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.
In late medieval Christianity, Michael together with St George became the patron of chivalry, and the patron of the first chivalric order of France, the Order of Saint Michael of 1469.
During the medieval era of chivalry, the names of English maidens and bachelors were put into boxes and drawn out in pairs.
All the courageous deeds and tales of chivalry that they had so eagerly talked about were so far away now, like a faint memory just out of reach.
Later medieval chivalry has been criticized for being decadent and other-worldly, yet it never lost touch with the changing military dimensions of war nor was blind to its bloody realities.
The first stanza reveals a speaker characterized by vainglory and chivalry at one and the same time.
He has that old-fashioned chivalry that makes him wear a shirt and tie, and his tweedy jacket reminds me of one my dad used to wear.
She wanted to thank Hugh for his unforgotten chivalry toward her.
What is the big idea behind chivalry or expecting a man to do things that might seem unnatural to him?
Once again, chivalry and morals, my friends, will take you places.
Sheriffe intervened out of a misplaced sense of chivalry, said Mr Sharpe.
Shakespeare’s main object, or shall I rather say his ruling impulse, was to translate the poetic heroes of paganism into the not less rude, but more intellectually vigorous, and more _featurely_, warriors of Christian chivalry, — and to substantiate the distinct and graceful profiles or outlines of the Homeric epic into the flesh and blood of the romantic drama; — in short, to give a grand history-piece in the robust style of Shakespeare, Ben Jonson, Beaumont and Fletcher
Architecture after about 1580 was inspired by medieval ideals of chivalry as much as by Renaissance classicism.
Loyalty, honesty, frankness, gratitude, chivalry, magnanimity - these are the hallmarks of the good friend, the good husband and father, the nice guy we all hope our daughters will marry.
Gold, — and I thought of asking you the colour of Anne Bullen’s breastknot, which cost the Pope three kingdoms; but I am afraid you are but a novice in such recollections of love and chivalry. Peveril of the Peak
Nor is this the first instance of chivalry in the midst of frenzy.
Only the nobility participated in warfare, using the symbol of medieval chivalry, the chariot.
His Southern hereditament of chivalry, his compassion for the oppressed and his defence of the down-trodden, were never in abeyance from the beginning of his career to the very end. Mark Twain
Society's double standards tend to help female murderers in the courtroom; in the Deep South, where most of America's executions take place, there is almost a chivalry towards women.
The honour of knighthood derives from the usages of mediaeval chivalry, as does the method normally used to confer the knighthood: the accolade, or the touch of a sword by the Sovereign.
There were apparently golden spurs of chivalry, and armills, which were bracelets. Times, Sunday Times
The Order of the Garter is an ancient order of chivalry.
A code of behavior, chivalry, evolved from these feudal contests of skill.
The Spanish kings, in conformity to the martial spirit of the times when cards were introduced, were all mounted on horseback, as befitted generals and commanders-in-chief; but their next in command (among the cards) was el caballo, the knight-errant on horseback -- for the old Spanish cards had no queens; and the third in order was the soto, or attendant, that is, the esquire, or armour-bearer of the knight -- all which was exactly conformable to those ideas of chivalry which ruled the age. The Gaming Table : Its Votaries and Victims : Vol. 2
Henry was in his twenties, was handsome and gallant and well-trained in the ways of chivalry.
She has the elfin air of a creature from the romances of chivalry.
The scale rewards honor, chivalry and courage, but also deducts for blatant foolishness and sheer idiocy.
The universality of the mouse fear roves its prehistoric origin, showing how consistently and successfully women have been educating men in heroism; in earliest times it probably required a whole dinotherium ramping at the cave-mouth to induce primitive man to draw weapon in his mate's defense, but now to evoke the quintessence of chivalry, all a woman has to do is to hop on a chair at sight of a mouse. The Joys of Being a Woman and Other Papers
Arthurian quests in the name of chivalry, knight-errants fighting for the love and honor of a virtuous woman lose out in these Arthurian storylines to Arthur's subduing of countless lands.
Chivalry, pure and passionless women, unearthly beauty, some high southern fantasy possessed them.
