chivalrousness
Example Sentences
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No share in, or credit for, the result is to be assigned to any peculiar forethought, deference, or chivalrousness on the part of the men, their fellows in the fight.
From The Twentieth Century American Being a Comparative Study of the Peoples of the Two Great Anglo-Saxon Nations by Robinson, Harry Perry
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
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
The Turks helped him to his feet, with a care that showed a certain chivalrousness, and supported between them he limped after his machine.
From Carry On! A Story of the Fight for Bagdad by Strang, Herbert
