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But there was a certain chivalric thrill of warm blood in him, despite his Yankee ancestry and New.    From Wordnik.com.  [Where the Trail Forks] Reference

Mr. Pneumonia was not what you would call a chivalric old gentleman.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Trimmed Lamp, and other Stories of the Four Million] Reference

It was what I suppose would be called a chivalric look; and yet chivalry was only an improved barbarism.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 12, No. 31, October, 1873] Reference

But there is more of this 'chivalric' spirit in the same article.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 2, No. 1, July, 1862] Reference

The following specimen of "chivalric" literature is copied from the.    From Wordnik.com.  [Incidents of the War: Humorous, Pathetic, and Descriptive] Reference

This American was just the kind of chivalric fool to accept a challenge.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Lure of the Mask] Reference

How the "chivalric" mind can endure the loss of such gratifications it is difficult to conceive.    From Wordnik.com.  [Scenes in the Life of Harriet Tubman.] Reference

So-called "chivalric" gestures, come they from men to women, or vice-versa are ultimately valuable in the spirit in which they're given.    From Wordnik.com.  [Modestly Yours] Reference

Alas! he had been prompted only by chivalric generosity.    From Wordnik.com.  [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference

At length, a band of bold Republicans, headed by the chivalric.    From Wordnik.com.  [Edmond Dantès] Reference

Give me your peerless dignity, your noble and chivalric courtesy!.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Continental Monthly, Vol 6, No 5, November 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy] Reference

She wishes power, and scouts the mere chivalric smile and homage.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Youth of Jefferson A Chronicle of College Scrapes at Williamsburg, in Virginia, A.D. 1764] Reference

Dickens, the philosophic page of Bulwer, the chivalric romances of Walter.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Book for All Readers An Aid to the Collection, Use, and Preservation of Books and the Formation of Public and Private Libraries] Reference

Thus philosophizes the chivalric gentleman, until he falls into a fast sleep.    From Wordnik.com.  [An Outcast or, Virtue and Faith] Reference

This gallant and chivalric officer died with a reputation dear to our country.    From Wordnik.com.  [Three Years on the Plains Observations of Indians, 1867-1870] Reference

According to chivalric usage it became his duty to present his lord's shield to his.    From Wordnik.com.  [Christmas: Its Origin and Associations Together with Its Historical Events and Festive Celebrations During Nineteen Centuries] Reference

There the grave and chivalric planter sports with the nice young man, who is cultivating.    From Wordnik.com.  [An Outcast or, Virtue and Faith] Reference

She wonders they do not recognize her as a distinguished person, from the chivalric State of.    From Wordnik.com.  [An Outcast or, Virtue and Faith] Reference

When he springs into action, this diffident hero discovers within himself his true, chivalric nature.    From Wordnik.com.  [Very Dangerous Liaisons] Reference

Gruyère, the last remaining feudal sovereignty, the old chivalric order forever passed from Switzerland.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Counts of Gruyère] Reference

With undiminished confidence in the honor of the English gentleman, with continued chivalric spirit Captain.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Story of the Kearsarge and Alabama] Reference

There was much of the chivalric in his character, and he shared to the full his people's love of hard fighting.    From Wordnik.com.  [Christmas: Its Origin and Associations Together with Its Historical Events and Festive Celebrations During Nineteen Centuries] Reference

Madame de Tecle readily attributed the equivocal conduct of the Count to the inspiration of a chivalric loyalty.    From Wordnik.com.  [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference

Where were now all his chivalric thoughts -- his noble resolutions -- his courage and devotion to his lady fair?.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Youth of Jefferson A Chronicle of College Scrapes at Williamsburg, in Virginia, A.D. 1764] Reference

Our division, he informs me, is understood to possess the chivalric and dashing qualities which the people admire.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Citizen-Soldier or, Memoirs of a Volunteer] Reference

Like the gallant Fremont, when he offered to resign his shirts to his chivalric creditor, he could give them no more.    From Wordnik.com.  [An Outcast or, Virtue and Faith] Reference

The modern acceptance of the term omits all those gentle qualities of mind which go to make the true chivalric disposition.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Book-Hunter at Home] Reference

They will grow bolder, and learn to regard these chivalric concessions to their purity and weakness as their natural rights.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Youth of Jefferson A Chronicle of College Scrapes at Williamsburg, in Virginia, A.D. 1764] Reference

Many of them had been born and reared southerners -- many had only the chivalric intention to fight for the cause they felt right.    From Wordnik.com.  [Four Years in Rebel Capitals An Inside View of Life in the Southern Confederacy from Birth to Death] Reference

The moon sheds a pale light over the city as the two chivalric gentlemen, having rejoined and sworn to have revenge, are seen entering.    From Wordnik.com.  [An Outcast or, Virtue and Faith] Reference

Endowed with all his father's firmness, he possessed the chivalric ardor of his predecessors and a full share of their personal charm.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Counts of Gruyère] Reference

During the reign of James the First there was a revival of chivalric exercises, especially in connection with the training of the young.    From Wordnik.com.  [Christmas: Its Origin and Associations Together with Its Historical Events and Festive Celebrations During Nineteen Centuries] Reference

Scottish Harp vibrates to sentiments of chivalric nationality in the hands of Alexander Maclagan, Andrew Park, Robert White, and William.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume VI The Songs of Scotland of the Past Half Century] Reference

The better tales all had the exaltation of the chivalric spirit in view, and sought to achieve this end by allegory as well as by parable.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Book-Hunter at Home] Reference

Sucklings and Tom Stanleys -- breathing high chivalric homage to the fair; and volumes of engravings, full of castles or bright pictures of.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Youth of Jefferson A Chronicle of College Scrapes at Williamsburg, in Virginia, A.D. 1764] Reference