The Druze are known for their generosity and are guided by a sense of chivalry and honor.
Thus was generated a moral, religious, and social code, which over the centuries became more closely defined and controlled through the conduct of tournaments, laws of war, orders of chivalry, and heraldry.
In that imaginary reality what drives people to act in one way or another is ideas of honour, chivalry, nobility and heroism.
Their sons are sometimes not models of chivalry.
Chivalry is defined as a combination of qualities including courage, honour, courtesy and a readiness to help the weak.
At last Don Quixote's end came, after he had received all the sacraments, and had in full and forcible terms exprest his detestation of books of chivalry. The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to Prose, Vol. VIII (of X) - Continental Europe II.
You wish us to imbue your boys and girls with ideal standards of life, but all too often we see them, having left our schools and colleges, full of the knightly chivalry of youth, torn in the world of business between the ideal of Christlikeness and the selfish rivalry of commercial conflict. Christianity and Progress
Imagine living in a peaceful world of chivalry, manners, and intelligence that was the 1800's.
To risk life to save a smile on a face of a woman or a child is the secret of chivalry. Dejan Stojanovic
This is reinforced by the final exchange between Gawain and the Green Knight where the poet shows the way he feels feudalism should work - by banishing courtly love and women from the code of chivalry.
Many such characters desperately need a ‘code’ to live by, like the social code of chivalry for Don Quixote.
The fifth five that was used, as I find, by this knight was free-giving and friendliness first before all, and chastity and chivalry ever changeless and straight, and piety surpassing all points: these perfect five were hasped upon him harder than on any man else. The Pentangel Depaynt of Pure Golde Hwes
He was adored by his men, not least for his courage, chivalry and handsome appearance.
Orders of chivalry had their origins in the religious orders of the Medieval Church, and in particular those created in the Holy Land during the crusades.
With the absence of humility, yet his important role in society and his ideals of chivalry, Beowulf was the definition of a hero in his own time.
The legends of King Arthur represent the apotheosis of chivalry.
Manuals of chivalry exhorted the ideal man of arms to be temperate to preserve the fighting edge.
Women born in the Sixties onwards are so unused to chivalry that we wouldn't know what to do with it if it bit us on the nose, apologised and draped its coat over that puddle we were about to step into.
Easier to detect was a sense of chivalry and propriety among the athletes.
The article stressed the explicit Catholicity of Christian chivalry, comparing the ideals that bound knights to service with the characteristic vows of Catholic monastic life.
The knights of Duart and Sleat, the chiefs of Clanranald and Glengarry, the Lochaber seigniory of Lochiel, and the titled chivalry of Sutherland and Seaforth, [18] formed subjects of poetic eulogy. The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume II. The Songs of Scotland of the past half century
On bended knees, he begs him - in the exaggerated speech he has learned from the books on chivalry - to dub him a knight.
Like many before and since, Chandler saw the detective as embodying the medieval conception of chivalry.
He'd seen his friend dismiss a flirtatious girl with gentle chivalry and no second thoughts, and he'd seen the occasional sidelong glances the brunet had sent his way.
The code of chivalry that embodied the knightly ideals - honor, generosity and courtesy - became the code of honor of the gentleman, and the foundation of fencing etiquette.
But the two world wars, won not by brigades of cavalry but by tanks and bombers, required a reassessment of what constituted true chivalry. Malory: The Life and Times of King Arthur's Chronicler
Anyway, on the topic of gender (since you brought it up), I'm not being chauvinistic or anything (although technically chivalry is chauvinistic, and most women seem to love it), but I think it's telling that there has never been a female in the Navy SEALS. Tom McIntyre Explains His Picks for our 2009 Hunting and Fishing Heroes and Villians Face-Off
The 15th century saw a decline in the real value of chivalry, and though new orders, such as the Order of the Golden Fleece were created, tournaments survived merely as ritualized ceremonies.
Who does not remember the eccentric hero who chose to live in the medieval world of chivalry and thought of himself as a knight in shining armour?
For a moment, I felt like I had been transported back in time, into a medieval world of chivalry and magic.
