chivalrousness

Example Sentences

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The latter course might have been most deadly of all, had it not been tempered with a certain chivalrousness which abode in Mary Ellen's heart.

From The Girl at the Halfway House A Story of the Plains by Hough, Emerson

To a rare simplicity of manner he added a chivalrousness of spirit that was almost an inspiration to those who were brought into contact with him.

From Memoirs of Sir Wemyss Reid 1842-1885 by Reid, Stuart J. (Stuart Johnson)

He was surprised, however, that she should have halted before his door, and with tremulous indignation, said,— "I thank you, sir, for your chivalrousness in turning a defenseless woman into ridicule."

From Clarence by Harte, Bret

She was more than content with Cora's abandonment of him, though, as chivalrousness was not demanded of her, she would have preferred that he should have been the jilt.

From The Flirt by Tarkington, Booth

No share in, or credit for, the result is to be assigned to any peculiar forethought, deference, or chivalrousness on the part of the men, their fellows in the fight.

From The Twentieth Century American Being a Comparative Study of the Peoples of the Two Great Anglo-Saxon Nations by Robinson, Harry Perry