gallantry
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Sarah welcomes the gesture and I’ve noticed others admiring my gallantry.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 9, 2026
Roberts-Smith won the Victoria Cross -- Australia's highest military honour -- for "conspicuous gallantry" in Afghanistan while on the hunt for a senior Taliban commander.
From Barron's ● Apr. 7, 2026
Sir Frank was a highly-decorated officer who won the Military Cross twice for his service in Kenya and Malaya and was awarded a CBE for gallantry during his time in Northern Ireland.
From BBC ● Jan. 4, 2024
Corporal Sidney Bates posthumously received Britain's Victoria Cross for "supreme gallantry" after repeatedly charging a critical German position with a light machine gun before dying of his wounds.
From Reuters ● Nov. 12, 2023
As she staggered with the bus’s movement my lack of gallantry tormented me.
From "Black Like Me" by John Howard Griffin
But Bausch expands her premise to embrace a world of ritualised gallantries and perfectly achieved appearance.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 21, 2012
For 75 years ago Khedive Ismail Pasha had defrayed the costs of his irrepressible gallantries by selling a European company the right to construct and operate the canal across the Isthmus of Suez.
From Time Magazine Archive
In A Free Soul he was the gangster whose rude but persuasive gallantries caused Norma Shearer to violate the Producer's Code.*
From Time Magazine Archive
Agent Donat arrives by parachute, spends a few minutes disguised as a Rumanian peasant, then transforms himself into Tartu, a Rumanian Iron Guardist, reeking with pomade, corny gallantries and devotion to the New Order.
From Time Magazine Archive
His heroes included D’Artagnan and the Count of Monte Cristo and he affected what he thought were their swashbuckling gallantries.
From "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings" by Maya Angelou
Vocabulary lists containing gallantry
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A Streetcar Named Desire
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