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    chivalrous


    1. My parents taught to treat women with respect, that you should always be chivalrous and never hit a woman


    2. “Perhaps we could take a stroll through the orchards?” Wil asked Hayley in chivalrous tones


    3. He was chivalrous towards women, (albeit mostly to women of his own rank,) and absolutely ruthless towards the enemy


    4. 1)Faith (establish faith) we would have a religious, chivalrous, society living for the soul


    5. He was the most chivalrous man past or present, that I had ever met until Dave


    6. Zoe quietly laughed at Henry’s chivalrous offer


    7. Who knows with my chivalrous boy? He approached me, then we said goodbye to Aidan's family


    8. I felt tired of hugs and hungered for a kiss but Roy, ever chivalrous, didn’t even try


    9. "Whatever happened to chivalrous southern gentlemen?"


    10. Where are all the chivalrous women these days?

    11. Mustering up all of his chivalrous instincts, he took her hand and


    12. ” He graciously offered his hand to Mort in a chivalrous gesture


    13. What she did may be admirable and chivalrous, but it was also damn foolish


    14. chivalrous husband, Breckenridge was more concerned for her safety


    15. Hardly be chivalrous, would it? You know, I don't have any other clothes


    16. him in a far from chivalrous manner, and the dwarfs’ hair appeared to have


    17. ‘Should I make Roopa the captive of my eyes,’ he said, striking a chivalrous pose, ‘and bring her to you


    18. The person that can think of this idea, must be a chivalrous and


    19. “ Why should I avoid someone who did such a chivalrous thing, if Nigel’s going to ignore me?”


    20. “I’ll come with you,” Fred said, trying to sound brave and chivalrous

    21. Wanting to win only in a fair way is called chivalrous, isn’t it? And why would anybody want to be chivalrous?


    22. was far safer and he was no longer a boy with chivalrous


    23. Ruaidhri blushed, as any chivalrous soldier should


    24. ideal, as the mainspring of dramatic motiveand of chivalrous


    25. writings in the Middle Ages, the time ofunrestrained feelings and emotions, of chivalrous adventure


    26. in the play they mingle freely, treating each other withthe chivalrous respect that was characteristic of


    27. idealism, chivalrous customs, and in that partof Spain where tenacity of purpose has always been


    28. ticipate in the most chivalrous and gallant sport


    29. He let himself believe that he was some kind of chivalrous knight, duty-bound to serve this maiden in distress


    30. At that exact moment, everything that Jericho did for her could be summed up as chivalrous ways

    31. Monseigneur (often a most worthy individual gentleman) was a national blessing, gave a chivalrous tone to things, was a polite example of luxurious and shining fife, and a great deal more to equal purpose; nevertheless, Monseigneur as a class had, somehow or other, brought things to this


    32. Blessed be heaven! for by means of this history of your noble and genuine chivalrous deeds, which you say has been printed, the countless stories of fictitious knights-errant with which the world is filled, so much to the injury of morality and the prejudice and discredit of good histories, will have been driven into oblivion


    33. The purport of it was to invite him to dinner, and to ridicule his chivalrous respect for me


    34. "She abandoned them under a delusion," he answered; "picturing in me a hero of romance, and expecting unlimited indulgences from my chivalrous devotion


    35. How could a man who reacted with such rueful, chivalrous good humor to a really annoying inconvenience be the same person who treated a nineteen-year-old girl with such cruelty?


    36. But even in that enviable situation, he was affable, and distinguished as much for his attention to the forms of courtesy, as for that chivalrous courage which, only two short years afterward, induced him to throw away his life on the plains of Abraham


    37. Pages might yet be written to prove, from this illustrious example, the defects of human excellence; to show how easy it is for generous sentiments, high courtesy, and chivalrous courage to lose their influence beneath the chilling blight of selfishness, and to exhibit to the world a man who was great in all the minor attributes of character, but who was found wanting when it became necessary to prove how much principle is superior to policy


    38. It seemed as if a chivalrous desire to spare the feelings of their victims had always prevented them from doing or saying anything to them in the presence of witnesses


    39. Then did you, chivalrous Terence, hand forth, as to the manner born, that nectarous beverage and you offered the crystal cup to him that thirsted, the soul of chivalry, in beauty akin to the immortals


    40. The high object of our mission, the consciousness that it was unselfish and chivalrous, the villainous character of our opponent, all added to the sporting interest of the adventure

    41. ‘Oh, a great deal! And I know that he’s her favorite; still one can see how chivalrous he is


    42. Mr Samgrass's deft editorship had assembled and arranged a curiously homogeneous little body of writing - poetry, letters, scraps of a journal, an unpublished essay or two, which all exhaled the same high-spirited, serious, chivalrous, otherworldly air and the letters from their contemporaries, written after their deaths, all in varying degrees of articulateness, told the same tale of men who were, in all the full flood of academic and athletic success, of popularity and the promise of great rewards ahead, seen somehow as set apart from their fellows, garlanded victims, devoted to the sacrifice


    43. She had not known that men could be so disinterested, chivalrous, protective, in their love for women as he


    44. For those who want to be acquainted with Lydgate it will be good to know what was that case of impetuous folly, for it may stand as an example of the fitful swerving of passion to which he was prone, together with the chivalrous kindness which helped to make him morally lovable


    45. Very few men could have been as filial and chivalrous as he was to the mother, aunt, and sister, whose dependence on him had in many ways shaped his life rather uneasily for himself; few men who feel the pressure of small needs are so nobly resolute not to dress up their inevitably self-interested desires in a pretext of better motives


    46. But he had a chivalrous nature (was not the disinterested service of woman among the ideal glories of old chivalry?): his disregarded love had not turned to bitterness; its death had made sweet odors—floating memories that clung with a consecrating effect to Dorothea


    47. “My prince, is that chivalrous?” asked Ser Lyonel Baratheon as the septon was finishing his invocation


    48. “That was chivalrous of him,” Dunk had to admit


    49. Dunk wondered if gallant was a chivalrous way of saying clumsy


    50. Mori was chivalrous enough not to mention it


























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    Synonyms for "chivalrous"

    chivalrous gallant knightly courtly noble polite courteous dauntless

    "chivalrous" definitions

    being attentive to women like an ideal knight