Errant [adjective]

To be checkmated by an 'errant' pawn in the very middle of the board is a most ignominious way of losing the game.

For two days he had faced death, fighting like a legionary or a knight-errant, and in short playing the hero.

Chasing an errant swarm of bees is nothing to following a naked lunatic when the fit of escaping is upon him!

He ought to have been born six or seven hundred years ago, he would have made a delightful knight-errant.

As I live his horse is a mule—what a pity it was not some knight-errant!

Occasionally X. would feel drawn towards some other girl, but such errant inclinations never lasted long.

What can be more beautiful than a knight-errant's life, when he has good weapons, and more common sense than Don Quixote had?

I had already become a redresser of grievances; there only wanted a lady in the way to be a knight-errant in form.

A knight-errant among badgers, he sought adventure for the sake of a lady-love whose face he had not even seen.

The fame and brilliancy of the prince's court had drawn the knights-errant and pursuivants-of-arms from every part of Europe.