Assuredly the Dean has a purse, and a tolerably well-filled one; and, assuredly, the Archbishop, on departing from an inn, not only settles his reckoning, but leaves something handsome for the servants, and does not say that he is forbidden by the Gospel to pay for what he has eaten, or the trouble he has given, as a certain Spanish cavalier said he was forbidden by the statutes of chivalry. The Romany Rye A Sequel to 'Lavengro'
It is the very definition of chivalry, with its valiant knights and adoring maidens. Times, Sunday Times
I figure that chivalry, honour, friendship and, of course, romance are all part of film noir as is the inner darkness of the central character - usually - and certainly the villains.
Jen is neither a typical villain nor a persona of heroic proportions in the conventional sense of chivalry inherent in the notion of wuxia.
How dare they believe that they could stand before the flower of Bretonnian chivalry!
However, Brooks' point is that ambition crowds out other cultivated qualities, such as chivalry.
It is somehow alien to the Eastern mind to practice this totally European thing called chivalry, and in spite of all their twaddle about "Bushido" they do not understand that a prisoner-of-war who is helpless must not be kicked around, must not be outraged, and must be treated generously in consequence. Some Experiences as a Medical Officer with the Royal Army Medical Corps
This is the man whom folklorists and historians - by unimaginable mental and moral gymnastics - have endowed with qualities of quixotic chivalry, and set up as a national hero.
They will consider different interpretations of the famous clash of August 22nd, 1485, within the broader context of medieval warfare and chivalry.
The Middle Ages were also the great age of chivalry.
Originally mostly religious, eventually they covered a wide range of subjects—historical, literary and scientific, from small breviaries to epic tales of chivalry and huge choir books of Gregorian chant. Past the Crowds, the Louvre's Little Gem of a Show
Richard Oliphant, who comes from Skye but was educated in England, was confirmed as Clan Chief by the Court of the Lord Lyon in Edinburgh, which adjudicates on matters of heraldry and chivalry - the last permanent court of its kind in Europe.
The hanging Tower at Pisa is, we believe, some thirty feet or so off the perpendicular, and there is one at Caerphilly about seventeen; but these are nothing to the castles in the air we have seen built by the touch of a female magician; nor is it an unusual thing with artists of the fair sex to order their plumed chivalry to gallop down precipices considerably steeper than a house, on animals apparently produced between the tiger and the bonassus. Recreations of Christopher North, Volume 2
Never, it is alleged, has Japan been soiled by the disobedient and rebellious acts common in other countries; while at the same time the Japanese nation, sharing to some extent in the supernatural virtues of its rulers, has been distinguished by a high-minded chivalry called Bushido, unknown in inferior lands. The Invention of a New Religion
It speaks of jousts, tournaments, wizards, falconry, enchantresses, damsels in distress, wars, quests, and the code of chivalry.
The term received an improved and more noble signification in the times of chivalry, when the desire to please manifested itself in feats of arms, and personal conflict. A Philosophical Dictionary
Such chivalry, it would seem, is an insult to the power and intelligence of the women of Utah, who celebrated their "enfranchisement" by a convention to favor the free coinage of silver, 16 to 1, and whose behavior on that occasion was, to say the least, boyish. Woman and the Republic — a Survey of the Woman-Suffrage Movement in the United States and a Discussion of the Claims and Arguments of Its Foremost Advocates
The legend of king arthur represent the apotheosis of chivalry.
The land has a fascinating history of valour and chivalry.
The land has a fascinating history of valour and chivalry.
The war was fought with heavy loss of life and notable courage and chivalry on both sides.
Oh well, it's not like I expected chivalry and flattery.
Both Julie and Marie seemed to revel in his old-fashioned chivalry. A RODENT OF DOUBT
If wine be often taken, anon by drunkenness it quencheth the sight of reason, and comforteth beastly madness, and so the body abideth as it were a ship in the sea without stern and without lodesman, and as chivalry without prince or duke. Mediaeval Lore from Bartholomew Anglicus
It was at this court, and at her daughter Marie's in Champagne, that the codes of chivalry and of courtly love were established, in close contact with the great ladies.
