How To Use chevalier In A Sentence
- Meanwhile - long before any of his music appeared in print - he was ennobled and, in 1702, made Chevalier de l' Ordre de Latran.
- One of the horses "foundered," so a zealous chevalier offered his mount; "the animal was full of vigour and pulled away a thigh. "Am I sorry I tried? Yes and no. Yes, because it accomplished little except to throw away the rest of my life."
- The kind Chevalier prefaced it by saying, that he was for the present boarding in the Minorite convent at Brussels; that he had thoughts of making his salut there, and retiring for ever from the world, devoting himself to the severest practices of religion. The Memoires of Barry Lyndon
- Nor did he feel any pricklings of the conscience about it, because he believed, even if he gave warning of St. Luc's presence, the wary chevalier would escape. The Shadow of the North A Story of Old New York and a Lost Campaign
- Old ladies of family over their hyson, and grey-haired lairds over their punch, I had often heard utter a little harmless treason; while the former remembered having led down a dance with the Chevalier, and the latter recounted the feats they had performed at Preston, Clifton, and Falkirk. Redgauntlet
- He was made a chevalier of the French Legion of Honor in 1896, and received the Order of Saint Michael from the government of Bavaria in 1898.
- Saar," said the Chevalier, "Monsieur le Capitaine, I vas not at the siege of the petit Leyth, and I know not what you say about the cockloft; but I will say for Monseigneur de Strozzi, that he understood the grande guerre, and was grand capitaine -- plus grand -- that is more great, it may be, than some of the capitaines of The Fortunes of Nigel
- Indeed, so emphatic is his artistic and, with it, social affectation that, when the novel's title character calls him a cook, he takes this as an affront to his honor: 'I am Chevalier de Juillet,' said [Mirobolant] ..., slapping his breast, 'and he has insulted me .... Alexis Soyer and the Rise of the Celebrity Chef
- Despardieux, milor," said the Chevalier, "if he had stayed one moment, he should have had a _torchon_ -- what you call a dishclout, pinned to him for a piece of shroud, to show he be de ghost of one grand fanfaron. The Fortunes of Nigel
- _ Le Chevalier de _Fourilles_ fesait la même change dans la cavalerie. Notes and Queries, Number 38, July 20, 1850