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This can only be ascribed to the polish of chivalrous manners, and to the influence of feminine delicacy on public taste.
On the field of battle he possessed the rare gift of inspiring his soldiers with his own impetuous and chivalrous courage.
Fortunately he belied in his life almost all of his pulpit crimes and moved about, a tender, chivalrous, lovable old gentleman.
Anybody could see what was obligatory on the representative of Arthur; he was bound to be chivalrous, that is, to be European.
The pale earnest faces of the horsemen are eminently chivalrous, with knightly honor written on their calm and fearless features.
I exclaimed, for even though he were a thief he possessed certain good qualities, and was always chivalrous where women were concerned.
In short, I have undertaken, impulsively, a piece of chivalrous work, and you know that one should guard against yielding to impulses.
The chivalrous Thanes, noblemen and men of property, fought on horseback, and armed and mounted a portion of their retainers.
I found you polite, chivalrous, charitable, with a heart open to every cry of distress, a hand ever ready to proffer assistance.
Blithe, cheerful souls they were, telling racy stories of Western life, chivalrous in their manners, and free as the winds.
For several moments I was engaged in a struggle more sincere than chivalrous on my part and ardently demonstrative on hers.
The schoolmaster, however, suggested a train of thought upon which Neal now fastened with all the ardor of a chivalrous temperament.
No chaperon was thought of in the freedom of the frontier, and, indeed, none was needed among the innately chivalrous Westerners.
This conception of a dualism of human life, a serene, sunny side, and a cold twilight pervades the entire chivalrous poetry.
He was full of talent, high-spirited, generous and chivalrous in his temper, conscientious and blameless in his religious and moral conduct.
The perception of great problems, noble thoughts, seemed in these reminiscences to have fallen on chivalrous minds with a deep natural joy.
Fitzgerald with chivalrous recklessness refused to desert others who could not escape, and whom he had himself led into danger.
This chivalrous and beautiful idea, given here so imperfectly from memory, brought the great assembly to its feet in rounds of cheers.
And when compliant men have said this, they consider themselves magnanimous and chivalrous, and think the whole question happily settled.
Enthusiastic, chivalrous, bigoted, and, if not insane, not far removed from insanity, he was the very prototype of the time.
What one of them was so essentially chivalrous as the Western man; so modest, so self-sacrificing, so brave and resolute and resourceful?
The order, a memorial of the chivalrous past, was a source of still more satisfaction to the baron than he cared to avow.
This chivalrous and graceful synonym for courtship in itself speaks volumes for the serious nature of the risk which he runs.
And here, like two chivalrous knights, at the request of a distressed damsel, they had pledged themselves to help the lovers!
"They shall be treated with all chivalrous deference and honor; ye will be answerable for them on your honor and fealty."
The splendid festivities and tournaments which were the delight of the chivalrous king, were now in preparation to celebrate the event.
General Jackson, in his report, deplored the loss of "a brave and accomplished officer, full of heroic sentiment and chivalrous honor."
The intermediate ground apparently remained uncultivated, except during the brief period of chivalrous poetry, and then only in the highest classes.
Read the decisions of the Courts of Love, which governed the actions of chivalrous knighthood when chivalry was at its zenith.
The stranger, released from his chivalrous police duties, rubbed his shoulder ruefully, and identified himself as Harry Rogers, a civil engineer.
It was a generous and chivalrous action, for by thus encouraging the candidacy of Lincoln he was endangering his own election.
Iglesias was not without a quiet sense of humor, or of that instinct of self-protection common to even the most chivalrous of mankind.
This lion-hearted queen encouraged a taste for chivalrous displays, and took almost as much delight in such exhibitions as her stalwart sire.
Three sons were born to them, who grew in time to be handsome and chivalrous lads, of noble bearing and knightly disposition.
He was not chivalrous; if she had pleased his fancy he would quite surely have pursued her as relentlessly as the steward.
Both the boys were attracted, and began immediately, in the true Southern chivalrous style, to make themselves agreeable to the "likely gal."
Lancelot, as we have seen, is practically a French creation, adopted to illustrate the chivalrous theory of love, with its bitter fruit.
To several, the Reformation seemed to present something of a chivalrous character, which fascinated them, and bore them along in its train.
These chivalrous sentiments towards Prince Maurice had not however prevented Verdugo from doing his best to assassinate Count Lewis William.
In this account, royal leaders, chivalrous knights, single-handed conflicts, and romantic assaults make warfare seem like a carnival instead of a tragedy.
A knight true to these duties was called "chivalrous," a word which means very much what we mean by the word "gentlemanly."
Joanna enters to offer the Prince her thanks for his chivalrous defense of her fair name, and dismisses the other courtiers.
He was a great poacher of deer, brave, chivalrous, generous, full of fun, and absolutely without respect for law and order.
In any case, her wrath at his scarcely chivalrous desertion of her in the house of a stranger would, he knew, be terrible.
Single combat is the truly chivalrous exercise; and this also, as in the old chivalry time, may be combined with horsemanship.
The field for romantic adventure which these unexplored realms presented could not, however, long escape the eye of that chivalrous age.
The hero is a magnificent specimen of humanity, and sympathetic readers will be fascinated by his chivalrous wooing of the beautiful American countess.
The only thing that surprised her was Llewellyn's thorough unselfishness, and chivalrous devotion to a child who was nothing to him.
Others of the party, seeing they were likely to lose at least one of their most chivalrous braves, interposed to stay the conflict.
He is shifty, erratic, void of chivalrous feeling; and if familiarity be permitted with the common-class native, he is liable to presume upon it.
