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  • More from TimesOnline Australia Praise Chivalrous England Over Ashes Gesture Phillip Hughes Refuses to be Bitter on Twitter How Girlfriend's Track Feats Kept Graham Manou in Ashes Running Swann was given just a couple of exploratory overs, but he might have had Shane Watson leg-before, sweeping, with his second ball and then did get Simon Katich, pulling but missing a straight ball, with his sixth.

    Aggressive Australia Put England on Back Foot 2009

  • One can see it in connection with the rise of the cult of the Virgin Mary, and Chivalrous medieval knights willing to defend the honor of the princess.

    Asianphiles and the Caucasian Male/Asian Female Relationship floreta 2009

  • Chivalrous type I am, I snap open the Zippo and ignite her burner.

    Occupational Hazards Jonathan Segura 2008

  • Chivalrous type I am, I snap open the Zippo and ignite her burner.

    Occupational Hazards Jonathan Segura 2008

  • “The romance of China has died away,” he wrote, “with the end of the Chivalrous Manchu dynasty.”

    The Romance of China: Excursions to China in U.S. Culture: 1776-1876 2005

  • Oddly, Rich Lowry's Chivalrous Code of Conduct for how a War Hero should be treated wasn't much in evidence when he penned this column back in July, 2004 -- entitled Max Cleland, Liberal Victim -- in which Lowry snidely dismissed complaints about how Cleland was treated during his election defeat with tough-guy, suck-it-up, politics-is-tough sermons like this:

    Archive 2006-05-01 Glenn Greenwald 2006

  • Oddly, Rich Lowry's Chivalrous Code of Conduct for how a War Hero should be treated wasn't much in evidence when he penned this column back in July, 2004 -- entitled Max Cleland, Liberal Victim -- in which Lowry snidely dismissed complaints about how Cleland was treated during his election defeat with tough-guy, suck-it-up, politics-is-tough sermons like this:

    Various items Glenn Greenwald 2006

  • Chivalrous scripts encourage males to court females by doing them favors, paying for dates/drinks, acting like their therapists, doing their homework, being nice to the point of obsequiousness, and in general giving any kind of unreciprocated positive treatment: supposedly if a woman is given enough of such treatment, she will go ka-ching!

    Continuing the debate over sexual attraction, gender roles and power 2005

  • Chivalrous feeling, disinterestedness, pride in honour, is too dead in their hearts.

    Shirley, by Charlotte Bronte 2004

  • Chivalrous enemies had buried him with honour, and there he rested.

    The Leper of Saint Giles Peters, Ellis, 1913- 1981

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