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"She's noan hurt wi' good looks, our Bess," her father remarked with graceful chivalrousness on more than one occasion, "but hoo con heave a'most as much as I con, an' that's summat."

From "Seth" by Burnett, Frances Hodgson

To a rare simplicity of manner he added a chivalrousness of spirit that was almost an inspiration to those who were brought into contact with him.

From Memoirs of Sir Wemyss Reid 1842-1885 by Reid, Stuart J. (Stuart Johnson)

His love, his forbearance, his chivalrousness had been in vain.

From The Light of Scarthey by Castle, Egerton

What I am denying is that Americans have any greater reverence for women, any higher chivalrousness, than Englishmen.

From The Twentieth Century American Being a Comparative Study of the Peoples of the Two Great Anglo-Saxon Nations by Robinson, Harry Perry

No share in, or credit for, the result is to be assigned to any peculiar forethought, deference, or chivalrousness on the part of the men, their fellows in the fight.

From The Twentieth Century American Being a Comparative Study of the Peoples of the Two Great Anglo-Saxon Nations by Robinson, Harry Perry