Dinadan, yonder are knights-errant that will joust with us. 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
That's why society still needs knights-errant like Edwards. From Wordnik.com. [Virginia Tech professor uncovered truth about lead in D.C. water] Reference
Their court was frequented by minnesingers and knights-errant. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 101, May, 1876] Reference
Great Britain, as well as through all Christendom, by the name of knights-errant. From Wordnik.com. [The Life and Adventures of Sir Launcelot Greaves] Reference
Modern dragons, hunting not for knights-errant, nor for medieval ladies, but for some small change. From Wordnik.com. [People I saw passing by] Reference
The following liver-persuading knights-errant are prescribed and ordered by disciples of Hippocrates. From Wordnik.com. [Intestinal Ills Chronic Constipation, Indigestion, Autogenetic Poisons, Diarrhea, Piles, Etc. Also Auto-Infection, Auto-Intoxication, Anemia, Emaciation, Etc. Due to Proctitis and Colitis] Reference
Hermits and knights-errant and people like that always manage to live somehow if they're in a forest. From Wordnik.com. [Prince Caspian]
Once he had encountered a band of Shaambah Arabs, out, like knights-errant, in quest of any adventure. From Wordnik.com. [Sacrifice] Reference
Anon the good man knew him that he was one of the knights-errant that was in the quest of the Sangreal. 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
Just as in tales of knights-errant, the landscape demands the action and the knights merely fulfill it. From Wordnik.com. [Nova Swing] Reference
It is believed by the prescribers that the length of the journey adds dignity to the drastic, dredging knights-errant. From Wordnik.com. [Intestinal Ills Chronic Constipation, Indigestion, Autogenetic Poisons, Diarrhea, Piles, Etc. Also Auto-Infection, Auto-Intoxication, Anemia, Emaciation, Etc. Due to Proctitis and Colitis] Reference
Patmos, riding on white horses, clothed in fine linen, white and clean, knights-errant in the everlasting war against the False. From Wordnik.com. [Westward Ho!] Reference
Fair knights, said Sir Lamorak, what do ye hoving here and watching? and if ye be knights-errant that will joust, lo I am ready. 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
I also finished Part 1 of Don Quixote, so I decided to take a break with some pirates before getting back to the knights-errant. From Wordnik.com. [Wonderful World : Bev Vincent] Reference
Aëronauts have been free and accepted members of this order of modern knights-errant, from hot-headed, ill-fated Pilâtre de Rozier down to. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 26, August, 1880 of Popular Literature and Science] Reference
Westerns are chivalrous tales of knights-errant on quests or hero-kings arising to save the people from oppression and restore order and peace and justice. From Wordnik.com. [Can a bold-talking one-eyed fat man be a hero-king?] Reference
So when they had reposed them, and spoken together, they took their horses and rode to a castle where dwelt an old knight that made all knights-errant good cheer. 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 heroes are the knights-errant of Greek legend. From Wordnik.com. [Dreams and Dream Stories] Reference
The books were almost always stories of knights-errant; the romances of. From Wordnik.com. [Historic Boyhoods] Reference
The following words had inconsistent spelling: knight-errants/knights-errant. From Wordnik.com. [The Red Romance Book] Reference
The Normans were a nation of knights-errant, with a passion for prowess and for courtesy. From Wordnik.com. [Brief History of English and American Literature] Reference
But apropos of your knights-errant, yonder are two of them, if I mistake not, making this way. From Wordnik.com. [The Flag of Distress A Story of the South Sea] Reference
Jericho -- We shall have as many knights-errant around us as ever had Charlemagne, or King Arthur. From Wordnik.com. [The Betrothed] Reference
After the fashion of the days of chivalry, the two knights-errant told each other their names and histories. From Wordnik.com. [Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 462 Volume 18, New Series, November 6, 1852] Reference
"It may well be so," replied Don Quixote, "because their number is much greater than that of knights-errant.". From Wordnik.com. [Wit and Wisdom of Don Quixote] Reference
Thiebault says he gave in largesses to knights-errant and minstrels more than he received in revenue (ch. xxix.). From Wordnik.com. [Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook, Vol. 3] Reference
Reinaldos of Montalban, and Don Roland and the rest of the Twelve Peers of France, for they were all knights-errant. From Wordnik.com. [The History of Don Quixote, Volume 2, Part 19] Reference
Quixote told him he had none, having never read in their histories that knights-errant provided themselves with money. From Wordnik.com. [Wit and Wisdom of Don Quixote] Reference
All these knights, and many more that I could name, senor curate, were knights-errant, the light and glory of chivalry. From Wordnik.com. [The History of Don Quixote, Volume 2, Part 19] Reference
The girls, less regardful of appearances, climbed down from the platform and started forward to meet their knights-errant. From Wordnik.com. [The Flyers] Reference
Well, if there must be knights-errant, there must also be more easy-going, flower-picking pilgrims in the pageant of life. From Wordnik.com. [The God of Love] Reference
And if it were not for this, knights-errant would not be able to give aid to one another in peril, as they do at every turn. From Wordnik.com. [The History of Don Quixote, Volume 1, Part 12] Reference
They were all true English hearts; and they came to their end like good knights-errant, in searching for the white gate that never was opened yet. From Wordnik.com. [The Water-Babies] Reference
"That was only reasonable," replied Sancho, "for, by what your worship says, misfortunes belong more properly to knights-errant than to their squires.". From Wordnik.com. [The History of Don Quixote, Volume 2, Part 19] Reference
They wandered forth at large, like two knights-errant, among the valleys, and the mountains, and the old mountain towns of that picturesque and lovely region. From Wordnik.com. [The Marble Faun - Volume 2 The Romance of Monte Beni] Reference
Revels, banquets, and repose, were invented for effeminate courtiers; but toil, disquietude, and arms alone were designed for those whom the world calls knights-errant. From Wordnik.com. [Wit and Wisdom of Don Quixote] Reference
Who was he that did not know that knights-errant are independent of all jurisdictions, that their law is their sword, their charter their prowess, and their edicts their will?. From Wordnik.com. [The History of Don Quixote, Volume 1, Part 14] Reference
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