knight-errants

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

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

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

May heaven be praised, we are as poor as knight-errants already.

The Beau Defeated: or, The Lucky Younger Brother 1999

Each of these knight-errants of literature was supposed to choose a lady-love, and it made no difference if she were already married.

Woman's Work in Music Arthur Elson

The cry for war sounded, and Garibaldi led three thousand men, including Ugo Bassi and the noblest of knight-errants.

Heroes of Modern Europe Alice Birkhead

I confess I did not sleep all night with reflecting on what had passed, and could not resolve with myself whether these humorous gentlemen in masquerade were to be ranked under the denomination of knight-errants, or plain robbers.

Lives of the Most Remarkable Criminals Who have been Condemned and Executed for Murder, the Highway, Housebreaking, Street Robberies, Coining or other offences Arthur L. Hayward

Our return would be leisurely, stopping here and there, at out-of-the-way places, camping-out whenever the fancy seized us and the opportunity offered, to hunt, to fish, to rest, being for the time knight-errants of pleasure, or, as the

The Bay State Monthly — Volume 2, No. 1, October, 1884 Various

The statement that there is in Dr Francis's collection a "complete set of the Recueil des Causes Célèbres, collected by Maurice Mejan, in eighteen volumes -- a scarce and valuable work" -- would throw any of our black-letter knight-errants into convulsions of laughter.

The Book-Hunter A New Edition, with a Memoir of the Author John Hill Burton

A fair challenge, by this light! this is a pretty fair opening of an adventure; but we are knight-errants, and so Fortune be our guide.

The Beaux-Stratagem George Farquhar