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errantry

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er·rant·ry  (rn-tr)
n.
The condition of traveling or roving about, especially in search of adventure.


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From those early impressions, the grand enterprise of the great fur companies, and the hazardous errantry of their associates in the wild parts of our vast continent, have always been themes of charmed interest to me; and I have felt anxious to get at the details of their adventurous expeditions among the savage tribes that peopled the depths of the wilderness.
In the first place, it was a furtive, underhand blow at this nonsense of knight errantry, though nobody suspected that but me.
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.
 
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