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The choice was not altogether a happy one, for the Duke of Bejar might be said to have an ancestral claim to be regarded as a patron of books of chivalries.

From The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 10 by Rudd, John

Is it possible that there are knights-errant now in the world, and that there are histories printed of real chivalries?

From The History of Don Quixote de la Mancha by Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de

It was one of those fallacious chivalries of feeling which are the danger of sensitive and imaginative minds.

From Young Lives by Le Gallienne, Richard

He was very good as far as he went; and if you expect the chivalries of grace out of Nature, you "may expect," as old Fuller saith.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 46, August, 1861 by Various

Such chivalries, therefore, are now impossible; for myself I say, "Well, let them cease; thank God they once were, the Memory of that can never cease with us!"

From The Correspondence of Thomas Carlyle and Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1834-1872, Vol II. by Carlyle, Thomas