chivalry
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On Feb. 24, 1525, the age of chivalry came to a symbolic end amid smoke and gunfire.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 19, 2026
He picks me up from Los Angeles International Airport — an act of chivalry that deserves knighthood.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 12, 2026
Whether we are meant to believe or dismiss this apologia for the chivalry of the Old South is debatable.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 23, 2026
He can no longer sign off as the Duke of York, or put "KG", a Knight of the Garter, after his name, with a flourish of medieval chivalry.
From BBC ● Oct. 17, 2025
"Most of the lords who rode with Lord Renly to Storm's End have gone over banner-and-blade to Stannis, with all their chivalry."
From "A Clash of Kings" by George R.R. Martin
Such chivalries, therefore, are now impossible; for myself I say, "Well, let them cease; thank God they once were, the Memory of that can never cease with us!"
From The Correspondence of Thomas Carlyle and Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1834-1872, Vol II. by Carlyle, Thomas
You say that two chivalries pitched into you, and you knocked them both over.
From The Orpheus C. Kerr Papers, Series 1 by Newell, R. H. (Robert Henry)
Where is my good? the little real hoard, The secret tears, the sudden chivalries; The tragic love, the futile triumph—where?
From The Wild Knight and Other Poems by Chesterton, G. K. (Gilbert Keith)
Almost immediately afterward, it was decided that Young England ought to be represented in Parliament, where its Utopian chivalries, it was believed, needed only to be heard to prevail.
From Gossip in a Library by Gosse, Edmund
It was one of those fallacious chivalries of feeling which are the danger of sensitive and imaginative minds.
From Young Lives by Le Gallienne, Richard
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Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
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