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knight errant

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The worthy knight not being now alive to veto the project, a figure of him has been placed opposite the College in Edmund Street.

SHOWELL'S DICTIONARY OF BIRMINGHAMTHOMAS T. HARMAN AND WALTER SHOWELL

That brave knight was my great, great grandfather, and he has often sat in this very chair in which I am sitting now.

The handsome person and gallant bearing of the youthful knight excited general sympathy and regret.

But to a Knight of Industry, as he knew the Count to be, a certain thousand pounds would be a great temptation.

According to Froissart, he was 'esteemed the bravest and most enterprising knight in the two kingdoms.'

The knight's lay falls into two stanzas, one of five, and one of six lines, as marked.

Mr. Knight is a man of business, and will hold his position with others if he have but half a chance.

To be checkmated by an 'errant' pawn in the very middle of the board is a most ignominious way of losing the game.

See the long account of this in the Knight de la Tour Landry, ed.

He talked of fighting the emperor Leopold, like a knight seeking adventures.

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OCTOBER 26, 1985