gallant act
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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
The present generation has not gazed at a more gallant act than Cervera at Santiago.
From Time Magazine Archive
At Andrews, Sadat praised Carter for the "brave and gallant act" of calling the summit.
From Time Magazine Archive
But if there were no more in it than the dispute of which was the most gallant act of the two, to suffer, or die, it would not deserve so much consideration.
From Lives of the Most Remarkable Criminals Who have been Condemned and Executed for Murder, the Highway, Housebreaking, Street Robberies, Coining or other offences by Hayward, Arthur L.
Evidently his gallant act, the thing that everybody had admired in Trooper, had taken on a different colour when performed by him.
From In Orchard Glen by MacGregor, Mary Esther Miller
