Chivalric

The slaveholders ... had begun to boast that northerners and New Englanders were congenitally soft and altogether lacking in "chivalric" and soldierly qualities. ❋ Unknown (2005)

Not only had the slaveholders perpetrated the preponderance of atrocities, and with impunity at that, but they had begun to boast that northerners and New Englanders were congenitally soft and altogether lacking in "chivalric" and soldierly qualities. ❋ Unknown (2005)

But there was a certain chivalric thrill of warm blood in him, despite his Yankee ancestry and New England upbringing, and he was so made that the commercial aspect of life often seemed meaningless and bore contradiction to his deeper impulses. ❋ Unknown (2010)

To appease the tribal gods, Sipsu, the chief's daughter, is chosen to be sacrificed and while three of the four men chose not to interfere, one of them, named Hitchcock ( "there was a certain chivalric thrill of warm blood in him, despite his Yankee ancestry and New England upbringing"), determines that he will not to let Sipsu die. ❋ Unknown (2008)

But there was a certain chivalric thrill of warm blood in him, despite his Yankee ancestry and New ❋ Unknown (1901)

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. ❋ Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell (1837)

It was what I suppose would be called a chivalric look; and yet chivalry was only an improved barbarism. ❋ Various (N/A)

Mr. Pneumonia was not what you would call a chivalric old gentleman. ❋ O. Henry (1886)

Page 287 provoked Simon Burney to wrath; there was something astir within him that in a worthier subject might have been called a chivalric thrill, and it forbade him to hold his peace. ❋ Pseud. Charles Egbert Craddock (1885)

But there is more of this 'chivalric' spirit in the same article. ❋ Various (N/A)

The following specimen of "chivalric" literature is copied from the ❋ Alf Burnett (N/A)

But it is time that our halls of legislation were thoroughly purified, now that 'chivalric' brigandage and the Southern system of personal retaliation no longer prevail. ❋ Various (N/A)

This American was just the kind of chivalric fool to accept a challenge. ❋ Harold MacGrath (1901)

North; precepts which impressed upon them the duty of manliness and honor in all the relations and exigencies of life; not the "chivalric" prate of their enemies, but the calm steadfastness which endureth to the end. ❋ John McElroy (1887)

How the "chivalric" mind can endure the loss of such gratifications it is difficult to conceive. ❋ Sarah Hopkins (1869)

So-called "chivalric" gestures, come they from men to women, or vice-versa are ultimately valuable in the spirit in which they're given. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Play 58 galore age right chivalric for the occasio. ❋ Unknown (2010)