paladin

Example Sentences

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Upon finding a woman’s purse with enough gold to so revolve his predicaments, he chooses to return the windfall, instantly turning into a paladin of honesty worthy of public admiration.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 14, 2022

In a nation trying to come to grips with racial inequality in the 1960s, Mr. Vivian was a paladin of nonviolence on the front lines of bloody confrontations.

From New York Times • Jul. 17, 2020

Helpless against the ogre in the white castle looming over their town, they hired Sir Robert, peerless paladin of republican virtue, and sent him forth against the monster.

From Slate • Mar. 25, 2019

You dress up as an elf warlock or half-orc paladin.

From Seattle Times • Sep. 26, 2018

Here was slain the famous paladin, Roland, the Count of Brittany, who became the theme of poets down to the time of Ariosto.

From A History of Germany From the Earliest Times to the Present Day by Taylor, Bayard