I don't think his division benefited by such carpet-knight doings in the field. ❋ DOUGLAS SOUTHALL FREEMAN (2001)
The carpet-knight, the holiday ranger, the book-worm explorer, knows but little of the herculean work which has furnished for the world a practical knowledge of the western half of the North American continent. ❋ De Witt C. Peters (N/A)
He was no carpet-knight; he had the true adventurer's blood in his veins. ❋ Leon H. Vincent (N/A)
His superstition is debasing and repellent, but works harm only in limited spheres, and it is counterbalanced by the fact that he had been a part of many events recounted and had held high governmental offices, enjoying a career which furnished him with standards by which to judge the likelihood of allegations regarding earlier periods of Rome, -- that, in a word, he was no mere carpet-knight of History. ❋ Cassius Dio (N/A)
QUOTATION: Accustom him to everything, that he may not be a Sir Paris, a carpet-knight, 1 but a sinewy, hardy, and vigorous young man. ❋ Unknown (1919)
"Body of God!" gasped Ercole, upon whose mind intruded a grotesque picture of such a company as he would assemble, being led by this mincing carpet-knight. ❋ Rafael Sabatini (1912)
Such compounds are of course much used; but they are ugly when they are otiose; it might be worth while to talk of a war-famous brewer, or of a peace-famous general, just as we often have occasion to speak of a carpet-knight, but of a carpet-broom only if it is necessary to guard against mistake. ❋ Unknown (1908)
Porticobello House, and I had solicited her to become a copartner with this unassuming self in the maziness of a waltz; but, not being the carpet-knight, and consequently treading the measure with too great frequency upon the toes of my fair auxiliary, she suggested a temporary withdrawal from circulation. ❋ F. Anstey (1895)
A valiant carpet-knight, skilled in all parlor exercises, great at whist or euchre, a dream of a dancer, unexcelled in Cakewalk or "coon" impersonations, for which he was in large social demand, Ellis had seen him kick an inoffensive negro out of his path and treat a poor-white man with scant courtesy. ❋ Unknown (1895)
A man who could pen such a signature need have no regret for not being a carpet-knight besides. ❋ Henry Blake Fuller (1893)
Alessandria with 5000 men, was a brilliant carpet-knight and gallant soldier, but had little experience as a general, and had no confidence in his ill-paid and half-starved troops. ❋ Julia Mary Cartwright Ady (1887)
German, Italian, and Spanish, of course he must dare all sorts of perilous travel, if only to prove that he was no carpet-knight, no mere ❋ Tupper, Martin F (1886)
The air of the carpet-knight with which he had opened battle disappeared; he fought seriously and for victory. ❋ Humphry Ward (1885)
Until recently, there were still many people who thought of Wagner as a youthful and eccentric enthusiast, all afire with misdirected genius, a mere carpet-knight on the sublime battle-field of art, a beginner just sowing his wild-oats in works like ❋ Ferris, George T (1878)
He was setting out upon an adventure wild and impracticable as the quest of Jason and his Argonauts; and this gallant captain was a carpet-knight, sufficiently adventurous and audacious in the diplomatic crusades of society, but in nowise eager to hazard his life on tented field and in thick press of war. ❋ Unknown (1875)
It is a peep, a part revelation, just sufferable, of the Olympian god -- Jove playing carpet-knight. ❋ George Meredith (1868)
A carpet-knight was one whose heroism lay more in rhetorical visions addressed to his partner in the intervals of dancing than in hard blows given and taken in the field. ❋ Emily Sarah Holt (1864)
You know that while not a soldier I am also not a carpet-knight and have not idled in ladies 'bowers. ❋ Edward Payson Roe (1863)
