knight errant
Example Sentences
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The coach is a Knight-errant, a good man with a blemish on his record that only redemptive labors can expunge.
From Time Magazine Archive
Her personages were masked under fictitious names; the Poet, the Haunted Man, the Knight-errant, the Chanting Tenor, and the Bishop, all figured in her recitals, to which Anne listened with intense interest.
From Anne by Woolson, Constance Fenimore
The Knight-errant is very decidedly some one else.
From Anne by Woolson, Constance Fenimore
Knight-errant, paladin, king among men,—what irony, child, in that strange dream and infatuation of thine!
From Audrey by Johnston, Mary
Conquest is the last thing a woman cares to resign; but I should be very sorry to have you in the desperate state of my Knight-errant.
From Life And Letters Of John Gay (1685-1732) by Melville, Lewis
