knight errant
Example Sentences
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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
Lots of shoes are practical, but only this one was worn by the cowboy: an American folk hero, a knight-errant figure with world-wide appeal.
From The Wall Street Journal • Aug. 21, 2018
After lecturing Sancho Panza upon the duty of a knight-errant in meditation upon his lady, he became irritated with the squire because he could not understand the reason for his amorous fury.
From Legends & Romances of Spain by Spence, Lewis
