loathly in a sentence
Examples
- On the third mention of that which he had promised never to speak of, the Loathly Lady and the house disappeared, and his beloved greyhound died.
- Jim tries to make the journey to Loathly Tower by himself when he is well again but stops and encounters sandmirks again so he flies off to escape them.
- The tale is an example of the " loathly lady " motif, the oldest examples of which are the medieval Irish sovereignty myths such as Niall of the Nine Hostages.
- In " The Wedding of Sir Gawain and Dame Ragnelle ", his wits, virtue and respect for women frees his wife, a loathly lady, from her curse of ugliness.
- The motif is that of a woman that appears unattractive ( ugly, " loathly " ) but undergoes a transformation upon being approached by a man in spite of her unattractiveness, becoming extremely desirable.
- But before long, a loathly lady enters the court and admonishes Perceval for failing to ask his host whom the grail served and why the lance bled, as the appropriate question would have healed the wounded king.
- In the forest he encounters an ugly hag on a fine horse, a loathly lady who claims to know the king's problem and offers to give him the answer to this question that will save his life, on one condition.
- The loathly lady announces other quests that the Knights of the Round Table proceed to take up and the remainder of the poem deals with Arthur's nephew and best knight Gawain, who has been challenged to a duel by a knight who claims Gawain had slain his lord.
- The rest of the novel's chapters cover many of the other Gawain and the Loathly Lady; and finally the arrival of Percival at Arthur's court, which is connected by Merlin's previous prophecies to presage the beginning of the Round Table's downfall.
- Sir Gawain thus transformed the Loathly lady; although he was told that this was half-way, she could at his choice be beautiful by day and hideous by night, or vice versa, he told her that he would choose what she preferred, which broke the spell entirely.