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King Ban was wroth with him, and followed on him fiercely; the other saw that, and cast up his shield, and spurred his horse forward, but the stroke of King Ban fell down and carved a cantel off the shield, and the sword slid down by the hauberk behind his back, and cut through the trapping of steel and the horse even in two pieces, that the sword felt the earth.

Le Morte d'Arthur: Sir Thomas Malory's book of King Arthur and of his noble knights of the Round table 2003

Two more, missing him narrowly, cut right through the cantel of the saddle and into the horse's back.

The River War An Account of the Reconquest of the Sudan Winston S. Churchill 1919

Once the outlaw took his cloak from its fastenings at his saddle's cantel and threw it about the shoulders of the girl, for the night air was chilly, and again he dismounted and led her palfrey around a bad place in the road, lest the beast might slip and fall.

The Outlaw of Torn Edgar Rice Burroughs 1912

It matters very little whether Trent cuts you a cantel out here, or Rhine rounds you a castle less there.

Sesame and Lilies. Lecture I.-Sesame: Of Kings’ Treasuries 1909

Then King Ban was wroth with him, and followed on him fiercely; the other saw that, and cast up his shield, and spurred his horse forward, but the stroke of King Ban fell down and carved a cantel off the shield, and the sword slid down by the hauberk behind his back, and cut through the trapping of steel and the horse even in two pieces, that the sword felt the earth.

Le Morte Darthur: Sir Thomas Malory's Book of King Arthur and of his Noble Knights of the Round Table, Volume 1 1903

If there was, it was not that animal oscillating along the saddle of sand, progressing from pommel to cantel, like the pendulum of a clock.

The Boy Slaves Mayne Reid 1850

Two men then, each taking a pack, go upon opposite sides of the mule, that has been previously saddled, and, raising the packs simultaneously, place the loops over the pommel and cantel, settling them well down into their places.

The Prairie Traveler A Hand-book for Overland Expeditions Randolph Barnes Marcy 1849

_for_ argument, all-eyes _for_ allies, aloud _for_ allowed, banish'd _for_ ravish'd, cancel _for_ cantel, candle _for_ caudle, culsedness

Literary Blunders Henry Benjamin Wheatley 1877

a cantel out here, or Rhine rounds you a castle less there.

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