chivalrousness
Example Sentences
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His love, his forbearance, his chivalrousness had been in vain.
From The Light of Scarthey by Castle, Egerton
"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
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
She was more than content with Cora's abandonment of him, though, as chivalrousness was not demanded of her, she would have preferred that he should have been the jilt.
From The Flirt by Tarkington, Booth
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
