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  • Surely there's one chivalrous knight, one lord of steadfast heart and courage.†   (source)
  • By now Stark was no doubt regretting his chivalrous impulse.†   (source)
  • American chivalry?†   (source)
  • Feeling that nothing more was required of her, Briony went to sit on the Chesterfield and watched from her mother's perspective the chivalrous unease that shifted between Leon and the policemen.†   (source)
  • There lake and plain smile fair and free, 'Mid rocks their guardian chivalry.†   (source)
  • At first Jimmy would rush to their aid: he was tender-hearted, he'd been told, and nothing if not chivalrous.†   (source)
  • Out of chivalry when he saw her standing alone.†   (source)
  • I always knew chivalry wasn't dead," she proclaimed.†   (source)
  • The day of the armored man-at-arms, the knight, the embodiment of chivalry, was over-hammered into history's coffin by a few thousand ragtag peasant archers carrying longbows.†   (source)
  • He chivalrously covered my position as well as his own, so my woolgathering was only interrupted when it was my turn to serve; my team ducked warily out of the way every time I was up.†   (source)
  • He attempted chivalrously not to take in the sweep of her body, his eyes holding hers, but of course, as we know often happens in such circumstances, he was unsure as to whether or not he had succeeded, one's gaze being less than entirely conscious a phenomenon.†   (source)
  • So did Saint Olaf and Charlemagne, to say nothing of Romeo and Juliet, Joan of Arc, Ivanhoe, the Pied Piper of Hamelin, and many mighty princes and majestic kings, chivalrous knights and fair damsels, anonymous stained-glass window makers and ingenious organ builders.†   (source)
  • If he gathered flowers for her or helped her down from her horse, he did it with a casualness that transformed his chivalry into a simple act of friendship.†   (source)
  • =========================== He was warrior and mystic, ogre and saint, the fox and the innocent, chivalrous, ruthless, less than a god, more than a man.†   (source)
  • He may have thought he was being chivalrous by catching me, but he should have let me fall.†   (source)
  • "Oh, no!" he said quickly, smiling at her out of that unfailing impulse of contrition—a sort of chivalry Yet, walking down the path with her, he blurted out, "I'd like to go and have a look at those rocks down there."†   (source)
  • Ever chivalrous, that would be Brendan.†   (source)
  • 'I'm chivalrous,' he said.†   (source)
  • That doesn't seem to leave a man any margin for chivalry, Vera my dearest.†   (source)
  • I have heard how in the times of chivalry men had to joust with sharp lances for their women, but I don't believe they ever had to eat so many of the vicar's wife's biscuits.†   (source)
  • Pippa is lying in the hammock while her knight regales her with some tale of chivalrous deeds done on her behalf.†   (source)
  • I should be very sorry to think that anyone of our family had not enough honour and chivalry to go to the aid of — er — a lady in distress.†   (source)
  • Maybe a really fast, chivalrous soldier out there would beat my estimate.†   (source)
  • Our American chivalry is the worst in all the world.†   (source)
  • Once you get him started on knights and chivalry and whatnot, can't shut him up for days.†   (source)
  • He had silver hair and blue eyes and was chivalrous but disinclined to talk.†   (source)
  • CHAPTER 10 BUILDING BRIDGES In the immensity of these ranges, at the limit of existence where men may visit but cannot dwell, life has a new importance...but Mountains are not chivalrous; one forgets their violence.†   (source)
  • No matter how courtly or chivalrous Astaroth's manners may have been, his grinning white face had always seemed an impenetrable mask.†   (source)
  • "Chivalrous of you," the Mask says.†   (source)
  • So much for chivalry, she thought, annoyed that he hadn't given her the opportunity to assert her independence.†   (source)
  • Very chivalrous.†   (source)
  • A more experienced fighter, even a knight of honor, would have looked beyond his chivalrous code, accepted his good fortune as a blessing, and slain the worm as it slept.†   (source)
  • Chivalry is dead, I tell you.†   (source)
  • All that lovely, plumed, stinking chivalry.†   (source)
  • He pretended it was an issue of chivalry.†   (source)
  • On this night, these two average college basketball teams would honor their sport with the irrepressible intensity of their will to win and the radiant chivalry of their gamesmanship.†   (source)
