chivalrousness
Example Sentences
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The latter course might have been most deadly of all, had it not been tempered with a certain chivalrousness which abode in Mary Ellen's heart.
From The Girl at the Halfway House A Story of the Plains by Hough, Emerson
It exaggerates its own energy and spirit of enterprise, its sense of humour and its chivalrousness towards women.
From The Twentieth Century American Being a Comparative Study of the Peoples of the Two Great Anglo-Saxon Nations by Robinson, Harry Perry
"She's noan hurt wi' good looks, our Bess," her father remarked with graceful chivalrousness on more than one occasion, "but hoo con heave a'most as much as I con, an' that's summat."
From "Seth" by Burnett, Frances Hodgson
He was surprised, however, that she should have halted before his door, and with tremulous indignation, said,— "I thank you, sir, for your chivalrousness in turning a defenseless woman into ridicule."
From Clarence by Harte, Bret
What I am denying is that Americans have any greater reverence for women, any higher chivalrousness, than Englishmen.
From The Twentieth Century American Being a Comparative Study of the Peoples of the Two Great Anglo-Saxon Nations by Robinson, Harry Perry
