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How to use the word chivalrous in a Sentence?

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A love that lasts is a chivalrous kind, that is the hero through rain or shine and accepts when it has become ill and needs some love back.

– Heather Lydia Thornhill

added by heatherthornhill
2 years ago

The senator from South Carolina has read many books of chivalry, and believes himself a chivalrous knight, with sentiments of honor and courage. Of course he has chosen a mistress to whom he has made his vows, i mean the harlot Slavery.

– Charles Sumner

Found on CNN
6 years ago

There was something chivalrous about Joe Biden saying, you know, if Joe Biden said that and we were in high school I ’d take Joe Biden out back and I ’d kick Joe Biden butt, i thought, Joy Behar know, there’s something about that. Because Joe Biden was also speaking at an event where Joe Biden was encouraging men to stick up for women, not be just bystanders. So I don’t know.

– Sunny Hostin

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

As a bathtub lined with white porcelain, when the hot water gives out or goes tepid, so is the slow cooling of our chivalrous passion, o my much praised but-not-altogether-satisfactory lady.

– Ezra Pound

added by anonymous
11 years ago

Feminism was recognized by the average man as a conflict in which it was impossible for a man, as a chivalrous gentleman, as a respecter of the rights of little nations (like little Belgium), as a highly evolved citizen of a highly civilized community, to refuse the claim of this better half to self-determination.

– Wyndham Lewis

added by anonymous
11 years ago

You cannot have a proud and chivalrous spirit if your conduct is mean and paltry for whatever a man's actions are, such must be his spirit.

– Demosthenes

added by anonymous
14 years ago

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