gallant act
Example Sentences
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In an extraordinary letter of thanks, the officer's father wrote to Robert Malin to commend his "gallant act" and invite him to visit them.
From BBC • Nov. 11, 2018
At Andrews, Sadat praised Carter for the "brave and gallant act" of calling the summit.
From Time Magazine Archive
The present generation has not gazed at a more gallant act than Cervera at Santiago.
From Time Magazine Archive
Then I witnessed a gallant act, such as I have not seen surpassed during forty years of active service that I have gone through since that time.
From Sketches From My Life By The Late Admiral Hobart Pasha by Hobart-Hampden, Augustus Charles
It was a gallant act, and people said at the inquest that it saved the ladies and the servants, but it was at the sacrifice of his own life.
From The New Mistress A Tale by Fenn, George Manville