  • I do not believe that it takes a genius to pierce to the heart of a situation to which Southern chivalry once gave, among other things, the mulatto.†   (source)
  • For if in the 1940s, long before the dawn of our liberation, the ancient chivalry still prevailed and the plastic June Allysons of a boy's dreams were demigoddesses with whom one might at most, to use the sociologists' odious idiom, "pet to climax," I carried self-abnegation to its mad limit and with my beloved Maria did not even try to cop a feel, as they used to say in those days.†   (source)
  • ANNIE: Oh, no. It's—very chivalrous of you, but I'd really prefer to—†   (source)
  • These were not the romantic and reputedly chivalrous highwaymen of Britain's post roads in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.†   (source)
  • It seemed to her that after all there had been between them and the years of independence she had won for herself, he must help her chivalrously, disinterestedly, without explanations or disgraceful conditions.†   (source)
  • Rufo wasn't counting on my being "chivalrous"; he had lived too long.†   (source)
  • BOTARD: [ironic] Oh, Mr. Berenger says that out of chivalry— he's a very chivalrous man even if he doesn't look it.†   (source)
  • Miss Katie thought she called to the road, but she didn't; shame drew down her head, for she could still feel one thing if she could feel little else coming to her from the outside world: lack of chivalry.†   (source)
  • It struck her that it was hopeless to look for chivalry in such a man.   (source)
  • Mercifully, some vestiges of Mike's chivalry still survived; he came to stand beside me.†   (source)
  • And Ser Barristan has been instructing Grazhar and the other boys in the ways of western chivalry.†   (source)
  • Jeb was patient; his guiding hand was almost chivalrous.†   (source)
  • "This was not chivalrously done," said Brienne when they were close enough to see it clearly.†   (source)
  • "It is chivalry that makes a true knight, not a sword," he said.†   (source)
  • He thought: tactics are old Napoleon and a lot of chivalry.†   (source)
  • "That is chivalrous of you," said Lord Tytos.†   (source)
  • Margaery has heard tales of your wisdom, courage, and chivalry, and has come to love you from afar.†   (source)
  • "That was chivalrous of you," his aunt said, "but it's strength that's needed here, not chivalry."†   (source)
  • I am speaking to myself, as I was, all cocksure arrogance and empty chivalry.†   (source)
  • Near all the chivalry of the south had come to Renly's call, it seemed.†   (source)
  • "A chivalrous man would dismount," said Arstan.†   (source)
  • They're upjumped sellswords, with not a thimble of chivalry to be found amongst the four of them.†   (source)
  • All the chivalry of the south rides with me, and that is the least part of my power.†   (source)
  • Is this your notion of chivalry, Ser Boros?†   (source)
  • Chivalrous as a knight, and honest as the day is long.†   (source)
  • "That was chivalrous of you," his aunt said, "but it's strength that's needed here, not chivalry."†   (source)
  • Ask Edmure how chivalrous I am, thought Jaime.†   (source)
  • DUDARD: What's chivalrous about saying you've seen a rhinoceros ?†   (source)
  • Everybody is chivalrous to Miss Daisy, it's very understandable.†   (source)
  • A small voice inside Harry's head answered him: Their daring nerve and chivalry set Gryffindor apart.†   (source)
  • Where "chivalry" entered into this, he thought ruefully, he was not entirely sure, unless it counted as chivalrous that he was not calling for Hermione to do it in his stead.†   (source)
  • More chivalry?†   (source)
  • Where "chivalry" entered into this, he thought ruefully, he was not entirely sure, unless it counted as chivalrous that he was not calling for Hermione to do it in his stead.†   (source)
  • The Rakshana must change, as well—become less the chivalrous handshake of brotherhood and more the profitable fist of industry.†   (source)
  • In the old days their society had been all about impressive architecture, honor, and codes of chivalry.†   (source)
  • Now they call themselves the Wild Hares and gallop about the country with rabbitskins tied to the ends of their lances, singing songs of chivalry.†   (source)
  • Also I haven't yet learned that chivalry in men is idiocy in women: men can get out of a rescue a lot more easily, once they get into it.†   (source)
  • Such a chivalrous Hopfrog.†   (source)
  • So much for chivalry.†   (source)
