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Examples from Classical Literature
Of course, to a gentleman of my knight-errantry, that was sufficient to fire my blood.
Too late, Mr. Cheveril, in spite of your sudden display of knight-errantry!
When knight-errantry is proposed to him, he reduces that also to the established order.
Of a sudden there came an adventure which gave opening for knight-errantry.
This elderly New-Englander had in him none of the spirit of knight-errantry.
By this knight-errantry the advantages which ought to have been pursued were frequently lost.
I have incurred the contempt of mankind by my knight-errantry.
But have patience till I tell you the story of my knight-errantry.
In the stoutness of his knight-errantry, he seemed to think the last-named protection all sufficient.
And there was Don Quixote observing all these strange proceedings attentively without uttering a word, and attributing the whole to chimeras of knight-errantry.
Knight-errantry is a most chuckle-headed trade, and it is tedious hard work, too, but I begin to see that there IS money in it, after all, if you have luck.