He was also encouraged to display the virtues of chivalry, a code of conduct created by the clergy to curb the brutality of this order of knights.
Age, -- the greatest and the last of the old Norman chivalry, kinglier in pride, in state, in possessions, and in renown than the king himself, Richard Nevile, Earl of Salisbury and Warwick. The Last of the Barons — Volume 01
No doubt Coppola and his screenwriter, John Milius, were fully aware of the plot of Die Walküre, the ingenious portrayal of the helicopter gunships as modernized, mechanized Valkyries — the music both romanticizes combat and wryly points out the absurdity of ancient notions of chivalry in a war where the killing is almost industrialized. In the corners of my mind
Her key argument is that young women, like men, sought to preserve rather than challenge the Southern tradition of male chivalry and white ladyhood. Berkshire Post-mortem « Knitting Clio
– The days of chivalry are no more: the knight no longer sallies forth in ponderous armour, mounted upon a steed as invulnerable as himself. Letters for Literary Ladies: To Which is Added, An Essay on the Noble Science of Self-Justification
But chivalry is not dead. Times, Sunday Times
The Middle Ages were also the great age of chivalry.
I believe that teaching of the Master, so often regarded by men in this world as impracticable and unpractical, is not only morally the highest, but in actual practice it is the most effective, as the experience of men and of nations so abundantly proves; and the higher you and I rise in the direction of chivalry, the more do we reveal our kinship with our Heavenly Father Who allows His sun to shine upon the evil and upon the good, and sends His rain upon the just and upon the unjust. Chivalry in the British Empire
The most dramatic illustrations of the lack of chivalry toward black and other minority women comes from examining who gets sentenced to prison.
For herself, Marion thought his dark brown eyes were rather puppy-dog and that he had a floppy, confused look, despite all his stiff, correct behaviour and chivalry.
The roysterous young dogs; caroling, howling, breaking the Lord Abbot's sleep, -- after that sinful chivalry cock-fight of theirs! Past and Present
Be patient, Sir Geoffrey," said the Countess, who now discerned the cause of her kinswoman's apprehension; "and be assured I did not need your chivalry to defend me against this discourteous faitour, as Peveril of the Peak
Shivering in their thin white gowns, the brides draped over their bare shoulders the dark suit jackets handed over by their husbands - on this one day, at least, models of chivalry.
Remember, in the beginning they burn his books of chivalry, but that has no effect.
It is the very definition of chivalry, with its valiant knights and adoring maidens. Times, Sunday Times
Admiration of his fantastic heroes and their grotesque 'chivalry' doings and romantic juvenilities still survives here, in an atmosphere in which is already perceptible the wholesome and practical nineteenth-century smell of cotton-factories and locomotives; and traces of its inflated language and other windy humbuggeries survive along with it. Life on the Mississippi
Just an after thought, with chivalry being dead, how can the perfect man still exist?
Chivalry, pure and passionless women, unearthly beauty: the high Southern fantasy possessed them.
The creation of these late orders of chivalry proliferated in European nations in the 19th century and was emulated by emergent aspirant nations in their spheres of influence.
Their heroes fight, after preliminary parley which would do credit to the chivalry of the Hippodrome; and their lances invariably splinter as frush as the texture of the bullrush. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 379, May, 1847
in Hindu folklore Rama is the epitome of chivalry and courage and obedience to sacred law
As the name suggests it concerns itself with chivalry, honour and knightly contests.
That other "corsair" -- as the Spaniards called him -- that other charming and heroic shape in England's chequered chronicle of chivalry and crime -- famous in arts and arms, politics, science, literature, endowed with so many of the gifts by which men confer lustre on their age and country, whose name was already a part of History of the United Netherlands, 1590-99 — Complete
Ken you might be my exclusive proof that chivalry is not dead, you RULE! One for all, and all for one « TalentedApps
She wasn't in the mood for Danny's misplaced sense of chivalry right now.
There is now a thriving black market in armorial bearings and medieval chivalry.
