It was a matter of knight-errantry and ladies fair!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Then I'll Come Back to You] Reference

ALQUIFE, an enchanter in the mediaeval romances of knight-errantry.    From Wordnik.com.  [Redgauntlet] Reference

“What nobler knight-errantry?” said Frank, cheerfully; but Mrs. Leigh shuddered.    From Wordnik.com.  [Westward Ho!] Reference

Over there I was in constant fear for him because of his knight-errantry and his candor.    From Wordnik.com.  [Appreciations of Richard Harding Davis] Reference

Women love to engage in knight-errantry, now-and-then, as well as to encourage it in the men.    From Wordnik.com.  [Clarissa Harlowe] Reference

This book was not intended to satirize knight-errantry itself, for that had long before died out in Spain.    From Wordnik.com.  [Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 7] Reference

Ellie has been reading or listening to tales of knight-errantry, and her mind is full of them, so that the.    From Wordnik.com.  [Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 8] Reference

And when peace was on the land, he went about on errantry, jousting in tournaments and fighting champions.    From Wordnik.com.  [King Arthur's Knights The Tales Re-told for Boys & Girls] Reference

Sancho Panza, rides forth to perform deeds of knight-errantry, but meets, instead, the most absurd adventures.    From Wordnik.com.  [Early European History] Reference

"Not a bad record of knight-errantry for a confirmed woman-hater, is it?" she added with a rueful touch of humour.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Vision of Desire] Reference

"That of knight – errantry," said Don Quixote, "which is as good as that of poetry, and even a finger or two above it.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Don Quixote] Reference

The book is a harmless picaresque, a geste of innocent rogue errantry; its place is with Lavengro and The Cloister and the.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Growth of the Soil] Reference

In the spirit of poetic errantry he determines to comply with this intimation: he therefore takes pen in hand, makes with it.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon] Reference

He tarried there from errantry, and melodies they taught to him, and sages old him marvels told, and harps of gold they brought to him.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Fellowship of the Ring]

In fine, he represented excellently one of those giants of popular romance, who figure in every fairy tale or legend of knight-errantry.    From Wordnik.com.  [Kenilworth] Reference

The absurdities into which the genius of Cervantes hurried Don Quixote and Sancho served to moderate the extravagances of knight-errantry.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Violin Its Famous Makers and Their Imitators] Reference

She told him repeatedly how chivalrous he was and so cast a glow of knight-errantry over impulses that are not usually seen in that light.    From Wordnik.com.  [Scales of Justice]

The glory of feudalism, as a system of society, is departed; and its attendant glories of knight-errantry and human slavery are departed with it.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 5, No. 5, May, 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy] Reference

Quixote observing all these strange proceedings attentively without uttering a word, and attributing the whole to chimeras of knight – errantry.    From Wordnik.com.  [Don Quixote] Reference

But the splendid spirit of knight-errantry, which shone so vividly with the fire of enthusiasm in medieval days, is still abroad in our midst to-day.    From Wordnik.com.  [Memoir and Letters of Francis W. Newman] Reference

The changes in the mode of warfare which helped to do away with the feudal baron and his mail-clad retainers, likewise tended to destroy knight errantry.    From Wordnik.com.  [General History for Colleges and High Schools] Reference

The days of knight-errantry, when men were chivalrous and women were merely beautiful, should not last forever; women, too, should learn to be chivalrous.    From Wordnik.com.  [Daybreak; a Romance of an Old World] Reference

Tales of knight-errantry and chivalry were always in her hands, and bore their noxious fruit in the wild dreams of ambition they fired in the girl's mind.    From Wordnik.com.  [Alvira, the Heroine of Vesuvius] Reference

Mr. Shaw protests needlessly that he holds no brief for small States as such, and he most vehemently denies that we are bound to knight errantry on their behalf.    From Wordnik.com.  [New York Times, Current History, Vol 1, Issue 1 From the Beginning to March, 1915 With Index] Reference

Quixote uttered, and to see how well acquainted he was with everything relating or belonging to the achievements of his knight – errantry; so he said in reply.    From Wordnik.com.  [Don Quixote] Reference

My only endeavour is to convince the world of the mistake it makes in not reviving in itself the happy time when the order of knight – errantry was in the field.    From Wordnik.com.  [Don Quixote] Reference

Times and ideas have changed since the days of feudalism, and the South only repeats in behalf of slavery the tragic farce of Don Quixote in behalf of knight-errantry.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 5, No. 5, May, 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy] Reference

At the same time I hold no brief for small States as such, and most vehemently deny that we are in any way bound to knight errantry on their behalf as against big ones.    From Wordnik.com.  [New York Times, Current History, Vol 1, Issue 1 From the Beginning to March, 1915 With Index] Reference

So when John and he left Italy, under pressure from the natives, Charles was competent to represent his father at home, while the latter went off on his knight-errantry.    From Wordnik.com.  [From a Terrace in Prague] Reference