knight errant
Example Sentences
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The 16th-century novelist Miguel de Cervantes framed his fictional story of the knight-errant Don Quixote as the translation of a recovered Arabic manuscript.
From New York Times • Aug. 30, 2022
Nonetheless, he is regarded by some in the astronomy community as a knight-errant, tilting at windmills.
From Scientific American • Jul. 29, 2021
One man came as a patriotic duck; another as a bald eagle; another as a cross between a knight-errant and Captain America; another as Abraham Lincoln.
From Seattle Times • Jan. 7, 2021
In Cervantes’s classic novel, a student tells the knight-errant Don Quixote, “The greater the fame of the writer, the more closely his books are scrutinized.”
From Washington Post • Sep. 3, 2019
He felt, to be candid, a trifle awkward in the r�le of knight-errant, a part reserved in those days for Lord Peterborough.
From Sophia A Romance by Weyman, Stanley John
