Sentence examples for chivalrous to from inspiring English sources

Chivalrous to the first, he assuaged his guilt through abstinence with the second.

In an act that seems chivalrous to her, she decides to let the maid go, but is too cowardly to do it in person.

Dexter is gentle and chivalrous to his putative girlfriend, Rita Julie Benzz), a single mother and former abused wife, who is too emotionally damaged to want sex; chastity suits Dexter just fine.

The only chinks in his armor are some features of partnering: Though he is chivalrous to his partners in manner, the shoulder lift in the Shades scene is uncomfortable for him (his Nikiya was Ms. Cojocaru) and some finger turns with Gamzatti (Isabella Boylston, replacing Natalia Osipova) inconvenient.

Nevertheless, just as it's chivalrous to give up your subway seat to a pregnant lady, I do hope that obese people offer their scooters to the Wal-Mart customers who literally have no legs.

As for happily ever after, if you weren't married off as a teenager to an elderly foreign king, you couldn't exactly count on a knight to be chivalrous or to rescue you and ride off into the sunset on horseback.

The doors close on him smiling with an air of grace under fire and he turns, with a chivalrous nod, to retreat to his office and more serious matters.

The debates about pelvic politics over the last week sometimes had a patronizing tone, as if birth control amounted to a chivalrous handout to women of dubious morals.

Be sure to include the fact that you are a gentleman, and that providing a shoulder to cry on was the chivalrous thing to do for a woman so obviously in distress.

For centuries, Robin Hood, the dashing, chivalrous hero to the oppressed, has been the property of Nottinghamshire in the Midlands -- land of Sherwood Forest, Nottingham Castle and one nefarious sheriff.

During his great tour of the United States, which is now nearing its end, the President's speeches have been invariably garnished with chivalrous references to the fair sex.