The word knight, which originally meant boy or servant, was particularly applied to a young man after he was admitted to the privilege of bearing arms.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
It even has the same phraseology as the English orders of knighthood, companions and this sort of thing.
I found the offer of a knighthood something that I couldn't possibly accept. I found it to be somehow squalid, a knighthood. There's a relationship to government about knights.
The preparatory education of candidates for knighthood was long and arduous.
I don't know why they gave me a knighthood - though it's very nice of them - but I only ever use the title in the U.S. The Americans insist on it and get offended if I don't.
Technically, I'm a knight. My family goes back a thousand years in the Naples area. We're a titled, noble people.
Knight without fear and without reproach.
And though it is much to be a nobleman, it is more to be a gentleman.
One of the nicest things about receiving the accolade of Australia is that, previously, the knighthood was historically for what was termed 'the establishment.' Now, this is an accolade for somebody who comes from a working-class background. Someone whose father was a truck driver and decided to buy a truck.
A true knight is fuller of bravery in the midst, than in the beginning of danger.
The judge is not the knight-errant, roaming at will in pursuit of his own ideal of beauty or of goodness.
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