kitchen-knave

"Let be," said the damsel, "thou foul kitchen-knave, slay him not, for if thou do, thou shalt repent it."

Stories of King Arthur and His Knights Retold from Malory's "Morte dArthur" U. Waldo Cutler

"Nay, nay," said she, "this unlucky kitchen-knave hath slain your brother through mischance."

Stories of King Arthur and His Knights Retold from Malory's "Morte dArthur" U. Waldo Cutler

'Sir Knight, you are wrong to put a kitchen-knave beside me,' said the lady, 'for I am of noble birth.'

Stories of King Arthur's Knights Told to the Children by Mary MacGregor Mary Esther Miller MacGregor 1918

Once more Gareth went back to Lynette a conqueror, but still she cried, 'Do not come near me, kitchen-knave.

Stories of King Arthur's Knights Told to the Children by Mary MacGregor Mary Esther Miller MacGregor 1918

Now Lynette was more cross than ever because Lancelot had left her, and when Gareth at last rode up to her, she cried rudely, 'You are only a kitchen-knave.

Stories of King Arthur's Knights Told to the Children by Mary MacGregor Mary Esther Miller MacGregor 1918

But she knew that even the Black Knight would not frighten her kitchen-knave.

Stories of King Arthur's Knights Told to the Children by Mary MacGregor Mary Esther Miller MacGregor 1918

In the great kitchen the scullions fell asleep as they were washing up the dishes, and a cook in the very act of boxing the ears of a kitchen-knave.

The Sleeping Beauty Arthur Rackham 1913

At the sink a kitchen-knave was leaning over the pot he had been scouring.

The Sleeping Beauty Arthur Rackham 1913

The hero of it is a son, not a brother, of Gawain, comes nameless or nicknamed, but as "Beaufils," not "Beaumains," to Arthur's court, and is knighted at once, not made to go through the "kitchen-knave" stage.

The English Novel George Saintsbury 1889

[Footnote 165: Some of these adventures remind us of the story of the kitchen-knave as told in Tennyson's Gareth and Lynette.]

Theodoric the Goth Barbarian Champion of Civilisation Thomas Hodgkin 1872