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Or the gallant, pragmatic 8-year-old street hawker selling watercress in Victorian London: “All my money I earns I puts in a club and draws it out to buy clothes with.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 2026

It suggested Williams was being given as long as possible to declare herself fit after her knee swelled up during a gallant three-set loss to 20-year-old Joint.

From BBC ● Jul. 4, 2026

James and his teammates gave a gallant effort Saturday night at Crypto.com Arena, but the defending champion proved to be more than the Lakers could handle.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 9, 2026

The statement, from Major General Michael Onoja, a defence headquarters spokesman, said that the attack "resulted in the loss of a few brave and gallant soldiers", without disclosing a toll or who was killed.

From Barron's ● Apr. 9, 2026

When Paganini tried to eat it, Mr. Jeet reached down to rescue the flower and handed it to Laney with a gallant nod.

From "The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street" by Karina Yan Glaser

By Part 3, we are in Renaissance France, where gallants fight with one-handed swords in 1547.

From New York Times ● Aug. 11, 2012

For 36 years the track was a playground for Creole gallants and their blooded plantation ponies, for the stock fairs and horse races of New Orleans' Mechanics' Society.

From Time Magazine Archive

Only the jolliest, most debonair of present-day gallants could fittingly adorn the La Salle-Fisher Laughing Cavalier.

From Time Magazine Archive

The vast majority of oils, watercolors and drawings made by Fragonard, Boucher, Watteau and Nattier to decorate boudoirs and gaming rooms were skillful but skin-deep pictures of pretty ladies, handsome gallants and idyllic landscapes.

From Time Magazine Archive

These men, a picked striking force of gallants, resumed the onslaughts of the previous afternoon.

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