chivalric

For even the high lifted and chivalric Crusaders of old times were not content to traverse two thousand miles of land to fight for their holy sepulchre, without committing burglaries, picking pockets, and gaining other pious perquisites by the way.

de Morcerf, who has given proof to-day of rare chivalric generosity."

Bonacieux, the respectable martyr of the political and amorous intrigues which entangled themselves so nicely together at this gallant and chivalric period.

War calls upon a young king full of chivalric spirit.

Light and air contend with chivalric emulation for the love of the fair flower that bestowed her chief favors on the latter; full of longing she turned towards the light, and as soon as it vanished, rolled her tender leaves together and slept in the embraces of the air.

Mistrust Porthos, especially, who, to please the count whom he regards as God on earth, will assist him in contriving Mazarin's escape, if Mazarin has the wit to weep or play the chivalric."

No blade in Christendom wields such enchantment as this--no blade of all that rust in the ancestral halls of Europe is able to invoke such visions of romance in the brain of him who looks upon it--none that can prate of such chivalric deeds or tell such brave tales of the warrior days of old.

"Excuse me, Nastasia Philipovna," interrupted the general, with chivalric generosity.

It was only too evident that these creatures possessed no gentle or chivalric sentiments to which she could appeal, and that she might escape from the labyrinthine mazes of their underground burrows appeared impossible.

But it is a great mistake to suppose that such houses stand high in chivalric tradition.

The Chivalric and heroic spirit which once belonged to the Rider seems now to reside in, or perchance to have subsided into, the Walker--not the Knight, but Walker, Errant.

The ability and/or willingness to keep faith to one's given word may be, thus, seen as accorded the narrative function of a test of a character's compliance with the social policy and the structural system, inscribed in the existence of the chivalrous community and, hence, also as a signpost of this character's role in the fictional chivalric world.