The biblical virtues of modesty, chivalry, chastity and fidelity are ignored.
These castles afford another evidence that the fictions of romantick chivalry had for their basis the real manners of the feudal times, when every Lord of a seignory lived in his hold lawless and unaccountable, with all the licentiousness and insolence of uncontested superiority and unprincipled power. A Journey to the Western Isles of Scotland
The legend of king arthur represent the apotheosis of chivalry.
The code of chivalry that embodied the knightly ideals - honor, generosity and courtesy - became the code of honor of the gentleman, and the foundation of fencing etiquette.
During the Middle Ages, chivalry was a code of brave and courteous conduct for knights.
He is full of poetry, romance and chivalry. DISRAELI: A Personal History
Drunk on his own chivalry, Ashurst went on murmuring.
In fact chivalry has been defined as the interpenetration of Christianity into the practice of arms: the chivalrous knight of the Middle Ages was not only a brave and skilful fighter, ready whenever occasion arose to reveal his prowess on the field of battle, but also he stood for utter chastity, for a high standard of honor, for the protection of the defenseless and the weak, and for mercy and humanity to a vanquished foe. Chivalry in the British Empire
It has its longueurs and at times is longsome enough; but it is interesting as a comparison between the chivalry of Al – Islam and European knight-errantry. The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
That other "corsair" -- as the Spaniards called him -- that other charming and heroic shape in England's chequered chronicle of chivalry and crime -- famous in arts and arms, politics, science, literature, endowed with so many of the gifts by which men confer lustre on their age and country, whose name was already a part of England's eternal glory, whose tragic destiny was to be her undying shame—Raleigh, the soldier, sailor, scholar, statesman, poet, historian, geographical discoverer, planter of empires yet unborn—was also present, helping to organize the somewhat chaotic elements of which the chief Anglo-Dutch enterprise for this year against—the Spanish world-dominion was compounded. PG Edition of Netherlands series — Complete
The roysterous young dogs; carolling, howling, breaking the Lord Abbot's sleep, -- after that sinful chivalry cockfight of theirs! Past and Present Thomas Carlyle's Collected Works, Vol. XIII.
It was also a vehicle for that element which we call chivalry, which the church infused into it to fashion and mould the rude soldiers of feudal times into Christian knights, and, as it The Book of the Epic
I am a southerner, and southerners have a strong tradition of chivalry.
“Be patient, Sir Geoffrey,” said the Countess, who now discerned the cause of her kinswoman’s apprehension; “and be assured I did not need your chivalry to defend me against this discourteous faitour, as Morte d’Arthur would have called him. Peveril of the Peak
And while chivalry committed suicide over its ladies 'gloves, the stout, wooden-headed burghers, with an eye to the facts of life, dickered and bickered in trade. The Kempton-Wace Letters
I may be surrounded with a reminder of the old times but chivalry was never my forte and lucky for me no one expected it to be.
The Klan, it seemed, still had an ill-deserved reputation for chivalry in some circles left over from the period in the 1920s when it would horsewhip wayward husbands. Leonard Zeskind: Haley Barbour Has No Excuse
Marie seemed to revel in his old-fashioned chivalry.
When it's presented in this way, most women can see chivalry for the silly charade it really is.
This people — I mean the more lofty-minded of these crusaders, who act up to the pretences of the doctrines which they call chivalry — despise the thirst of gold, and gold itself, unless to hilt their swords, or to furnish forth some necessary expenses, as alike useless and contemptible. Count Robert of Paris
I suppose that means that in one small way, chivalry isn't dead.
She was the managing partner; the life was hers, not his; after his retirement they lived much abroad, where the poor captain, who could never learn any language but his own, sat in the corner mumchance; and even his son, carried away by his bright mother, did not recognise for long the treasures of simple chivalry that lay buried in the heart of his father. Memoir of Fleeming Jenkin
The adventures with robbers seem as if dreamed out of books of chivalry, and the tendency to allegorization affects one like an endeavor on the author's part to escape from the unrealities which he must have felt harassingly, Criticism and Fiction
Louis IX of France, canonized after his death, was in his lifetime a model of chivalry, justice, and piety for western Christendom, at once a rival and an exemplar to the English king.
