It is not necessary to censure their lack of so-called chivalrous woman-worship. From Wordnik.com. [Wine, Women, and Song Mediaeval Latin Students' songs; Now first translated into English verse] Reference
What is the present meaning of the word "chivalrous"?. From Wordnik.com. [Early European History] Reference
By: Pages tagged "chivalrous" on September 12, 2008 at 11: 34 am. From Wordnik.com. [Political Correctness « I Had the Write Idea] Reference
A couple of weeks ago, I had the chance to be sort of 'chivalrous' two times in a ten minute span. From Wordnik.com. [kevynwight Diary Entry] Reference
A knight true to these duties was called "chivalrous," a word which means very much what we mean by the word "gentlemanly.". From Wordnik.com. [Introductory American History] Reference
Don't be frightened about me in your kind of chivalrous heart. From Wordnik.com. [In the Wilderness] Reference
He lifted his wife out of the cart in his strong arms with a kind of chivalrous tenderness. From Wordnik.com. [A Phantom Lover] Reference
The "chivalrous" attitude towards women was, as the word itself suggests, a medieval survival. From Wordnik.com. [The Task of Social Hygiene] Reference
There are some knightly souls who even go so far as to make their visits to bookshops a kind of chivalrous errantry at large. From Wordnik.com. [Pipefuls] Reference
'And even though I'm from Croydon I still have some kind of chivalrous notions and one of them is I won't eat before my lady. From Wordnik.com. [Home | Mail Online] Reference
"chivalrous" as exactly descriptive of something in his whole. From Wordnik.com. [Stories of Authors, British and American] Reference
'chivalrous' to a modern gentleman, this is no unmeaning term. From Wordnik.com. [Historical and Political Essays] Reference
"chivalrous" men, like me, who don't mean you harm, but can't help seeing you're made for love!. From Wordnik.com. [Complete Plays of John Galsworthy] Reference
But for a chivalrous young man, there was a problem. From Wordnik.com. [Our Storied Lives: The Quest For 'Something More'] Reference
I am chivalrous, French, the only person he esteems!. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
Actor Sean Connery's incarnation of Bond was chivalrous. From Wordnik.com. [Mail Call] Reference
I never did anything so chivalrous in my life; no, never!. From Wordnik.com. [Women in the Life of Balzac] Reference
Our sympathetic chords are kept refined by chivalrous deeds. From Wordnik.com. [My Daily Meditation for the Circling Year] Reference
Desbarreaux kissed her hand with a gallant and chivalrous air. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
And then, on a good day, Stevens could be charming, chivalrous. From Wordnik.com. [What I learned reporting on Alaska's ??Uncle Ted' Stevens] Reference
No man can at once be mean and magnanimous, chivalrous and selfish. From Wordnik.com. [My Daily Meditation for the Circling Year] Reference
She was not a hopeful individual to enlist in a chivalrous enterprise. From Wordnik.com. [Judith of the Cumberlands] Reference
The Fairy, tutelary or persecuting, of the chivalrous metrical romance. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 55, No. 344, June, 1844] Reference
Nothing could be more piquant, alert, chivalrous -- in short, worthy of a. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
He had in him a chivalrous element which would paralyze his frenzy before. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
Her eyes were beautiful, and the detective was led to say with chivalrous truth and gallantry. From Wordnik.com. [A Successful Shadow A Detective's Successful Quest] Reference
Her appearance awoke all those chivalrous feelings which are the honor of the military profession. From Wordnik.com. [Woman on the American Frontier] Reference
I ought to be inventive in chivalrous enterprise, and I ought to covet the hardest parts of the field. From Wordnik.com. [My Daily Meditation for the Circling Year] Reference
Only -- and he was quite right -- Paul wished one evening to reap the benefit of his chivalrous conduct. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
When they can't sleep with you, they're suddenly very interested in the chivalrous version of themselves. From Wordnik.com. [Dear Caddy] Reference
As he heard the window open above his head, he turned and bowed to Clemence with much chivalrous gallantry. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
Sara found Tim's young, chivalrous devotion very soothing to the wound her pride had suffered at Garth's hands. From Wordnik.com. [The Hermit of Far End] Reference
Born for action, for chivalrous and incessant struggle, he had sacrificed his first youth to battling for his country. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
I move like a gymnast or martial artist and embody the vilest of pimps or the most chivalrous and passionate of lovers. From Wordnik.com. [Don’t Judge Me By My Tights] Reference
Near Sylvania, a small town ten miles from Toledo, the train halted to sand the track, and our chivalrous friends got off. From Wordnik.com. [A Woman's Life-Work — Labors and Experiences] Reference
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