knight errant

For two days he had faced death, fighting like a legionary or a knight-errant, and in short playing the hero.

He ought to have been born six or seven hundred years ago, he would have made a delightful knight-errant.

As I live his horse is a mule—what a pity it was not some knight-errant!

What can be more beautiful than a knight-errant's life, when he has good weapons, and more common sense than Don Quixote had?

I had already become a redresser of grievances; there only wanted a lady in the way to be a knight-errant in form.