gallant

How To Use gallant In A Sentence

• For a week after the headlands of Tarifa and Spartel have sunk under the eastern horizon, the vessel is kept every day upon her course, -- her top-gallant and studding sails all distent with the wind blowing freely from over Biscay. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 104, June, 1866
• I teach young gentlemen the whole art of gallanting a fan.
• In the afternoon set the fore and main topgallant sails. 1pm set the mizzen topgallant sail and spanker.
• The topmast in turn supported the topgallant mast, which could be lowered and replaced, if necessary, even at sea.
• The flame was glorious - radiant with the colours of antique knighthood and the flashing gallantries of the past; but no substance fed it; flaring wildly, it tossed to and fro in the wind; it was suddenly put out.
• As she was starting to shiver, he gallantly wrapped his cloak around her shoulder.
• Then it was clewlines and buntlines and lowering of yards as the topgallant-sails were stripped off. CHAPTER XXIX
• They stood their ground while the king and his party made a gallant retreat. Somewhere East of Life
• MacGregor --- I carena wha kens it --- And Rob had soon a gallant band; and as it grieved him (he said) to see sic hership and waste and depredation to the south o 'the Hieland line, why, if ony heritor or farmer wad pay him four punds Scots out of each hundred punds of valued rent, whilk was doubtless a moderate consideration, Rob engaged to keep them scaithless; Rob Roy
• Even though you're not always the traditional swaggering gallant, your steadiness and planning make you a fine, reliable pirate.