chivalric

How To Use chivalric In A Sentence

• She remembered -- she, then strong in her own untempted truth -- asking him, if he did not think that buying in the cheapest and selling in the dearest market proved some want of the transparent justice which is so intimately connected with the idea of truth: and she had used the word chivalric -- and her father had corrected her with the higher word, Christian; and so drawn the argument upon himself, while she sate silent by with a slight feeling of contempt. North and South
• Mr. Pneumonia was not what you would call a chivalric old gentleman. The Trimmed Lamp, and other Stories of the Four Million
• But in the course of playing out his spoof, Cervantes replaces the omniscience of the typical chivalric narrator with a pervasive uncertainty that detaches from the parody and becomes, in its own right, an aspect of the book.
• It examines chivalric ritual and tournament, much of which took place at Greenwich.
• It may simply be a parody of chivalric romances, as it claims to be.
• He had a taste for poetry and song, and he generally lived up to the chivalric code.
• Such concepts were derived partly from the feudal and chivalric traditions in which land was held from the Crown in exchange for the performance of military duties.
• The tyranny associated by Renaissance humanists with the age of chivalric knights and with the knight figure caused romances that heroize the bygone age to fall into disfavor.
• She talks at length about the ways in which women achieve honour and respect, and the ways in which the chivalric code can be applied to everyday life.
• All the new knights were appointed for their chivalric reputations.