gallantry
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But Lubinets -- who was seen in videos doffing his trademark black cap around Lantratova in an act of gallantry -- said he had consciously opted for a different approach.
From Barron's ● Nov. 3, 2026
Place this alongside Horace in one of his “Epistles”: “The advancing years rob us of every thing: they have taken away my mirth, my gallantry, my revelings, and play.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 9, 2026
The George Medal is Britain's second-highest civilian bravery award after the George Cross, and is given for "conspicuous gallantry not in the presence of the enemy".
From BBC ● Oct. 6, 2025
In France she met and married another exile, Bronislav Sossinsky, who had won the highest medal for gallantry in the White Army that fought against the Bolsheviks in Russia's Civil war.
From Reuters ● Jul. 26, 2023
One German soldier called the day’s battle “an amazing spectacle of unexampled gallantry, courage and bull-dog determination on both sides.”
From "The War to End All Wars: World War I" by Russell Freedman
But Bausch expands her premise to embrace a world of ritualised gallantries and perfectly achieved appearance.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 21, 2012
Cyrano de Bergerac's verses were bright, rousing, full of Gascon gallantries.
From Time Magazine Archive
Residual gallantries survive all over the society, but it takes something of an individualist to practice them.
From Time Magazine Archive
Davy was a poor scholar, preferring to do impersonations rather than homework ; he would even listen at the keyhole of the Johnson bedroom and later mimic the schoolmaster's clumsy gallantries.
From Time Magazine Archive
Eyes fixed straight ahead, she pretended to ignore the gallantries, but a couple of times her lips curled into a smile.
From "When I Was Puerto Rican" by Esmeralda Santiago
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