chivalry

He picks me up from Los Angeles International Airport — an act of chivalry that deserves knighthood.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 12, 2026

The “age of chivalry is gone,” Edmund Burke lamented after the guillotining of Marie Antoinette of France on Oct.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 8, 2026

He insisted that he was an independent artist, proving the point by providing decadent, images for an edition of Thomas Malory’s paean to heroic chivalry, “Le Morte d’Arthur.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 21, 2025

He also gave up membership of the Order of the Garter, the oldest and most senior order of chivalry in Britain, although Buckingham Palace remains under pressure to take stronger action against him.

From BBC ● Oct. 21, 2025

Another stumbling block to doing as he pleased was the very idea of chivalry or of civilization which Arthur had first invented and then introduced into his own young mind.

From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White

Where is my good? the little real hoard,   The secret tears, the sudden chivalries; The tragic love, the futile triumph—where?

From The Wild Knight and Other Poems by Chesterton, G. K. (Gilbert Keith)

I know one great Spanish scholar who has never forgiven Cervantes for destroying the books of chivalries.

From The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 10 by Rudd, John

Such chivalries, therefore, are now impossible; for myself I say, "Well, let them cease; thank God they once were, the Memory of that can never cease with us!"

From The Correspondence of Thomas Carlyle and Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1834-1872, Vol II. by Carlyle, Thomas

It was one of those fallacious chivalries of feeling which are the danger of sensitive and imaginative minds.

From Young Lives by Le Gallienne, Richard

I have seen, too, generous sacrifices and tender considerations, to which the boasted chivalries of Sydney and Edward were childish ostentation.

From Cannibals all! or, Slaves without masters by Fitzhugh, George