chivalry
Example Sentences
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The scrupulous observance of parole by released officers in the early months of the Civil War reads like tales of the age of chivalry.
The earl of Arundel’s tomb expresses the grim realities beneath the era’s facade of chivalry: Above, he is depicted resplendent in full armor; below, as a gaunt cadaver.
The “age of chivalry is gone,” Edmund Burke lamented after the guillotining of Marie Antoinette of France on Oct.
Recovering Mira isn’t a mission driven by chivalry or romance, but out of a need to restore the family Spear and Fang are building.
From Salon
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 Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