  • He was not one given to seeing life as a climb to the top of a ladder or mountain, but more as a journey or adventure, even a "kind of romance, which a little embellished with fiction or exaggeration or only poetical ornament, would equal anything in the days of chivalry or knight errantry," as once he confided to Abigail.†   (source)
  • 'Chivalry's dead.†   (source)
  • He spent it in the training hall on the pyramid's third level, working with his boys, teaching them the art of sword and shield, horse and lance ...and chivalry, the code that made a knight more than any pit fighter.†   (source)
  • That you are a true and chivalrous Westerosi knight crossing half the world to come to the aid of this ...well, she is no maiden, though she may still be fair.†   (source)
  • The Smiling Knight was a madman, cruelty and chivalry all jumbled up together, but he did not know the meaning of fear.†   (source)
  • Most of the lords who rode with Lord Renly to Storm's End have gone over banner-and-blade to Stannis, with all their chivalry.†   (source)
  • Alla had a lovely voice, and when coaxed would play the woodharp and sing songs of chivalry and lost loves.†   (source)
  • Arya made faces across the table when no one was looking; Sansa listened raptly while the king's high harper sang songs of chivalry, and Rickon kept asking why Jon wasn't with them.†   (source)
  • Soft-spoken sweet-smelling Sansa, who loved silks, songs, chivalry and tall gallant knights with handsome faces.†   (source)
  • Ser Osmund Kettleblack, a vision of chivalry in immaculate scale armor and white wool cloak, swore that King Joffrey had long known that his uncle Tyrion meant to murder him.†   (source)
  • Tommen had always been frightened of Sandor Clegane's harsh voice and burned face, and Clegane's scorn would have been the perfect antidote to Loras Tyrell's simpering chivalry.†   (source)
  • " 'Tis scarcely chivalrous to threaten your host over his own cheese and olives," the Lord of the Dreadfort scolded.†   (source)
  • Lady Catelyn had said that Sansa was a gentle soul who loved lemon cakes, silken gowns, and songs of chivalry, yet the girl had seen her father's head lopped off and been forced to marry one of his killers afterward.†   (source)
  • "It is chivalrous of you to protect her," Cersei broke in, "but you are too good a knight to go on living with your crime.†   (source)
  • Is he chivalrous as befits a king?†   (source)
  • Robert was a ...a good knight ...chivalrous, brave ...he spared my life, and the lives of many others ...Prince Viserys was only a boy, it would have been years before he was fit to rule, and ...forgive me, my queen, but you asked for truth ...even as a child, your brother Viserys oft seemed to be his father's son, in ways that Rhaegar never did.†   (source)
  • In all fairness, he behaved perfectly, chivalrously, not like all those small fry-little Cossack captains, policemen, and what not.†   (source)
  • I lament the passing of that form of chivalry which was the way that civilized men had agreed to treat each other during times of peace.†   (source)
  • BOTARD: [ironic] Oh, Mr. Berenger says that out of chivalry— he's a very chivalrous man even if he doesn't look it.†   (source)
  • But Clennam had made a promise he held sacred, among the trees that summer night, and, in the chivalry of his heart, regarded it as binding him to many implied obligations.†   (source)
  • 'To think better of it,' returned the gallant Blandois, 'would be to slight a lady; to slight a lady would be to be deficient in chivalry towards the sex; and chivalry towards the sex is a part of my character!'†   (source)
  • From the days of their honeymoon, Minnie Gowan felt sensible of being usually regarded as the wife of a man who had made a descent in marrying her, but whose chivalrous love for her had cancelled that inequality.†   (source)
  • His chivalrous feeling towards all that belonged to her made him so very respectable, in spite of his small stature and his rather weak legs, and his very weak hair, and his poetical temperament, that a Goliath might have sat in his place demanding less consideration at Arthur's hands.†   (source)
  • Those are the flowers of Spanish chivalry.†   (source)
  • He became a member of this legion of chivalry—young Galahad-Eugene—a spearhead of righteousness.†   (source)
  • He had nothing in his nature of reticence or of chivalry toward women.†   (source)
  • That's just his form of salute or chivalry.†   (source)
  • I'll wake you up," he added, with gentle chivalry.†   (source)
  • I don't want to shelter behind Mr. Clarke's chivalry.†   (source)
  • Lancelot dropped unconsciously into the language of chivalry also.†   (source)
