gallantry

Roberts-Smith won the Victoria Cross -- Australia's highest military honour -- for "conspicuous gallantry" in Afghanistan while on the hunt for a senior Taliban commander.

From Barron's ● Apr. 7, 2026

Courage faces danger but gallantry is the way you face it.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 1, 2026

The Foreign Office has announced an additional honours recognising the work of overseas residents or service abroad, and there are separate lists covering gallantry awards and for service personnel in the military.

From BBC ● Jun. 13, 2025

In France she met and married another exile, Bronislav Sossinsky, who had won the highest medal for gallantry in the White Army that fought against the Bolsheviks in Russia's Civil war.

From Reuters ● Jul. 26, 2023

I want gallantry from her, swash buckling, heroism, single-handed combat.

From "The Handmaid's Tale" by Margaret Atwood

But Bausch expands her premise to embrace a world of ritualised gallantries and perfectly achieved appearance.

From The Guardian ● Jun. 21, 2012

For 75 years ago Khedive Ismail Pasha had defrayed the costs of his irrepressible gallantries by selling a European company the right to construct and operate the canal across the Isthmus of Suez.

From Time Magazine Archive

She was an artist, one of three glowing Peabody girls, and had lived for almost two years on a sugar plantation in Cuba among the gallantries and luxuries of the old Spanish society.

From Time Magazine Archive

Davy was a poor scholar, preferring to do impersonations rather than homework ; he would even listen at the keyhole of the Johnson bedroom and later mimic the schoolmaster's clumsy gallantries.

From Time Magazine Archive

His heroes included D’Artagnan and the Count of Monte Cristo and he affected what he thought were their swashbuckling gallantries.

From "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings" by Maya Angelou