Narcissa, to show her gratitude, sprung on to the shoulder of her chivalrous deliverer, and snorted from there at her dead enemy.
I firmly believe that all his life he acted only from feelings of philanthropy and from patriotism of the most chivalrous type.
He was the identical chivalrous young American or Englishman who strides through his pages in battalions to romantic death or romantic marriage.
He was talking to Harry, to Algernon, to everybody except the two who, Hester felt, wanted the succor of a chivalrous sympathy.
It was to the newly liberated women of the chivalrous age that all instinctively turned for the realization of the universal longing.
Wilhelm von Humboldt has observed that at this time chivalrous love was kept alive by customs which, to us, are intensely repellent.
It is said that he robbed the rich, but gave largely to the poor, and protected women and children with chivalrous magnanimity.
He hated himself for the part he had played, and cursed the sordid ambition which thus unjustly humiliated so chivalrous a gentleman.
Hone, the gentle, the kind, the chivalrous, stepped suddenly forth from his garden of virtues with level lance to meet her.
Paul was naturally of a frank chivalrous disposition, but these good qualities shrivelled up in the glow of ambition, fanned by his teachers.
I believe that he carried out his possibly chivalrous but certainly unwise purpose, and no doubt he got a snubbing for his pains.
What I feel towards our common exalted mistress is only admiration and chivalrous respect, which neither love nor hate shall deprive me of.
We had certainly shewn rather a chivalrous leniency to their government, in thus so suddenly restoring to them one of their principal strongholds.
Such barbarities were common at executions in the days of the Norman kings, who have been described by modern writers as chivalrous monarchs.
He admired her chivalrous and hospitable customs, and above all that frankness which forms the chief trait of the Polish character.
Those who are acquainted with that chivalrous family may judge of the disappointment endured by a Napier arriving too late for a battle!
His character was in conformity with his person, for to the most chivalrous bravery he added the most feminine amiability and mildness.
This would have been very spirited and chivalrous, no doubt, but unfortunately, the obstacles that opposed themselves to this plan were legion.
He was loyal to the crown according to his lights, and showed a chivalrous self-denial that had hardly been expected from him.
The mornings were spent in chivalrous games, the prize of which was a golden lion, and the evenings in banquets and festivities.
George of the modern world, with his chivalrous lance run through his writhing foe, he, too, sheds his blessing upon that train.
Neither Mike nor the doctor laughed, restrained from doing so by a chivalrous sympathy, for Hoke could not wholly hide his chagrin.
Harding did not lack chivalrous support from some of her neighbors, who loudly declared that no lone woman should be trampled upon.
The least dishonest thought or action was, according to her doctrine, sufficient to forfeit the chivalrous lover the favors of his lady.
In likening myself to Cervantes' mad hero my purpose is quite other than to push myself within the charmed circle of the chivalrous.
He was an amorous and a chivalrous prince, and, having lost his first wife, he got him a second after a knightly fashion.
She was of rather a romantic turn, and about him there was a dash of the chivalrous, well calculated to captivate her imagination.
Another woman sprang forward and picked it up, with a chivalrous air, as if rescuing a human being from an oncoming express train.
The Senator from South Carolina has read many books of chivalry, and believes himself a chivalrous knight, with sentiments of honor and courage.
He knew that Dunham had never gone so far; that his chivalrous pleasure in her society might continue for years free from flirtation.
It was now the rutting season; and these chivalrous bucks were engaged in desperate combat about some fair doe, as is their yearly habit.
Perhaps the more demure village maidens who met them felt that there was something dashing and even chivalrous about these young squires.
"Yes, I know him, and I consider him one of the most charming men I have ever met, a perfect cavalier and chivalrous gentleman."
The devotion to woman which we find becoming the dominant feature of the chivalrous ideal rises at times to sheer extravagance, mere moonshine madness.
The dukes hated the king, and the king, who was jealous of Erik's popularity and eminence in chivalrous accomplishments, reciprocated their feelings.
Faust and his vassals offer Helen the most chivalrous and exaggerated homage; they introduce her, as a play queen, into their society.
It was not in the heart of a chivalrous knight like Richard, to look unmoved upon the destruction of his brave and gallant foes.
No family could have a more vigorous or chivalrous defender than he, or one who repelled with greater scorn any rumor to their discredit.
All historians have noted that feudalism produced increased respect, affection, and chivalrous regard for woman, and made man more resolute and energetic.
The count and his knightly companions were wont to pursue their chivalrous sports on the green meadows which stretch beneath the castle.
"No, no," Lady Vera says, hastily, as he crosses to the door, her haughtiness melting for the moment under his chivalrous manner.
By his counsel the industrious, cultivated and chivalrous Moors, the most useful of all her subjects, were driven from their native soil.
His personal bravery was chivalrous even to rashness, and he more than once abandoned himself to this impulse in a manner painful to contemplate.
In the affair which had inflicted on him a calumny so odious, it was clear that he had acted with chivalrous delicacy of honor.
We know that he could be chivalrous toward women, notwithstanding the perplexities he brought on them, and this the Dorset-Diary does not show.
And she had found him, her knight, noble, handsome, surrounded with the glamour of strange and thrilling circumstances, chivalrous and devoted.
Many years later he still writes of her with chivalrous affection, so, like Scott, he had his heart broken and cleverly pieced again.
In Phil's immediate vicinity a number of young men, lost in admiration of her temerity, and not without chivalrous instincts, jeered the orator's reply.
He knew well the plucky, chivalrous nature of the young engineer, and not unnaturally feared that he would expose himself too much to danger.
She was soon to be married, and in her satirical gray eyes I saw a desire to hold me permanently in a condition of chivalrous abnegation.