Quixotic (romantic and impractical) behavior.
1 His conquests were conducted on what might almost be called principles of knight errantry .
2 See what his crazy knight errantry had brought about.
3 We were going on an adventure of knight errantry in which we might win our spurs.
4 We wait in the nursery for the bridegroom and his father to ride home from their mission of knight errantry .
5 Maclise was a romanticist, in thrall to images of medieval knight errantry on an epic and, almost certainly, illusory scale.
6 To Christopher's surprise, Cynthia was the single member of the family who showed a sympathy with his reckless knight errantry .
7 I am not in this land for knight errantry , but I am here to make head against the King's enemies.
8 In the days of knight errantry , every one meeting a stranger had to suppose him an enemy; ten to one he was.
9 You were born two hundred years too late; the ancient days of knight errantry and chivalry would have suited you better than these.
10 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 .
11 So he took her home, and his Knight Errantry was justified at last.
12 "And perhaps just a bit of knight errantry ? "
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