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chivalric
1. Don Quixote is the hero of a romance (1650-15) by Miguel de Cervantes, a satirical account of chivalric beliefs and conduct
2. He has his wits disordered by his devoted reading of chivalric romances and sets out in search of knightly adventures with his companion, Sancho Panza, whose short, fat appearance contrasts with that of Don Quixote
3. de Morcerf, who has given proof to-day of rare chivalric generosity
4. But the chivalric code would not permit the French nobility to hide behind low-born archers, and they broke the line to ride forth and engage with the English knights – thereby throwing away much of the benefit of their position
5. That evening he wore, like a chivalric badge of battle, a small red rose in his button-hole
6. It is faithful, brave, chivalric, loving, devoted
7. 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
8. “Excuse me, Nastasia Philipovna,” interrupted the general, with chivalric generosity
9. He considered himself not only un homme très comme il faut, but a man of chivalric honesty
10. So the chivalric Hunt need not fear being invoked from the silence of the grave to take part in a lively tournament for "belle et douce Marguerite
11. But chilled now is that heart of flame; stilled now are the mighty pulsations of that better than chivalric spirit, which up and down the land, all over the East and the West, during those fourteen years, did so much to educate the churches, and to remind the country of the "kindness and love of God our Saviour, which hath appeared toward man," and which ought with all possible celerity to be manifested by men, by men of all races and of all classes, toward one another, and to promote which this American Missionary Association finds supremely its reason to be