High station in life is earned by the gallantry with which appalling experiences are survived with grace.    From LearnThat.org.  [Tennessee Williams (1914-1983).]

Their tradition of gallantry is typical of the Canadian Forces with their battle honours, with their thousands of dead in two world wars, and their countless awards for bravery.    From Wordnik.com.  [Loyal Societies Dinner] Reference

In the interests of a little gallantry, that is to say.    From Wordnik.com.  [tea] Reference

Yet there are viragoes who have had the indecency to call gallantry an "insult to woman.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Primitive Love and Love-Stories] Reference

It was what you gentlemen call gallantry came into my home, and drove my husband on to the cruel sword that killed him.    From Wordnik.com.  [The History of Henry Esmond, Esq. A Colonel in the Service of Her Majesty Queen Anne] Reference

It had a kind of gallantry -- the cool courtesy of a well-born rake.    From Wordnik.com.  [THE SKINNY: 'Swell, Art 1950-2010' At Friedrich Petzel Gallery] Reference

It's that old condescending "gallantry," right out of the John Wayne era.    From Wordnik.com.  ["If the theory's right..."] Reference

The thing about my picks is that none of them execpt possibly Grande Illusion speaks to the "gallantry" of war.    From Wordnik.com.  [Movies at war] Reference

Your gallantry is really unanswerable.    From Wordnik.com.  [Volume III, Chapter VII of _Emma_ by Jane Austen] Reference

But Elizabeth, in the midst of "gallantry," shook her head.    From Wordnik.com.  ['Lizbeth of the Dale] Reference

Your gallantry has been a matter of pride to our motherland, "he said.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ministry of Defence - Sri Lanka (MOD)] Reference

Whence we see how foolish it is to infer from such instances of "gallantry" and.    From Wordnik.com.  [Primitive Love and Love-Stories] Reference

“What men call gallantry and gods adultery, Is much more common where the climate’s sultry.” ‘.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Guilty Thing Surprised]

The Grand Duke made a speech about our "gallantry," etc., etc., and everyone raised glasses and bowed to one.    From Wordnik.com.  [My War Experiences in Two Continents] Reference

His courage was known, and his character for bravery and another kind of gallantry probably exaggerated by his bad reputation.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Newcomes] Reference

Was the sentiment they entertained something warmer than the superficial gallantry which is almost a duty of men towards women?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Parisians in the Country] Reference

Also, he became an inventor in gallantry.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chapter 2] Reference

"gallantry" to themselves, they were certainly rather hard pressed to maintain or rather regain their gravity.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Tithe-Proctor The Works of William Carleton, Volume Two] Reference

But I place all this on the ground of gallantry and humanity.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lessons in Life A Series of Familiar Essays] Reference

"And here," said the Vicomtesse de Nointel, "is a tax on gallantry.".    From Wordnik.com.  [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference

Such displays of gallantry were far rarer before 1969, when California Gov.    From Wordnik.com.  [HAPPY DIVORCE] Reference

So the world judges it more severely than mere gallantry or looseness of manners.    From Wordnik.com.  [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference

Gary Arnold, The Washington TimesOh well, critics were never known for gallantry.    From Wordnik.com.  [Please Stop Reading My Lips] Reference

While he talked to her with affected gallantry, she looked at the mahogany bookcase.    From Wordnik.com.  [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference

He had the gallantry to announce to Madame Martin, first, the good news he was bringing.    From Wordnik.com.  [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference

"You have only to name the day, Baroness," said old Vogotzine, inspired to a little gallantry.    From Wordnik.com.  [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference

I did likewise, still so startled by the clerk's actions that I didn't respond to his gallantry.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mind Your Tongue, Young Man] Reference

The battle was bitterly contested, and Lyon showed himself a veritable hero in personal courage and gallantry.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Life of Abraham Lincoln] Reference

In those conflicts, Territorial units won disproportionate numbers of Victoria Crosses and other gallantry medals.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Right Way to Cut Defense Spending] Reference

The Medal of Honor is awarded for acts of gallantry at the risk of one's life that go above and beyond the call of duty.    From Wordnik.com.  [First Living US Medal of Honor Recipient in a Generation Speaks About Award] Reference

Suppress, by all means, in this partnership, gravity and affectation, yet add a sprinkling of gallantry and good-fellowship.    From Wordnik.com.  [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference

And as he was thinking of defending himself and also avenging himself, he made velvet eyes at her and talked with tender gallantry.    From Wordnik.com.  [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference

The Alamo How do you take a stirring tale of gallantry in the face of death and turn it into a nap-inducing Saturday-afternoon special?.    From Wordnik.com.  [TEN WORST MOVIES OF 2004] Reference

Audiences expecting a hatchet job on the heavily mascara'd evangelical diva Tammy Faye Bakker came away seduced by her garish gallantry.    From Wordnik.com.  [Any Given Sundance] Reference