errantry
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Wodehouse playing the part of Cervantes in affectionately revealing the absurdity of knight errantry in the new social circumstances.
From Time Magazine Archive
Throughout his 60 years of public life, Winston Churchill has managed better than any other Briton to suffuse the political scene with the spirit of knight errantry.
From Time Magazine Archive
But her brothers, Elladan and Elrohir, were out upon errantry: for they rode often far afield with the Rangers of the North, forgetting never their mother’s torment in the dens of the orcs.
From "The Fellowship of the Ring" by J.R.R. Tolkien
Cervantes ridiculed the fooleries and affectation ingrafted upon knight errantry.
From The Works of Samuel Johnson, Volume 05 Miscellaneous Pieces by Johnson, Samuel
Amadas finds himself financially embarrassed, and sets forth for seven years of errantry with only forty pounds in hand.
From The Grateful Dead The History of a Folk Story by Gerould, Gordon Hall
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