chivalry
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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
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
He also gave up membership of the Order of the Garter, the oldest and most senior order of chivalry in Britain, although Buckingham Palace remains under pressure to take stronger action against him.
From BBC ● Oct. 21, 2025
“I suppose chivalry isn’t dead,” he finally says.
From "Warcross" by Marie Lu
Taking the object of Don Quixote to be, what Cervantes declared it—"the causing of the false and silly books of chivalries to be abhorred by mankind"—no book was ever so successful.
From The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 10 by John Rudd
He was an aristocrat born, as we have seen, and felt in himself a kinship for the courtesies, chivalries, and generosities of aristocratic life.
From The Man Shakespeare by Frank Harris
High office brought to him a marked care for those little chivalries which are part of Parliamentary warfare.
From Lloyd George The Man and His Story by Frank Dilnot
Frantic with perplexity, muddled with fear, torn by conflicting chivalries, the Woodland Girl stared back and forth from Adele Reitzen's agonized plea to the grim, inscrutable gleam in Brian Baird's eyes.
From The Sick-a-Bed Lady And Also Hickory Dock, The Very Tired Girl, The Happy-Day, Something That Happened in October, The Amateur Lover, Heart of The City, The Pink Sash, Woman's Only Business by Eleanor Hallowell Abbott
Man has his courtesies of war, and his chivalries of war; he does not strike the unarmed man; he spares the woman and the child.
From Sanitary and Social Lectures, etc by Charles Kingsley
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Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
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The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
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The Magician's Nephew
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