chivalry

Striving for chivalry on those early dinner dates, I’d pay for our meals and a dessert only she would eat.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 16, 2026

He picks me up from Los Angeles International Airport — an act of chivalry that deserves knighthood.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 12, 2026

The Psychology of Women Quarterly study shows just how much the notion of chivalry is actually a myth.

From Salon ● Apr. 8, 2026

The scrupulous observance of parole by released officers in the early months of the Civil War reads like tales of the age of chivalry.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 20, 2026

For the King, or at least this is how Malory interprets him, was the patron saint of chivalry.

From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White

I know one great Spanish scholar who has never forgiven Cervantes for destroying the books of chivalries.

From The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 10 by John Rudd

He was very good as far as he went; and if you expect the chivalries of grace out of Nature, you "may expect," as old Fuller saith.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 46, August, 1861 by Various

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 Thomas Carlyle

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

Finally, the prose versions, more modern still, sharply distinguish the two chivalries, the one earthly, the other mystical.

From Literary and Philosophical Essays: French, German and Italian by Various