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To be checkmated by an 'errant' pawn in the very middle of the board is a most ignominious way of losing the game.
For two days he had faced death, fighting like a legionary or a knight-errant, and in short playing the hero.
OVERLANDJOHN WILLIAM DE FOREST
Chasing an errant swarm of bees is nothing to following a naked lunatic when the fit of escaping is upon him!
DRACULABRAM STOKER
He ought to have been born six or seven hundred years ago, he would have made a delightful knight-errant.
A ROVING COMMISSIONG. A. HENTY
As I live his horse is a mule—what a pity it was not some knight-errant!
THE TIGER HUNTERMAYNE REID
Occasionally X. would feel drawn towards some other girl, but such errant inclinations never lasted long.
THE SEXUAL LIFE OF THE CHILDALBERT MOLL
What can be more beautiful than a knight-errant's life, when he has good weapons, and more common sense than Don Quixote had?
COLUMBAPROSPER MERIMEE
I had already become a redresser of grievances; there only wanted a lady in the way to be a knight-errant in form.
THE CONFESSIONS OF J. J. ROUSSEAU, COMPLETEJEAN JACQUES ROUSSEAU
A knight-errant among badgers, he sought adventure for the sake of a lady-love whose face he had not even seen.
CREATURES OF THE NIGHTALFRED W. REES
The fame and brilliancy of the prince's court had drawn the knights-errant and pursuivants-of-arms from every part of Europe.
THE WHITE COMPANYARTHUR CONAN DOYLE
WORDS RELATED TO ERRANT
- agee
- anfractuous
- angular
- asymmetric
- awry
- bowed
- catawampus
- circuitous
- cockeyed
- contorted
- crippled
- curved
- curving
- deformed
- deviating
- devious
- disfigured
- distorted
- errant
- gnarled
- hooked
- incurving
- indirect
- irregular
- kinky
- knurly
- lopsided
- meandering
- misshapen
- not straight
- oblique
- out of shape
- rambling
- roundabout
- screwy
- serpentine
- sinuous
- skewed
- slanted
- snaky
- spiral
- tilted
- topsy-turvy
- tortile
- tortuous
- twisted
- twisting
- uneven
- warped
- winding
- zigzag
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.