  • This was Southern chivalry and gallantry for you!†   (source)
  • Yes, my dear, it is my much advertised chivalry that makes me protect you.†   (source)
  • The serf of chivalry was not a slave for whom there was no hope.†   (source)
  • If you had any chivalry you'd—you'd be nice like— Well, look at Ashley Wilkes.†   (source)
  • Yes, and even then it is only a cavalry charge you are thinking of, not a chivalry one.†   (source)
  • He dropped the language of chivalry, falling into the simple tongue.†   (source)
  • For the King, or at least this is how Malory interprets him, was the patron saint of chivalry.†   (source)
  • The chivalry of the Old Ones fought their way from the ruined encampment, hand to hand.†   (source)
  • We must breed up a new generation of chivalry for the future.†   (source)
  • Here is a short, example of the problems of chivalry, which he thought about in his early times.†   (source)
  • He wanted the romance and the chivalry and the honour.†   (source)
  • But there were no longer any organized traces of the chivalry of the Gael.†   (source)
  • Lancelot and Guenever looked over the sundown of chivalry, from the tower window.†   (source)
  • What an amazing time the age of chivalry was!†   (source)
  • He is a very chivalrous man.†   (source)
  • His shoes were tapered, as elegant as chivalry in the stirrups or the end of a lizard entering a crevice.†   (source)
  • It is to be tender to women, chivalrous to servants ...."—what else I cannot remember; though I used to know it by heart.†   (source)
  • It was a surprising association of men quite eminent in their professions who met once a month for an evening of ceremonious buffoonery; each had his sobriquet—Bridey was called "Brother Grandee"—and a specially designed jewel worn like an order of chivalry, symbolizing it; they had club buttons for their waistcoats and an elaborate ritual for the introduction of guests; after dinner a paper was read and facetious speeches were made.†   (source)
  • That was Southern chivalry.†   (source)
  • them at least to approach the vicinity of salvation, to at least give Ellen one chance to struggle with him for those children's souls on a battleground where she could be supported not only by Heaven but by her own family and people of her own kind; yes, even for the moment submitting himself to redemption, or lacking that, at least chivalrous for the instant even though still unregenerate.†   (source)
  • Indeed, she had the whole of the other sex under her protection; for reasons she could not explain, for their chivalry and valour, for the fact that they negotiated treaties, ruled India, controlled finance; finally for an attitude towards herself which no woman could fail to feel or to find agreeable, something trustful, childlike, reverential; which an old woman could take from a young man without loss of dignity, and woe betide the girl—pray Heaven it was none of her daughters!†   (source)
  • 14 THE EVIDENCE OF THE WEAPON With more vigour than chivalry, A Bouc deposited the fainting lady with her head on the table.†   (source)
  • Marriage was not an affair of personal affection, but of family avarice, particularly in the "chivalrous" upper classes...Betrothal often took place while one or both of the parties was in the cradle, and marriage when they were scarcely out of the nurses' charge.'†   (source)
  • I lost my brooch—my grandmother's brooch," said Minta with a sound of lamentation in her voice, and a suffusion in her large brown eyes, looking down, looking up, as she sat by Mr. Ramsay, which roused his chivalry so that he bantered her.†   (source)
  • Mr. Samgrass's deft editorship had assembled and arranged a curiously homogeneous little body of writing—poetry, letters, scraps of a journal, an unpublished essay or two, which all exhaled the same high-spirited, serious, chivalrous, other-worldly air and the letters from their contemporaries, written after their deaths, all in varying degrees of articulateness, told the same tale of men who were, in all the full flood of academic and athletic success, of popularity and the promise of great rewards ahead, seen somehow as set apart from their fellows, garlanded victims, devoted to the sacrifice.†   (source)
  • O chivalry, O Abbot Suger!†   (source)
  • Yes-yes ....And very chivalrous.†   (source)
