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
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
And felt himself nourished by the plasma of letters and syllables that had come to denote a commitment to gallantry among the men with whom he had chosen to spend his life.
From "The Great Santini" by Pat Conroy
But Bausch expands her premise to embrace a world of ritualised gallantries and perfectly achieved appearance.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 21, 2012
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
She was an artist, one of three glowing Peabody girls, and had lived for almost two years on a sugar plantation in Cuba among the gallantries and luxuries of the old Spanish society.
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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