . . . 'Now assay,' said Sir Ector to Sir Kaye. And anon he pulled at the sword with all his...
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Elementary lessons in English

Henry Pendexter Emerson, Ida Catherine Bender - 1906 - 264 pages
...was a shining sword; on the sword in letters of gold stood these quaint words : " Whoso pulleth out this sword of this stone and anvil is rightwise king born of all England." Immediately every lord tried to pull out the sword. Not one could move it. A day was set for a second...
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Primitive Traditional History: The Primitive History and ..., Volume 2

James Francis Katherinus Hewitt - 1907 - 604 pages
...altar, in which a sword was fixed with its point upwards, and on it was written, " Whoso pulleth out this sword of this stone and anvil is rightwise king born of all England 2." This stone was the northern gnomon-stone, the centre of the year-circle, which had replaced in...
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The Story of King Arthur from Malory's "Morte Darthur"

Mary Macleod - 1908 - 148 pages
...the sword, which said thus : "WHOSO PULLETH THIS SWORD OUT OF THIS STONE AND ANVIL IS RIGHTLY KING OF ALL ENGLAND." Then the people marvelled, and told...Archbishop. " I command," said the Archbishop, " that you keep within the church, and pray unto God still ; and that no man touch the sword till the service...
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... King Arthur Stories from Malory

Sir Thomas Malory, Lillian O. Stevens, Edward Frank Allen - 1908 - 214 pages
...*' Wfyoso pulleth out ti)i& cfoorti of this stone anD anbtl, 10 nghtUMc bing born of all CuglanD." Then the people marvelled and told it to the archbishop. " I command," said the archbishop, "that ye keep within your church, and pray unto God still ; that no man touch the sword till the high mass be all...
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Lessons in Language, Literature, and Composition

Henry Pendexter Emerson, Ida C. Bender - 1908 - 312 pages
...was a shining sword; on the sword in letters of gold stood these quaint words: " Whoso pulleth out this sword of this stone and anvil is rightwise king born of all England." games and contests were planned, and to these games came Sir Ector, Sir Kay, his real sou, and Arthur....
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