Adjective : knightly deeds. ,knightly duties. From Dictionary.com.
I recognise in him a magnanimity, a certain knightliness which is very rare. From Wordnik.com. [Gossamer 1915] Reference
It was a kind of "knightliness," if there is such a word, and when I thought about it I realized it was the very same look you had worn when you burst through the hedge after Chuck Woodcock, and again when you came back and threw that rose on my desk. From Wordnik.com. [The Search] Reference
But many others, so lost to honour and knightliness were they, performed not their promises, and continued to fight each with the other. From Wordnik.com. [King Arthur's Knights The Tales Re-told for Boys & Girls] Reference
When York was given "his receipt for the prisoners," an incident happened that shows the true knightliness of character of this untrained mountaineer. From Wordnik.com. [Sergeant York And His People] Reference
"The Settlers of Karossa Creek" will stir the blood of every lad and stimulate the impulses to patience, endurance, brave daring, and true knightliness. From Wordnik.com. [Adventures in Many Lands] Reference
He has the stuff in him by nature, for none can deny Clan Diarmaid courage and knightliness; but for four generations court, closet, and college have been taking the heart out of our chiefs. From Wordnik.com. [John Splendid The Tale of a Poor Gentleman, and the Little Wars of Lorn] Reference
The types of the age were knightliness and saintliness. From Wordnik.com. [Folkways A Study of the Sociological Importance of Usages, Manners, Customs, Mores, and Morals] Reference
Old Steadfast, there was no denying, had that knightliness. From Wordnik.com. [Foes] Reference
Germany, not a few whose knightliness compares with that of any gentleman in the world. From Wordnik.com. [Germany and the Germans From an American Point of View] Reference
Nataly had once admired him for his knightliness toward the weakest women and the women underfoot. From Wordnik.com. [One of Our Conquerors — Complete] Reference
Matty is honorably engaged to a man who is a Bayard for knightliness, and that poor Beatrice is jilted. From Wordnik.com. [The Honorable Miss A Story of an Old-Fashioned Town] Reference
"Truly, I will let none meddle in this encounter, but will fight it with warlike skill and knightliness". From Wordnik.com. [Theodoric the Goth Barbarian Champion of Civilisation] Reference
I sometimes think that it is Ascher's chivalry, his fine knightliness, which has killed his sense of humour. From Wordnik.com. [Gossamer 1915] Reference
"We have to live," said Mike, "since nature has so willed it, but I fully realize the knightliness of your revolt against the principle of life.". From Wordnik.com. [Mike Fletcher A Novel] Reference
He may have no inkling of the traditions of fair play, or of the reticences of courtesy, no shred of knightliness, and yet be a scholar in his way. From Wordnik.com. [Germany and the Germans From an American Point of View] Reference
Take away its knightliness of bearing, spirit of self-sacrifice, exhibition of pluck though defeat is certain, and what have you left to sport about?. From Wordnik.com. [Villa Elsa A Story of German Family Life] Reference
"I give thee this chain," said she, "and it will bring me joy to have it honored by thy true knightliness, and, giving it, I do wish thee all success.". From Wordnik.com. [Men of Iron] Reference
Their spotless blossoms were regarded as symbolising that delicacy of sentiment and blamelessness of life belonging to high courtesy and true knightliness. From Wordnik.com. [Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan Second Series] Reference
Surely this thing might be the first step in a career of true knightliness, albeit such humble deeds might never win the golden spurs of which men thought so much. From Wordnik.com. [In the Days of Chivalry] Reference
Their owner was a tall man, much bronzed, and not regularly handsome; but he had that knightliness of look and bearing which always wins notice and attracts liking. From Wordnik.com. [A Vanished Hand] Reference
For the world had given her to him, enthusiastic friends had congratulated him: she had exalted him for true knightliness; and he considered the proofs well earned, though he did not value them low. From Wordnik.com. [Diana of the Crossways — Complete] Reference
None realized better than he the cruel side to the boasted chivalry of the age; and these middle-aged burgesses, with no knightliness of dress or bearing, would little move the loftier side of the King's nature. From Wordnik.com. [In the Days of Chivalry] Reference
By the luck of a catching phrase applied to him by Robert G. Ingersoll, he stood before the imagination of the country "as the plumed knight," although on looking back we search in vain for any trait of knightliness or chivalry in him. From Wordnik.com. [Theodore Roosevelt An Intimate Biography]
The impulse, it was quite obvious, was prompted less by conventionality than by a knightliness of heart, and Celestina, who had never before been the recipient of such courtesies, found herself inexpressibly touched by the trifling attentions. From Wordnik.com. [Flood Tide] Reference
Here it is worthy of remark that the princes treated Franz with all the knightliness and courtesy which were customary between social equals in the days of chivalry, addressing him at most rather as a rebellious child than as an insurgent subject. From Wordnik.com. [German Culture Past and Present] Reference
Thinking of herself, however, was destructive to the form of her mirror of knightliness: he wavered, he fled for good, as the rosy vapour born of our sensibility must do when we relapse to coldness, and the more completely when we try to command it. From Wordnik.com. [The Amazing Marriage — Complete] Reference
Lady Anne herself bade me hold the Lady Alice as my true lady, and to serve her in all knightliness! ". From Wordnik.com. [Men of Iron] Reference
'True knightliness!'. From Wordnik.com. [Diana of the Crossways — Complete] Reference
Of knightliness the flower. From Wordnik.com. [Tales of the Chesapeake] Reference
For his gentle knightliness. From Wordnik.com. [The King's Tragedy. James I of Scots.-20th February, 1437] Reference
Of his great knightliness was he known. From Wordnik.com. [Song and Legend from the Middle Ages] Reference
Pelleas for his strength and great knightliness. From Wordnik.com. [Stories of King Arthur's Knights Told to the Children by Mary MacGregor] Reference
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