knight of the road
Example Sentences
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How do you fancy me as a knight of the road?
From The Yeoman Adventurer by Gough, George W.
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 Hancock, H. Irving (Harrie Irving)
Dandy was a would-be knight of the road.
From The Border Legion by Grey, Zane
Her better judgment told her that she could be nothing to this debonair knight of the road, yet her heart stubbornly resisted all the arguments that her reason put forth.
From Beverly of Graustark by McCutcheon, George Barr
Bailey being one day at an alehouse, not far from Moorfields, fell into the conversation of an Irishman, of a very gay alert temper perfectly suited to the humour of our knight of the road.
From Lives of the Most Remarkable Criminals Who have been Condemned and Executed for Murder, the Highway, Housebreaking, Street Robberies, Coining or other offences by Hayward, Arthur L.
