“A charge of knights was supposed to be thundering death on hooves, a flail of metal driven by the ponderous weight of men, horses and armor, and properly done, it was a mass maker of widows.”

— Bernard Cornwell , The Grail Quest

Narrator, p. 338
The Grail Quest, The Archer's Tale/Harlequin (2000)

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British writer 1944

Cameron Dokey (1956) American writer

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“You can't stop us on the road to freedom
You can't stop us 'cause our eyes can see
Men with insight, men in granite
Knights in armor intent on chivalry.”

Van Morrison (1945) Northern Irish singer-songwriter and musician

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“As we cast our gaze on the tumbling sea
A vision came o'er me
Of thundering hooves and beating wings
In clouds above.”

Loreena McKennitt (1957) Canadian musician and composer

The Visit (1991), The Old Ways

“Cicero said loud-bawling orators were driven by their weakness to noise, as lame men to take horse.”

Plutarch (46–127) ancient Greek historian and philosopher

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“A guy in Greek armor drew his sword and charged, but slipped in a puddle of pina colada.”

Rick Riordan book The Sea of Monsters

Source: The Sea of Monsters

“We’re multigenerational Squires. (Carl)
Which means what? You prance around with tinfoil armor and plastic swords pretending to be knights? (Nick)”

Sherrilyn Kenyon (1965) Novelist

Source: Infinity

“My Sin City heroes are knights in dirty, blood-caked armor. They bring justice to a world that gives them no medals, no praise, no reward.”

Frank Miller (1957) American writer, artist, film director

"Frank Miller: I Stole From The Best!" COMICDOM interview (22 January 2006), edited by Dimitris Sakaridis http://www.comicdom.gr/interviews.php?id=17&lang=en
Context: My Sin City heroes are knights in dirty, blood-caked armor. They bring justice to a world that gives them no medals, no praise, no reward. That world, that city, often kills them for their brave service.

“The natural hoof, like natural locomotion, is what nature has intended for the hooves of the modern horse. The natural shaped hoof found among wild horses in the outback is nothing less than a structural masterpiece; it has no rivals among domesticated horses anywhere.”

Jaime Jackson (1947) Horse hoof care professional

The Natural Horse (1997)

“Wire, rods, sheet metal have strength, even in very attenuated forms, and respond quickly to whatever sort of work one may subject them to. Contrasts in mass or weight are feasible, too, according to the gauge, or to the kind of metal used, so that physical laws, as well as aesthetic concepts, can be held to. There is of course a close alliance between physics and aesthetics.”

Alexander Calder (1898–1976) American artist

Quote of Calder (1943) in his essay A Propos of Measuring a Mobile, Calder Foundation; as quoted in Calder and Mondrian: An Unlikely Kinship, senior-thesis by Eva Yonas http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.517.581&rep=rep1&type=pdf, Ohio State University August 2006, Department of Art History, p. 19
1930s - 1950s

“Knight, keep well thy head, for thou shalt have a buffet for the slaying of my horse.”

Thomas Malory book Le Morte d'Arthur

Book III, ch. 12
Le Morte d'Arthur (c. 1469) (first known edition 1485)

“A charge of knights was supposed to be thundering death on hooves, a flail of metal driven by the ponderous weight of men, horses and armor, and properly done, it was a mass maker of widows.”

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