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So, while Morgenstern makes the mammoths migrate around some Playmobil arctic scenery, Kurtzhau and I set up a tent for Sir Wolfram, who then hangs his shield on a tree for passing knight errants.

zornhau: Kurtzhau and Zornhau on the road to Neverwhen zornhau 2010

And yes, it's easy to get distracted by all the other things that have to get done: lawn, doctor's appointments (and we have lots), being available for the repair man who you know will arrive the moment you actually get your brain in the book, groceries, special errants, cleaning the house (well, theoretically :), and so on.

Day Off jimhines 2010

As heirs of the medieval Christian ethos coupled with romantic ideals, women were expected to depend upon the loving kindness of knight errants, men who retained all the power, did all the fighting, and bestowed the rewards as largesse on women.

Deepak Chopra: Can Women Get God on Their Side? 2009

Bonne nouvelle signée MySpace qui vient de supprimer 29.000 profils de délinquants sexuels américains errants sur son espace qui compte 80 millions internautes.

MySpace supprime les profils de 29′000 “délinquants sexuels” — Climb to the Stars 2007

Bonne nouvelle signée MySpace qui vient de supprimer 29.000 profils de délinquants sexuels américains errants sur son espace qui compte 80 millions internautes.

2007 July — Climb to the Stars 2007

Consciousness of guilt, a fiery temper, and a wild imagination, the common ingredients of enthusiasm, made this madman devote himself to the particular service of the Virgin Mary; whose knight-errant he declared himself, in the very same form in which the old knight-errants in romances used to declare themselves the knights and champions of certain beautiful and incomparable princesses, whom sometimes they had, but oftener had not, seen.

Letters to his son on The Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman 2005

This he very glibly swallowed, on the notion of my being one of those unhappy street-errants who devote themselves to the pleasure of the first ruffian that will stoop to pick them up, and of course, that I would scarce bilk myself of my hire, by my not returning to make the most of the job.

Fanny Hill: Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure 2004

Don Quixote was dubbed by his landlord; and there are many instances on record, of errants obliging and compelling the next person they met to cross their shoulders, and dub them knights.

The Life and Adventures of Sir Launcelot Greaves 2004

Sir, said the mariners, wit ye well this king and knight that here lieth was a full worshipful man and of full great prowess, and full well he loved all manner knights errants.

Le Morte d'Arthur: Sir Thomas Malory's book of King Arthur and of his noble knights of the Round table 2003

They have only one point in common, their attack and ridicule of the romances of chivalry and of the wildly improbable adventures of knight-errants.

Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002