knight of the road

Example Sentences

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But the knight of the road was evidently very impatient.

From The Heart of Denise and Other Tales by Levett-Yeats, S. (Sidney)

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.

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)

At Lagny, with her own men and the Scots, the Maid fought and took one Franquet d’Arras, a Burgundian “routier,” or knight of the road, who plundered that country without mercy. 

From A Monk of Fife by Lang, Andrew

Dandy was a would-be knight of the road.

From The Border Legion by Grey, Zane