chivalry

How To Use chivalry In A Sentence

• And here I thought you would hold it out for me, considering the whole chivalry thing.
• For all his bold chivalry this watchful Celt seems surely to have strayed from a wayside pulpit.
• There were the Knights of the Round Table, vowed to the highest ideals of chivalry, and the greatest of them, Sir Lancelot, who, of course, has a tragic love affair with the Queen.
• His wit was quick and always kept his friends laughing; he had a genuine heart and sense of chivalry.
• It was in these vales that the Saxons of the plain and the Gad of the mountains had many a desperate and bloody encounter, in which it was frequently impossible to decide the palm of victory between the mailed chivalry of the low country and the plaided clans whom they opposed. The Fair Maid of Perth
• I should much prefer a _tenson_ of the twelfth century, when two or three masters of the _Gai Saber_ discussed questions of love and chivalry. Gryll Grange
• It was the idea of chivalry and courage that appealed.
• Where does chivalry at last become something more than a mere procession of plumes and armor, to be lamented by Burke, except in some of the less ambitious verses of the Trouvères, where we hear the canakin clink too emphatically, perhaps, but which at least paint living men and possible manners? The Writings of James Russell Lowell in Prose and Poetry, Volume V Political Essays
• The Normans; or rather the private adventurers of that warlike people, who founded a powerful kingdom in Apulia and Sicily, shook the throne of Constantinople, displayed the trophies of chivalry, and almost realized the wonders of romance. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
• More resonantly, Joan, due to her chastity, courage, chivalry, piety and intelligence, personified an exceptional female figurehead.