chivalry

• All the old fellows in the Ages of Chivalry, that she talks of, did that sort of thing all day long, so why should she blame in a poor beggar of a Bengali what she would pass over in a baron bold Her age of chivalry is about as near the truth as the idyllic pictures of blameless Hindus that they hold up in Parliament, I fancy. —  The Path to Honour
• After having lost the flower of their chivalry, the Christians retreated upon their baggage, when a dreadful slaughter took place. —  Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds
• His joy was extreme on the arrival of Philip with all his chivalry, and he only awaited the coming of Coeur de Lion to make one last decisive attack upon the town. —  Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds
• It is true that with the fall of chivalry, as an institution, fell the tournament and the encounter in the lists; but the duel, their offspring, has survived to this day, defying the efforts of sages and philosophers to eradicate it. —  Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds
• I knew that if she'd written out her thesis and sent it me by post I should have made short work of it; and again the part of me which I called by all the finest names: my chivalry, my unselfishness, my superior masculine experience, cried out with one voice: 'You can't let a woman use her graces to her own undoing--you can't, for her own sake, let her eyes convince you when her reasons don't And then, abruptly, and for the first time, a doubt entered me: a doubt of her perfect moral honesty. —  The Long Run 1916

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