cavalier

• He cantered forward God give you joy, fair sir," said Richard, when the cavalier was at his elbow The new-comer raised his visor. —  Chivalry
• Assuredly the Dean has a purse, and a tolerably well-filled one; and, assuredly, the Archbishop, on departing from an inn, not only settles his reckoning, but leaves something handsome for the servants, and does not say that he is forbidden by the gospel to pay for what he has eaten, or the trouble he has given, as a certain Spanish cavalier said he was forbidden by the statutes of chivalry. —  The Romany Rye a sequel to "Lavengro"
• He hunted in his character of gallant cavalier, and always wore a sword. —  Heroes of Modern Europe
• A wounded cavalier, accompanied by one of his retainers, also wounded, is being forced along on foot, evidently to imprisonment, by one of Cromwell's Ironsides and a long-faced, high-hatted Puritan cavalry-man, both on horseback, and a third on foot, with musquetoon on shoulder. —  The Continental Monthly, Vol. 2, No 3, September, 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy.
• Before Charlie came it had been his privilege to be Miss Bellairs's cavalier, and although he never hoped, nor, to tell the truth, desired more than a temporary favor in her eyes, he did not quite like being ousted Pretty good for a fellow who's just had the bag!" —  Comedies of Courtship

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