Sentences with chivalrous
chiv·al·rous
C c - He was handsome, upright and chivalrous.
- It was a lovely afternoon, replete with blue sky, beaming sun, buzzing insects and what not, an afternoon that seemed to call to one to be out in the open with God's air playing on one's face and something cool in a glass at one's side, and here was I, just to oblige Bobbie Wickham, tooling along a corridor indoors on my way to search a comparative stranger's bedroom, this involving crawling on floors and routing under beds and probably getting covered with dust and fluff. The thought was a bitter one, and I don't suppose I have ever come closer to saying “Faugh!” It amazed me that I could have allowed myself to be let in for a binge of this description simply because a woman wished it. Too bally chivalrous for our own good, we Woosters, and always have been. [. . . ] Whether I would or would not at this juncture have taken her in an iron grasp and shaken her till she frothed is a point on which I can make no definite announcement. The chivalrous spirit of the Woosters would probably have restrained me, much as I resented that merry laughter, but as it happened the matter was not put to the test, for at this moment Jeeves entered [. . . ]
- I remember the Lone Avenger as chivalrous to women.
- Were they chivalrous and gallant caretakers of their peasants?
- Are they being chivalrous or stupid?
- He also enjoys creating the ornate armour he wears when fi ghting, and the chivalrous behaviour expected of the society's combatants.
- The mood shifts from reflective to playful as Madeleine Eastoe abandons her chivalrous partners, Andrew Killian and Matthew Donnelly.
- It used to be looked upon as a proverbial instrument connected with chivalrous courtship.