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  • Gallantry is adventurous courage, which courts danger with a high and cheerful spirit.

    Question?... 2009

  • Gallantry is adventurous courage, which courts danger with a high and cheerful spirit.

    Question?... 2009

  • Gallantry, which is the highest award given by the South Vietnamese government, among other citations.

    James L Moore 2010

  • 'Gallantry' and subjects generally not alluded to in polite society!

    The Book-Hunter at Home P. B. M. Allan

  • In the lecture on "Gallantry," Lola had a warm encomium for King

    The Magnificent Montez From Courtesan to Convert Horace Wyndham

  • "Gallantry"; splendour of appearance, grandeur, nobleness.

    Works of John Bunyan — Volume 02 John Bunyan 1658

  • If this kind of Gallantry were in vogue amongst us, I believe we should have fewer Drunkards than now there are, and by going out of this World by a Draught of Flame, they would be better prepar’d to drink of it for ever in the next.

    Archive 2005-07-01 Jenny Davidson 2005

  • If this kind of Gallantry were in vogue amongst us, I believe we should have fewer Drunkards than now there are, and by going out of this World by a Draught of Flame, they would be better prepar’d to drink of it for ever in the next.

    One of the great pleasures Jenny Davidson 2005

  • Pembroke) as a volume, neatly bound, of "The Whole Art of Dressing;" the next a miscellaneous work, with essays on "Gallantry;" the sixth, a folio collection of all the "Court Ballads."

    Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 62, No. 384, October 1847 Various

  • Kevin D. McCranie's "Utmost Gallantry: The U.S. and Royal Navies at Sea in the War of 1812" 2011 draws extensively on British archival sources to correct factual errors and nationalistic perspectives that mar previous accounts of individual sea engagements.

    The War Without a Loser John B. Hattendorf 2012

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