knight of the road
Example Sentences
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The name of "Jim Joggers" has given way to the real name of that former knight of the road.
From The High School Boys' Training Hike by H. Irving (Harrie Irving) Hancock
Why, what is he?—a trickster, a knight of the road.
From The Highwayman by H. C. (Henry Christopher) Bailey
At its conclusion the breathless and perspiring knight of the road wearily took the back trail, and a vacant-faced "red-cap" came out to relieve him of his grip.
From Toaster's Handbook Jokes, Stories, and Quotations by C. E. (Clara Elizabeth) Fanning
The newspaper spirit had its embodiment in Micky O'Byrn, the tattered knight of the road whose first story electrified the city editor of the Courier.
From The Lash by Olin L. Lyman
In their place was the unmistakable omnium gatherum of an accomplished knight of the road.
From The Twins of Table Mountain by Bret Harte