  • after she had spoken so severely about Charles Tansley, that her daughters, Prue, Nancy, Rose—could sport with infidel ideas which they had brewed for themselves of a life different from hers; in Paris, perhaps; a wilder life; not always taking care of some man or other; for there was in all their minds a mute questioning of deference and chivalry, of the Bank of England and the Indian Empire, of ringed fingers and lace, though to them all there was something in this of the essence of beauty, which called out the manliness in their girlish hearts, and made them, as they sat at table beneath their mother's eyes, honour her strange severity, her extreme courtesy, like a queen's raising fro†   (source)
  • I've never started a girl off," he babbled, aware vaguely that he was voicing an approved doctrine of chivalry.†   (source)
  • They were only the sons of the little rich men, the lords of the village and county, but as he saw them go so surely, with such laughing unconstraint, in well-cut clothes, well-groomed, well-brushed, among the crowd of humbler students, who stiffened awkwardly with peasant hostility and constraint,—they were the flower of chivalry, the sons of the mansion-house.†   (source)
  • And this desire of his was unquestionably enhanced by all he had read and visioned, by the romantic halo that his school history cast over the section, by the whole fantastic distortion of that period where people were said to live in "mansions," and slavery was a benevolent institution, conducted to a constant banjo-strumming, the strewn largesses of the colonel and the shuffle-dance of his happy dependents, where all women were pure, gentle, and beautiful, all men chivalrous and brave, and the Rebel horde a company of swagger, death-mocking cavaliers.†   (source)
  • Southern chivalry protected her.†   (source)
  • "About our conversation on the subject of chivalry," began the King in an airy tone.... I don't recollect such a conversation.†   (source)
  • His branch of learning was chivalry.†   (source)
  • My idea is that if we can win this battle in front of us, and get a firm hold of the country, then I will institute a sort of order of chivalry.†   (source)
  • Arthur was the heart's king of a chivalry which had reached its flower perhaps two hundred years before our antiquarian author began to work.†   (source)
  • It was well for him, with his chivalry and mysticism and all the compensations of the male world, to make the grand renunciation.†   (source)
  • The heavy, straw-stuffed helms of chivalry had such small holes to breathe through that they felt like suffocating.†   (source)
  • The first sign of the fester was when our chivalry turned into Games-Mania—all that nonsense about who had the best tilting average and so forth.†   (source)
  • His Table, his idea of Chivalry, his Holy Grail, his devotion to Justice: these had been progressive steps in the effort for which he had been bred.†   (source)
  • I want to have an Order of Chivalry, like the Order of the Garter, which goes about fighting against Might.†   (source)
  • You don't remember what chivalry used to be before your Arthur started the Table, so you don't know what a genuis you have married.†   (source)
  • He was speaking formally in the High Language of Chivalry—for in those days there were two kinds of speech like High and Low Dutch or Norman French and Saxon English.†   (source)
  • What is all this chivalry, anyway?†   (source)
  • Another stumbling block to doing as he pleased was the very idea of chivalry or of civilization which Arthur had first invented and then introduced into his own young mind.†   (source)
  • Or rather, they were whispering in a strange mixture of Gaelic and of the Old Language of chivalry—which had been taught to them because they would need it when they were grown.†   (source)
  • When he had knighted Melias, he quoth these verra words: 'Now, fair sir,' says he, 'sith ye be come of kings and queens, now look that knighthood be well set in you, for ye ought to be a mirror unto all chivalry!'†   (source)
  • And in her tone of voice he had read a picture of twenty years' desertion, realizing for the first time that during all that period she had been following his career of chivalry like a schoolchild doting on the batsman Hobbs.†   (source)
  • Behind you, there might be a savage tournament or faction fight going on, with all the heralds crying out, "Laissez les aller" to ranks of chivalry who were about to charge—a cry which was exactly equivalent to the shout, "They're off!" which is still to be heard at the Grand National today.†   (source)
  • "It is a trouble," he said, drawing the old language of knighthood round him like a cloak, "that will aye destroy the flower of chivalry in all the world: a mischief to our noble fellowship: and all by cause of two unhappy knights!"†   (source)
  • That is chivalry nowadays.†   (source)
