chivalrousness
Example Sentences
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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 Harry Perry Robinson
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 Herbert Strang
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 Emerson Hough
His love, his forbearance, his chivalrousness had been in vain.
From The Light of Scarthey by Egerton Castle
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 Booth Tarkington
