knight errant
Example Sentences
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The coach is a Knight-errant, a good man with a blemish on his record that only redemptive labors can expunge.
From Time Magazine Archive
Even the Knight-errant is not, I am sorry to say, above suspicion.
From Anne by Woolson, Constance Fenimore
Although she—Anne—had mistaken the fictitious titles, still, even under the title, there had been no such open appropriation of the Knight-errant.
From Anne by Woolson, Constance Fenimore
He hesitated whether to address the King as the Black Knight-errant, or in what other manner to demean himself towards him.
From Ivanhoe by Scott, Walter, Sir
Knight-errant, paladin, king among men,—what irony, child, in that strange dream and infatuation of thine!
From Audrey by Johnston, Mary