  • An effective trick, but a dangerous one—the whole of chivalry argued about it for a long time, some saying that it was unsporting, some that it was fair but too risky, and some that it was a good idea.†   (source)
  • We, who have learned to base our interpretation of love on the conventional boy-and-girl romance of Romeo and Juliet, would be amazed if we could step back into the Middle Ages—when the poet of chivalry could write about Man that he had "en del un dieu, par terre une deesse."†   (source)
  • Where once, before King Arthur had made his chivalry, the Knight of the Tower Landry had been compelled to warn his daughter against entering her own dining hall in the evening unaccompanied—for fear of what might happen in the dark corners—now there was music and light.†   (source)
  • In the afternoons the programme was: Mondays and Fridays, tilting and horsemanship; Tuesdays, hawking; Wednesdays, fencing; Thursdays, archery; Saturdays, the theory of chivalry, with the proper measures to be blown on all occasions, terminology of the chase and hunting etiquette.†   (source)
  • It is about chivalry.†   (source)
  • He did not see a hero of romance, but a plain man who had done his best—not a leader of chivalry, but the pupil who had tried to be faithful to his curious master, the magician, by thinking all the time—not Arthur of England, but a lonely old gentleman who had worn his crown for half a lifetime in the teeth of fate.†   (source)
  • He had to perfect himself for Arthur as somebody who was good at games, and he had to think about the theories of chivalry even when he was in bed at night He had to teacji himself to possess a sound opinion on hundreds of disputed points —on the proper length of weapons, or the cut of a mantling, or the articulation of a pauldron, or whether cedarwood was better man ash for spears, as Chaucer seems to have believed.†   (source)
  • You will have to undress him and put him into a bath hung with rich hangings, and then two experienced knights will turn up—probably Sir Ector will get hold of old Grummore and King Pellinore—and they win both sit on the edge of the bath and give him a long lecture about the ideals of chivalry such as they are.†   (source)
  • For irt those days love was ruled by a different convention to ours...In those days it was chivalrous, adult, long, religious, almost platonic.†   (source)
  • There had been the first feeling, a companionship of youth under which Arthur had launched his grand crusade—the second, of chivalrous rivalry growing staler every year in the greatest court of Europe, until it had nearly turned to feud and empty competition.†   (source)
  • But it was chivalrous?†   (source)
  • It struck her that it was hopeless to look for chivalry in such a man.†   (source)
  • She don't care a damn for chivalry, do you, Sally?'†   (source)
  • "You men shouldn't be so chivalrous," said Margaret thoughtfully.†   (source)
  • You can gamble Bland didn't do thet from notions of chivalry.†   (source)
  • He took the more chivalrous view, however, and preserved her secret.†   (source)
  • It was a kind of mad joy in Venters's chivalry.†   (source)
  • She was pretty and soft, and had been chivalrously treated all her days.†   (source)
  • 'You see how it is,' he said to me, 'where there is no chivalry, there is no amour-propre.'†   (source)
  • "I am assuredly noble-minded, and chivalrous to a degree!" said Keller, much softened.†   (source)
  • Tavy, the chivalrous, the faithful, the tenderhearted and true!†   (source)
  • Here I stand, and dare the chivalry of England to come against me—not by individuals, but in mass!†   (source)
  • But he lacked chivalry; his thoughts, like his behaviour, would not be modified by awe.†   (source)
  • "More so than your chivalry, I fear," she retorted sarcastically.†   (source)
  • A difference having to do with the heat of one's blood, one's sense of chivalry.†   (source)
  • But the present treatment by her husband and brother was everything save chivalrous.†   (source)
  • The rules of chivalry are of secondary importance.†   (source)
  • Even the dullest of the chivalry perceived that this was a plain case of "put up, or shut up."†   (source)
  • And why should I even think of forcing my chivalrous services upon your traveling companion?†   (source)
  • That helped—it was chivalrous and humane of Herr Settembrini.†   (source)
  • he was not sensitive on the point of honor, not a chivalrous character.†   (source)
  • He was deeply read in books of chivalry and romance.†   (source)
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