It conveys a certain amount of chivalrousness and respect for the lady that you are talking to. ❋ Unknown (2010)
Some bit of ingrained chivalrousness or paternal instinct to protect the womenfolk - even if we're not so inclined - I suppose. ❋ Icanreadyourmnd (2002)
This awakened both Ulli's chivalrousness and his sympathy; he wanted to rescue me from the clutches of the devil by spiriting me away. ❋ Unknown (2003)
She was more than content with Cora's abandonment of him, though, as chivalrousness was not demanded of her, she would have preferred that he should have been the jilt. ❋ Unknown (1912)
To a rare simplicity of manner he added a chivalrousness of spirit that was almost an inspiration to those who were brought into contact with him. ❋ Reid, Stuart J (1905)
But, fed or hungry, refreshed or thirsty, the men blessed the donors, and that reverently, with a purity of thought, a chivalrousness of regard, a shade of feeling, youthful and sweet and yet virile enough, which went with the Confederate soldier into the service and abode to the end. ❋ Mary Johnston (1903)
The latter course might have been most deadly of all, had it not been tempered with a certain chivalrousness which abode in Mary Ellen's heart. ❋ Emerson Hough (1890)
His love, his forbearance, his chivalrousness had been in vain. ❋ Egerton Castle (1889)
I don't understand why you have so sudden taken a personal interest in chivalrousness and murder. ❋ O. Henry (1886)
His natural chivalrousness, his keen perception of injustice, a certain elevation of mind which debarred him from taking the stereotyped English official view of the intricate Irish problem; an independence of vulgar motives which made him prone to see two sides of ❋ Emily Lawless (1879)
"I thank you, sir, for your chivalrousness in turning a defenseless woman into ridicule." ❋ Bret Harte (1869)
An impulse to fall on Alvan's breast and bless him for his chivalrousness had to be kept under lest she should wreck the thing she praised. ❋ George Meredith (1868)
People mythologize place by (a) assigning some kind of abstraction [ex: virtue, nostalgia, chivalrousness, level of 'hickness' ❋ Unknown (2010)
CNN) [Robert] Pattinson [, Edward in the film based on Twilight,] believes that it is Edward's gentlemanliness that compares him to the likes of classic characters Heathcliff and Mr. Darcy, and that these men are so well responded to because of their chivalrousness-not to mention dashing good looks. ❋ Unknown (2008)
