"You're too pragmatic to play the knight-errant, Jonat.". From Wordnik.com. [Flash] Reference
Don Quixote was not a better knight-errant than you are. From Wordnik.com. [Framley Parsonage] Reference
Dream of being a knight-errant in armor in the Middle Ages. From Wordnik.com. [Mark Twain: A Biography] Reference
So the good man was fain when he saw he was a knight-errant. From Wordnik.com. [Le Morte d'Arthur: Sir Thomas Malory's book of King Arthur and of his noble knights of the Round table] Reference
Edward, forsooth, in his knight-errant expedition against Louis. From Wordnik.com. [Anne of Geierstein] Reference
Sir Launcelot was not now so much of a knight-errant as to leave. From Wordnik.com. [The Life and Adventures of Sir Launcelot Greaves] Reference
Charlotte want a knight-errant, or a devoted lover, the Marquis of. From Wordnik.com. [The Life of Charlotte Bronte] Reference
The latest knight-errant to sally forth is 36-year-old Bobby Jindal. From Wordnik.com. [Jindal's Progress] Reference
Athenry was as great as ever was displayed by a knight-errant of old. From Wordnik.com. [The Reminiscences of an Irish Land Agent] Reference
"May I know what your knight-errant is saying to you, Mary?" inquired. From Wordnik.com. [Willis the Pilot] Reference
"The Wickliffe boy -- is a knight-errant born out of time," she said. From Wordnik.com. [Ainslee's, Vol. 15, No. 5, June 1905] Reference
He was the closest thing we had to a knight-errant in American politics. From Wordnik.com. [Bart Motes: McCain Is No Longer A Knight-Errant, But An Errant Knight] Reference
As they strolled towards the parlour, Sophie glanced up at her knight-errant. From Wordnik.com. [A Lady of Expectations]
Sir, I am a knight-errant as ye be, that hath sought you long by your shield. From Wordnik.com. [Le Morte d'Arthur: Sir Thomas Malory's book of King Arthur and of his noble knights of the Round table] Reference
Neal went to England a sort of Yankee knight-errant to fight for his country. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 2, No 3, September, 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy.] Reference
But you wanted to be a knight-errant, and, during that time, a handsome fellow. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
Ferarum, as long ago as the days of King John, the knight-errant ruler of Bohemia. From Wordnik.com. [From a Terrace in Prague] Reference
Richard's juvenile soul burnt within him at the sight like that of a knight-errant. From Wordnik.com. [Julia And Her Romeo: A Chronicle Of Castle Barfield From "Schwartz" by David Christie Murray] Reference
Garibaldi, "the hero of the red shirt," was the knight-errant of Italian independence. From Wordnik.com. [General History for Colleges and High Schools] Reference
Sir, said Bors, I am a knight-errant; and told him all the adventure which he had seen. From Wordnik.com. [Le Morte d'Arthur: Sir Thomas Malory's book of King Arthur and of his noble knights of the Round table] Reference
The good man there was glad when he saw a knight-errant, and made him what cheer he might. From Wordnik.com. [Stories of King Arthur and His Knights Retold from Malory's "Morte dArthur"] Reference
Foolish knight-errant, when you ought to know that drunkenness is at the root of these crimes!. From Wordnik.com. [The Daughters of Danaus] Reference
He had caught them sharing a private moment once before, but what knight-errant did not whisper to his lady at Court?. From Wordnik.com. [qdiosa Diary Entry] Reference
His expeditions may vie in distance and danger with the pilgrimage of the devotee or the crusade of the knight-errant. From Wordnik.com. [Types of Children's Literature] Reference
His expeditions may vie in distance and danger with the pilgrimage of the devotee, or the crusade of the knight-errant. From Wordnik.com. [The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon] Reference
The Swedish army had been crushed, and the Swedish hero-king was a mere knight-errant unable to return to his own land. From Wordnik.com. [Heroes of Modern Europe] Reference
We shall not dwell upon this tender scene, because it is but of a secondary concern in the history of our knight-errant. From Wordnik.com. [The Life and Adventures of Sir Launcelot Greaves] Reference
Thoulouse, as he passed, as a wild knight-errant, incapable of being influenced by any thing save his own wayward fancy. From Wordnik.com. [Count Robert of Paris] Reference
His thumbs pressed lightly against her lips, warning her that he would tolerate no reminders of his days as her knight-errant. From Wordnik.com. [Thief Of Hearts]
Nor could he see anything amusing in the landlord's boast that he too had been a knight-errant in his time, roaming the Isles of. From Wordnik.com. [The Book-Hunter at Home] Reference
“And I say unto thee,” resumed the knight, “nothing is impossible to a true knight-errant, inspired and animated by love.”. From Wordnik.com. [The Life and Adventures of Sir Launcelot Greaves] Reference
The door yielded to my hand, with that facility with which the portals of enchanted castles yield to the adventurous knight-errant. From Wordnik.com. [The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon] Reference
Her voice rang out shrilly, as she came forward, trembling with anger, and her knight-errant looked up at her in a daze of wonderment. From Wordnik.com. [Joyce's Investments A Story for Girls] Reference
BUCKMASTER may have approached his subject in the spirit of a cautious knight-errant, as Lord SUMNER said, but he carried his argument. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 152, March 7, 1917] Reference
Richard — a true knight-errant he, and will wander in wild adventure, trusting the prowess of his single arm, like any Sir Guy or Sir. From Wordnik.com. [Ivanhoe] Reference
“Odyssey,” and “Don Quixote,” for his principal knight-errant becomes mad like the Spanish hero, and is infinitely more pleasant. From Wordnik.com. [A Philosophical Dictionary] Reference
"It does so," replied Don Quixote; "and if I do not complain of the pain, it is because a knight-errant must never complain of his wounds.". From Wordnik.com. [The Ontario Readers Third Book] Reference
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