chivalry

He picks me up from Los Angeles International Airport — an act of chivalry that deserves knighthood.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 12, 2026

The Psychology of Women Quarterly study shows just how much the notion of chivalry is actually a myth.

From Salon ● Apr. 8, 2026

The earl of Arundel’s tomb expresses the grim realities beneath the era’s facade of chivalry: Above, he is depicted resplendent in full armor; below, as a gaunt cadaver.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 11, 2026

The “age of chivalry is gone,” Edmund Burke lamented after the guillotining of Marie Antoinette of France on Oct.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 8, 2026

Another stumbling block to doing as he pleased was the very idea of chivalry or of civilization which Arthur had first invented and then introduced into his own young mind.

From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White

It was one of those fallacious chivalries of feeling which are the danger of sensitive and imaginative minds.

From Young Lives by Richard Le Gallienne

The choice was not altogether a happy one, for the Duke of Bejar might be said to have an ancestral claim to be regarded as a patron of books of chivalries.

From The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 10 by John Rudd

I have seen, too, generous sacrifices and tender considerations, to which the boasted chivalries of Sydney and Edward were childish ostentation.

From Cannibals all! or, Slaves without masters by George Fitzhugh

You say that two chivalries pitched into you, and you knocked them both over.

From The Orpheus C. Kerr Papers, Series 1 by R. H. (Robert Henry) Newell

He was very good as far as he went; and if you expect the chivalries of grace out of Nature, you "may expect," as old Fuller saith.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 46, August, 1861 by Various