It was their circumlocution, their innuendo, their mild surprise, their perfunctory congratulations, their assumption of chivalry and their lack of its essence, that wounded and stung the subject of these effusions.
And I don't want to be discouraging, my dear fellow, but it is only honest to say that I think more of your chivalry than of your chances of success!
He had recognized her as the daughter of an adventuress, and not as his ward, appealing to his chivalry through her very ignorance--it might be her very childish vanity.
The laws of chivalry I have learned as the holy text; and I swear, by St. George and the Holy Virgin, that I shall maintain them while I live.
Whatever may have been his conduct in this affair, he now stands sheltered by the laws of chivalry and my protection.
At Scanderborg, the merry, lively heir-apparent was most happy when engaged in games of chivalry with his active squires and pages, among whom the little friendly Aage Jonsen was his dearest comrade.
He was of the same age as the prince, and daily shared with him his martial exercises, and the various instructions in chivalry under Drost Peter's guidance.
His notions of chivalry do not permit him to countenance the distribution of honours to men who only do what he considers to be their duty, and he does not approve of the Victoria Cross being given in cases of noblesse oblige.
I wish Wolseley would take up this line, and get some quixotic chivalry into us: that it is possible I feel sure, for we are the same men as before.
All Paris had poured out her inhabitants, to witness the combat, and they now crowded an upper island of the Seine, which the chivalry of the age had appropriated as a scene of games, tournaments, and duels.
The combat was denied me; my sword was broken before the assembled chivalry of France; my shield reversed; and sentence was passed that I should be burnt at a stake, and my ashes scattered to the four winds of heaven.
The Court ofChivalry satt, and fined Sir James Tilly L200 for his crime.
In his day chivalry had not yet become an absurdity.
It recognised neither the rights nor the interests of the people; and when once the people had grown strong enough to assert their rights, and make their importance felt, the doom of chivalry was sealed.
Such was the confidence inspired by chivalry in a man's word, that many were released on their promise of coming to Bordeaux before Christmas to pay their ransom.
On the other hand, the lords, owing to the increasing luxury of the time and to the expenses of chivalry and war, were continually in want of money.
But whilst extending the sympathy of a knight to all his companions in knighthood, whether friend or foe, chivalry narrowed his sympathy to those of his own class.
Characteristic of the spirit of chivalry is the great deference paid by the suitors to the lady herself.
Chivalry was a thing of French creation, and throve naturally on French soil.
It showed the powerlessness of chivalry before the strength of the people.
But on this one of the French knights spoke up, and bade him not be too confident; for with the Black Prince was the flower of chivalry of the whole world, all hardy and tough combatants, who would die rather than think of flying.
The beautiful side ofchivalry was quite lost to him.
It was to the Crusades thatchivalry owed its religious character.
Chivalry was then at its height, and it was necessary for every gentleman to be skilled in all knightly exercises.
The rules of chivalry were not concerned with the treatment which a peasant or burgher might receive from the hands of a knight.
This was what chivalry led to, and all its bright features cannot make us forgive its disregard of human suffering.
The bravery ofchivalry came to an end with the invention of powder, and the pride of race has faded for ever before the advent of trade.
That spirit of chivalry arose among the Spanish Arabs, which has since been appropriated by the warriors of the north, as though it were a special quality belonging to Christian people.
So saying, he closed his vizor and rode away to muster his chivalry to meet their new assailants the while Sir Benedict fell to re-forming his scanty ranks of pikemen and archers.
The count was an admirer of Spenser, and appeared to desire to embody the spirit of that poet of the ancient chivalry in the scene which he presented to the view of his illustrious guest when she entered his grounds.
Resistance was hopeless, but it was continued in the true fashion of chivalryuntil all the Scottish force was captured.
Henry's chivalry in refusing to fight his suzerain seemed to him the height of folly, and he protested loudly against it.
This chivalry indeed did not prevent the vassal from attacking some of his lord's castles in the north, but no important results were gained, and peace was soon made between them.
The generation to which William and Robert belonged was more strongly influenced in its standards of conduct by the ideals of chivalry than by any other ethical code, and both these princes are examples of the superior power of these ideals.
Henry could always be counted upon to respond in the spirit of chivalry to demands of this sort having in them something of an element of romance.
She was obviously bubbling over with talk relevant and irrelevant, but the Rector had the chivalry to check it by his cold silence.
Of this Jem had never found any confirmatory hint in Dora's letters, and from some mistaken sense of chivalry refrained from writing to ask her point-blank if it were true.
Dick's chivalrywas deep-grained, as it is in men who have lived among pure and simple women.
De Quincey says: "Within fifty years in three pitched battles that resounded to the ends of the earth, the chivalry of France had been exterminated.
Froissart paints the chivalry of his time in the brightest colours, and only here and there by a few touches lets us see what dark shadows set them off.
Even in chivalry itself our author is more knightly than Lancelot; for was there ever a more truly chivalrous performance than Mark Twain's essay on Harriet Shelley, or his literary monument to Joan of Arc?
Talk not old world nonsense," said Theurdank; "chivalry is in the heart, not in the weapon.
The chivalry of Don Ferdinand Morales was proved, yet more after marriage than before.
It was amongst all this blaze of chivalry that Arthur Stanley had had ample opportunity to raise, in his own person, the martial glory of his own still much loved and deeply regretted land.
That was the first article in the code of chivalry toward women which ruled these first Kentuckians, as it rules most brave, strong men living simple, strenuous lives in the open.
Not a cross," replied the knight, "for I never read in any history of chivalry that any knight-errant ever carried money about him.
He loved chivalry too well to be patient when he saw it parodied and burlesqued; and he perceived that the best way of preserving it from shame was, to throw over it the sanctity of death.
He has become a sort of symbol, even a sort of fetish, and he is to English sentiment what Charles Péguy is to France, an oriflamme of the chivalry of his country.
Watch ye, and behold the magnificent courage which in every land of strife is purging families from the dross of indolence and indifference, and educing the gold of chivalry and sacrifice.
Think what a sweet reward of chivalry it was to lick up the crumbs you threw me to ease your tormenting conscience.
Abominable as it was in Kophetua's eyes, still his perhaps fantastic sense of chivalry forbade him to expose her.
The word in the plural also signifies chivalry or knighthood.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "chivalry" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
