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Sentence Examples
| All this seems true to Cervantes's aim of exposing the absurdity of knight errantry, while conveying the holy madness of his hero. |
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| Sancho, as Kafka remarked, is a free man, but Don Quixote is metaphysically and psychologically bound by his dedication to knight errantry. |
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| The film is intriguing as Chandler's attempt to move beyond the romantic knight errantry of Philip Marlowe novels and into more social realist territory. |
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| Remember how reluctantly Cervantes says farewell to his Don Quixote, who has been on his deathbed, and who has, at the last moment, renounced his knight errantry. |
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| Some even speak of a 'radical reform of capitalism', an expression which says much about the degree of errantry and isolation affecting many political decision-makers. |
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Examples from Classical Literature
| But my strolling, my errantry ended here at last at the steps of this altar, as I knew. |
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| Meseemeth I must leave this land and ride at errantry, for all I desired is vanished. |
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| Border warfare, with its frequent change of scene and constant alarms, was a fitting introduction to errantry. |
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| The day will never come, I hope, when we shall degenerate into the footpad, and lose our Night errantry. |
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| The knight errant had heard the canon's question, and he offered to give him the information if he knew anything about errantry. |
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| And when peace was on the land, he went about on errantry, jousting in tournaments and fighting champions. |
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| Amadas finds himself financially embarrassed, and sets forth for seven years of errantry with only forty pounds in hand. |
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| Direction, errantry, exile, and the changes that accompany displacement in time and space, are recurrent themes throughout the novel. |
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| In the first place, it was a furtive, underhand blow at this nonsense of knight errantry, though nobody suspected that but me. |
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| Indeed, throughout his writings Glissant eloquently pleads for tactics of errantry and nomadology, which he deploys against the discourses of sameness. |
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