chivalric

• These are the things for the people I was, I must confess, a decided partisan of the foundation in France of a new chivalric order, because I think, in every well-conducted State, the chief of the Government ought to do all in his power to stimulate the honour of the citizens, and to render them more sensible to honorary distinctions than to pecuniary advantages. —  The Memoirs of Napoleon, V6, 1803
• No one who knows will doubt that the recent events in which Norway has taken so chivalric, and at the same time so winning and gracious, an attitude in the eyes of the world, owe not a little to their being the work of a generation nurtured in that new temper of mind, that spiritel nuovo d'amore which was inculcated by the whole work of Ibsen —  Henrik Ibsen
• This American was just the kind of chivalric fool to accept a challenge. —  The Lure of the Mask
• But such an insulting message could not be delivered to the brave, chivalric, and freeborn sons of the Touarghee deserts; they would trample your letter under their feet, or spear it with their spears Mr. Gagliuffi and myself then went to see the troops exercised. —  Travels in the Great Desert of Sahara, in the Years of 1845 and 1846
• Unfortunately science is not chivalric, and divulges the unamiable and ungraceful truth, that perverted female natures from even the lower beastly types are more implacably vindictive, more subtly malicious, more ingeniously cruel than the stronger sex; and when a woman essays to track, to capture, or to punish--_vae victis Now, Biörn! —  Infelice

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