Deeper roots can be traced in medieval romances of chivalry.
It speaks of jousts, tournaments, wizards, falconry, enchantresses, damsels in distress, wars, quests, and the code of chivalry.
When "Southern Chivalry" and the _purity_ of southern society are spoken of now, it is at once replied, that a large number of the slaves show, by their _color_, their indisputable claim to white paternity; and that, notwithstanding their near consanguineous relation to the whites, they are still held and treated, in all respects, _as slaves_. The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Omnibus
An atavist of the days of blind chivalry he was, a knight errant in the somber clothes of a fanatic. The Moon of Skulls
That man worried him; he was too chivalrous for his own good, too careless for his chivalry.
If you want a lot of nonsense about Southern chivalry, go to Gettysburg.
Indeed, he still had a high opinion of Slavic chivalry, based on a visit some years before to Leningrad. KARA KUSH
But this romanticized image with gentlemanly behavior and chivalry was largely devised by Victorian scholars in the 19th century.
For chivalry limits wars, gives quarter to enemies, controls aggression and brokers peace.
The age of chivalry was dead. THE HUNTING OF MAN
To risk life to save a smile on a face of a woman or a child is the secret of chivalry. Dejan Stojanovic
A court dealing with his appeal over an earlier confrontation heard that from a young age he had been regaled with stories of daring deeds, courage and chivalry in the SAS, told by his father, Tony.
She was impressed by his attention to the codes of chivalry.
Their heroes fight, after preliminary parley which would do credit to the chivalry of the Hippodrome; and their lances invariably splinter as frush as the texture of the bullrush. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 379, May, 1847
Saladin, as in most of the medieval chronicles, represents chivalry.
The festival of music, dance, martial arts and medieval chivalry will showcase a variety of costumes, colour and culture.
The well-established obsession of late medieval chivalry with heraldry, orders and tournaments became overwhelmingly apparent.
Who says chivalry is dead!!?? agree with robinhood. Extreme Aerial Bowfishing: Jumping Carp Breaks Woman's Jaw in Illinois
So forget Stepford; come to Brooklyn, where both civilization and chivalry - the good kind - are lively and well.
If happily, as is observed by Dr. Beddoes, our regret should recall the age of chivalry, to break the spell of fashion would be an atchievement worthy the most gallant of our future knights. A Lecture on the Preservation of Health
Joan united ‘to her maidenly virtues the martial courage and ardor of the noblest knights of chivalry,’ the author argued.
The legend of king arthur represent the apotheosis of chivalry.
In the later “Gespräch über die Poesie” (1800), however, the term assumed again its concrete historical meaning: Shakespeare is characterized as laying the foundation of romantic drama and the romantic is found also in Cervantes, in Italian poetry, “in the age of chivalry, love, and fairy tales, whence the thing and the word are de - rived.” ROMANTICISM IN LITERATURE
Yet in spite of the fanatical beliefs of both sides, there were examples of restraint and even of chivalry in the Crusades.
This Courtly Poetry came out of the idea of chivalry and courtly love that you might associate with knights in shining armor.
Holly Combe examines the hidden motives behind the calls for a return to chivalry.
The Middle Ages were also the great age of chivalry.
Little Trunk wanted to thank Hugh for his unforgotten chivalry toward her.
La, Sir Percy, your chivalry misguides you," said Marguerite, coquettishly, "you forget that you yourself have imported one bundle of goods from France. The Scarlet Pimpernel
The three core images of Chivalry novel are respectively chivalry, sword and the secret society.
Chivalry is defined as a combination of qualities including courage, honour, courtesy and a readiness to help the weak.
It speaks of jousts, tournaments, wizards, falconry, enchantresses, damsels in distress, wars, quests, and the code of chivalry.
