knight errantry

See what his crazy knight errantry had brought about.

"And perhaps just a bit of knight errantry?"

Of course Bobby's knight errantry was a bit difficult for Moira.

The concept is similar to Knight Errantry in feudal Europe.

I laid off your self-destructive knight errantry.

I am not in this land for knight errantry, but I am here to make head against the King's enemies.

In the first place, it was a furtive, underhand blow at this nonsense of knight errantry, though nobody suspected that but me.

This is not the first time that Mr. Taubman's knight errantry has landed him in trouble.

President Olivier might be called a visionary or a nuisance; but even his enemies admitted that he was magnanimous to the point of knight errantry.

Instead, it concludes with Quixote's half-mad paean to knight errantry; reality and illusion remain confused till the end.

The sentiment was praiseworthy, but the action wasfoolhardy: the object of his knight errantry hardly worthy of suchfierce loyalty.

You know that when your retinue of admirers sees you looking ravishing but vulnerable, they will rush to your side in fits of knight errantry."

Satirical parodies of knight errantry (and contemporary politics) appeared with works such as Heinrich Wittenwiler's Ring (c. 1410).

Thirteen hundred years ago a chap named Mallory had written a book about knight errantry, it had unhappily faded from Ole Doc's mind.

And indeed, much has always been said about this extraordinary epic, narrating the misadventures of a half-mad hidalgo who seeks to re-establish the traditions of knight errantry.

In the novel, Don Quixote pursues a life of knight errantry, roaming the land seeking chivalrous adventures in an attempt to maintain the culture of his nostalgia.

It was through her that he was exposed to tales of knight errantry like Don Quixote, Amadis de Gaula, and El Cid.

Michael Murphy's "Golf in the Kingdom" is the best-selling golf novel ever published, maybe because it's as much about metaphysics as it is about golf - about golf as spiritual knight errantry.

Percy and Astley were young and hot-headed with wild visions of dashing deeds and knight errantry, but Knolles with cold, clear brain and purpose of iron held ever his object in view.

According to Dr. James J.Y. Liu (1926-1986), a professor of Chinese and comparative literature, Jia's poem The Swordsman "seems...to sum up the spirit of knight errantry in four lines."

"It seemed to me that everything that happened here was actually happening. . . . For that reason I was overcome by rage, and to fulfill the obligations of the knight errantry I profess I wanted to give my help and favor to those who were fleeing."