knight of the road
Example Sentences
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The newspaper spirit had its embodiment in Micky O'Byrn, the tattered knight of the road whose first story electrified the city editor of the Courier.
From The Lash by Lyman, Olin L.
Suddenly though his jaw dropped and, replacing his battered headpiece, with double-handed indecent haste the knight of the road executed an incredibly nimble "right-about turn" and vanished behind the station-house.
From The Luck of the Mounted A Tale of the Royal Northwest Mounted Police by Kendall, Ralph S.
Why, what is he?—a trickster, a knight of the road.
From The Highwayman by Bailey, H. C. (Henry Christopher)
"The young girl's health, gentlemen, with three times three, and may her husband be a match for her in good looks," cried one admiring knight of the road; and then the toast was drunk.
From Stories by English Authors: England by Hardy, Thomas
But the knight of the road was evidently very impatient.
From The Heart of Denise and Other Tales by Levett-Yeats, S. (Sidney)
