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

I tell you this, your Highness, that in your noble chivalrousness you may not think it necessary to delude yourself and me by the expression of such feelings.

From A Twofold Life by Hillern, Wilhelmine von

To a rare simplicity of manner he added a chivalrousness of spirit that was almost an inspiration to those who were brought into contact with him.

From Memoirs of Sir Wemyss Reid 1842-1885 by Reid, Stuart J. (Stuart Johnson)

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'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