Assuredly the Dean has a purse, and a tolerably well-filled one; and, assuredly, the Archbishop, on departing from an inn, not only settles his reckoning, but leaves something handsome for the servants, and does not say that he is forbidden by the gospel to pay for what he has eaten, or the trouble he has given, as a certain Spanish cavalier said he was forbidden by the statutes of chivalry. The Romany Rye
He seemed, if not a figure of chivalry, the perfect gentleman, with a full head of silver-streaked hair, not quite as leonine as the mane on tonight's Lohengrin but wholly admirable.
In their great pride and self-will, they always sought to press in the advance and take the post of danger, trying to outvie our Spanish chivalry. Washington Irving
WHO said chivalry is dead? The Sun
The full flowering of the ideals of knighthood and chivalry is found in poetry in the high Middle Ages.
I have no desire to magnify the service I render thee in making thee acquainted with so renowned and honoured a knight, but I do desire thy thanks for the acquaintance thou wilt make with the famous Sancho Panza, his squire, in whom, to my thinking, I have given thee condensed all the squirely drolleries that are scattered through the swarm of the vain books of chivalry. Don Quixote
Yeoman of the Guard since bluff King Henry's time, and expected to hear something from you about the Field of the Cloth of Gold, -- and I thought of asking you the colour of Anne Bullen's breastknot, which cost the Pope three kingdoms; but I am afraid you are but a novice in such recollections of love and chivalry. Peveril of the Peak
They existed as unsung heroes, their deeds of chivalry no more than whispers and rumours among the populace.
To re-establish chivalry the king resorted to nobiliary archetypes from the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, and placed himself as a mirror for the nobility to imitate.
There is now a thriving black market in armorial bearings and medieval chivalry.
Incredible as it may seem to readers of the historian, the poeticule has actually contrived so far to transfigure by dint of disfiguring him that this most noble and pathetic scene in all the annals of chivalry, when passed through the alembic of his incompetence, appears in a garb of transforming verse under a guise at once weak and wordy, coarse and unchivalrous. A Study of Shakespeare
Yes, knighthood is absurd: and chivalry an idiotic superstition: and Sir Walter Manny was a zany: and Nelson, with his flaming stars and cordons, splendent upon a day of battle, was a madman: and Roundabout Papers
Both Julie and Marie seemed to revel in his old-fashioned chivalry. A RODENT OF DOUBT
This implicit parallel of clerkly and knightly service recalls the linking of clerkliness and chivalry in the notion of translatio studii et imperii.
A female, whatever her age or rank may be, is invariably treated with deferential respect; and if this deference may occasionally trespass upon the limits of absurdity, or if the extinct chivalry of the past ages of Europe meets with a partial revival upon the shores of America, this extreme is vastly preferable to the _brusquerie_, if not incivility, which ladies, as The Englishwoman in America
Malory was first and foremost a chronicler of secular chivalry, and his version of the Grail story brings out the tensions between the Grail's religious idealism and its context of knightly life and exploits.
In order to make the time pass pleasantly, and exactly in accordance with the tales of chivalry which Smith had read, the Turkish Bashaw in the fortress sent out his challenge: "That to delight the ladies, who did long to see some courtlike pastime, the Lord Tubashaw did defy any captaine that had the command of a company, who durst combat with him for his head. The Complete Project Gutenberg Writings of Charles Dudley Warner
He never started a fight, and he kept to the laws of chivalry, common thief though he was.
He was adored by his men, not least for his courage, chivalry and handsome appearance.
It's the dawning of the new millennium: magic, esotericism, chivalry and the divine are all blended together, expressing a disquieting but luminous desire for liberation.
It was what I suppose would be called a chivalric look; and yet chivalry was only an improved barbarism. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 12, No. 31, October, 1873
She firmly tells her audience that chivalry and courtliness are about real things, that hypocrites and coy flibbertigibbets are without honour.
The fact that you were a woman did not absolve you from keeping to the ideals of chivalry, in times of crisis and in your ordinary life.
This people -- I mean the more lofty-minded of these crusaders, who act up to the pretences of the doctrines which they call chivalry -- despise the thirst of gold, and gold itself, unless to hilt their swords, or to furnish forth some necessary expenses, as alike useless and contemptible. Waverley Novels — Volume 12

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