chivalry

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

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 12, 2026

Six hundred years ago, on a muddy field near Agincourt in northern France, King Henry V’s outnumbered, half-starved English army faced the flower of French chivalry.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 19, 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 Psychology of Women Quarterly study shows just how much the notion of chivalry is actually a myth.

From Salon ● Apr. 8, 2026

If it was so easy to lead one’s country in various directions, as if she was a pig on a string, why had he failed to lead her into chivalry, into justice and into peace?

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

Almost immediately afterward, it was decided that Young England ought to be represented in Parliament, where its Utopian chivalries, it was believed, needed only to be heard to prevail.

From Gossip in a Library by Edmund Gosse

Is it possible that there are knights-errant now in the world, and that there are histories printed of real chivalries?

From The History of Don Quixote de la Mancha by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

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

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

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