chivalrous

• “Louis Mountbatten, the Commander, ordered the enemy crew, who had all safely abandoned ship, to be brought on board in chivalrous recognition of their treatment of the foundered Greeks.”

  The Volokh Conspiracy » “Obama Effect” Spurs Record Number of Nobel Peace Prize Nominations

• “Are the odds so impossibly great that Ashley Todd just randomly played the card that got countless Black men lynched across this country on many times the mere word of a complainant, or ... the perception of someone standing in chivalrous stead for a complainant?”

  Miss Ashley and Her Chifferobe...Busted.

• “A favourite theme with the company was the want of soldiers or generals at the North, and the impossibility that a set of mechanics and tradesmen, who knew only how to make money and keep it, should be able in chivalrous and gentlemanly exercises to cope with the Southern cavaliers, who were accustomed to sword and pistol and the use of them from their youth up.”

  Daisy in the Field

• “Bena, being "chivalrous" -- ass-kissing, actually -- started in about how I shouldn't be acting "like this" and cursing in front of a "woman.”

  Thomas Paine's Corner

• “It has come to such a pass in this so-called chivalrous country that sensitive women will submit to almost any wrong rather than seek redress in our courts of law, where they are liable to be subjected to studied insult by unconscionable shysters.”

  The Complete Works of Brann the Iconoclast, Volume 10

• “Anybody could see what was obligatory on the representative of Arthur; he was bound to be chivalrous, that is, to be European.”

  The Crimes of England

• “He is showy in appearance, brave, daring, attentive to females, and, above all, chivalrous, that is, inclined to show disinterested courtesy to the weaker sex, as we have just seen.”

  Primitive Love and Love-Stories

• “He saw his way to do noble service in the cause of womanhood, and that by following the path of mere common sense -- all sentimental and so-called chivalrous humbug cast aside, all exaggerated new conceptions simply disregarded.”

  Our Friend the Charlatan

• “Susanna now again belonged to me in another, truer, and more real way than I had ever dreamt of or suspected, as I comprehended that everything that could be called chivalrous sacrifice on my side only lay lower than our love, was even simply an unworthy offence to it.”

  The Visionary Pictures From Nordland

• “It is not necessary to censure their lack of so-called chivalrous woman-worship.”

  Wine, Women, and Song Mediaeval Latin Students' songs; Now first translated into English verse

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