Noun : a chevalier of the Legion of Honor. From Dictionary.com.
"That M. de Livry and the chevalier were the same?". From Wordnik.com. [Une fille du régent. English] Reference
"The chevalier is a fool!" declared Martial promptly. From Wordnik.com. [The Honor of the Name] Reference
“The chevalier is a fool!” declared Martial promptly. From Wordnik.com. [The Honor of the Name] Reference
The word comes from the word chevalier, which is French for "knight.". From Wordnik.com. [The Pioneer Woman - Full RSS Feed] Reference
Dubois, calling the chevalier's attention to the looseness of his coat. From Wordnik.com. [Une fille du régent. English] Reference
The chevalier was the only person with whom he could exchange a few ideas. From Wordnik.com. [Beatrix] Reference
The chevalier is a great soldier and the bravest of men, but he has one fault. From Wordnik.com. [The Masters of the Peaks A Story of the Great North Woods] Reference
But it passed, as he remembered that the chevalier was a woodsman of experience and surpassing skill. From Wordnik.com. [The Shadow of the North A Story of Old New York and a Lost Campaign] Reference
I love Judi Dench, and I love the word 'chevalier'. From Wordnik.com. [The Pioneer Woman - Full RSS Feed] Reference
After the defeat of the "chevalier," Mercer had escaped by the way of Inverness to America, and taken up his residence in Virginia. From Wordnik.com. [Life of George Washington — Volume 01] Reference
"chevalier" himself to the Brazilian coffee planter who was "backing" the show. From Wordnik.com. [Cleek, the Master Detective] Reference
Zelie, the 'chevalier's' only daughter, a slack-wire artist; the other, Signor Scarmelli, a trapeze performer, who is the lady's fiance. ". From Wordnik.com. [Cleek, the Master Detective] Reference
One, Mlle. Zelie, the 'chevalier's' only daughter, a slack-wire artist; the other, Signor Scarmelli, a trapeze performer, who is the lady's fiancé. ". From Wordnik.com. [Cleek: the Man of the Forty Faces] Reference
I refuse the chevalier because I prefer to wait for. From Wordnik.com. [The Rose of Old St. Louis] Reference
The best of the fish caught in the lake is the ombre-chevalier. From Wordnik.com. [The South of France—East Half] Reference
He had crept cautiously up just as the chevalier ceased speaking. From Wordnik.com. [The Rose of Old St. Louis] Reference
Suddenly the chevalier dropped on one knee, his hand on his heart. From Wordnik.com. [The Rose of Old St. Louis] Reference
The young chevalier found himself on the bridge at Bâle at high noon. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. 12, No. 32, November, 1873] Reference
I watched the chevalier narrowly as she spoke of the whippoorwill, and. From Wordnik.com. [The Rose of Old St. Louis] Reference
Yet that is exactly the accusation made by the chevalier against Dr. Saugrain. From Wordnik.com. [The Rose of Old St. Louis] Reference
He only refuses to believe that the chevalier was sent by my friends to take me back to. From Wordnik.com. [The Rose of Old St. Louis] Reference
The chevalier bowed low, with his hand on his heart, and stepped aside to allow us to pass. From Wordnik.com. [The Rose of Old St. Louis] Reference
I wondered what the chevalier could be saying in that low voice of his to move her so deeply. From Wordnik.com. [The Rose of Old St. Louis] Reference
Dr. Saugrain admits that all the chevalier said about my present rank and future prospects is true. From Wordnik.com. [The Rose of Old St. Louis] Reference
The knight raised up woman, and she made him a reproachless chevalier in return; but it did not end there. From Wordnik.com. [The Youth of Jefferson A Chronicle of College Scrapes at Williamsburg, in Virginia, A.D. 1764] Reference
To my amazement, my glance was met with the sweetest of smiles, and it was the chevalier who winced this time. From Wordnik.com. [The Rose of Old St. Louis] Reference
Yes, even the friends that have been so dear to me begin to seem rude and boorish, as the chevalier called them. From Wordnik.com. [The Rose of Old St. Louis] Reference
Oh! believe me, I knew not that I addressed the generous chevalier who, in that hour of despair, redeemed my life. From Wordnik.com. [The International Monthly Magazine, Volume 5, No. 1, January, 1852] Reference
The chevalier in coat-of-mail had been killed in the battle of the Mansourah during the first crusade of St. Louis. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
It fell to my lot to cross swords with the chevalier, and I cannot be sure that he did it wilfully, yet so it seemed to me. From Wordnik.com. [The Rose of Old St. Louis] Reference
Il eut pour pére le chevalier Georges Hamilton, petit-fils du duc d'Hamilton, qui fut aussi duc de Châtelleraud en France. From Wordnik.com. [Notes and Queries, Number 219, January 7, 1854 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc] Reference
All I beg of him is to drop the chevalier for this once, and see women with a woman's eyes and not a man's, -- see them as they are. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 107, September, 1866] Reference
I know I am an unconscionable woman, to ask such a thing; but then you are a true chevalier; you always were, and you saw her merit directly. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 109, November, 1866] Reference
Of course he went over at once, heels over head, turning a complete somersault, and alighted erect, astride the neck of the kneeling chevalier. From Wordnik.com. [The Rose of Old St. Louis] Reference
Moreover, the fewer we take into our confidence the better, for I am assured the chevalier has spies and secret emissaries that we do not suspect. From Wordnik.com. [The Rose of Old St. Louis] Reference
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