knight of the road
Example Sentences
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I have, for the time being, assumed the habiliments of a knight of the road, for certain purposes of my own.
From The Outdoor Girls of Deepdale Or, camping and tramping for fun and health by Hope, Laura Lee
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 Lyman, Olin L.
Ah, to be knight of the road and everlasting squire to the Goddess of Love!
From Truxton King A Story of Graustark by McCutcheon, George Barr
Why, what is he?—a trickster, a knight of the road.
From The Highwayman by Bailey, H. C. (Henry Christopher)
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 Fanning, C. E. (Clara Elizabeth)
