GALLANTRY in a Sentence

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38 example sentences for GALLANTRY, such as:

1. Yet he made polite replies and murmured the correct things about Ashley's gallantry.
2. I had a theoretical reverence and homage for beauty, elegance, gallantry, fascination.
3. He didn't even die in a fine glow of gallantry in battle, so she could brag about him.
4. If only he had the gallantry and ardor of the Tarleton boys or even the coarse impudence of Rhett Butler.

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 Meanings and Examples of GALLANTRY
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
gallantry
 n.  bravery
Classic Sentence: (37 in 3 pages)
1  So, from the cradle to the grave, women strove to make men pleased with themselves, and the satisfied men repaid lavishly with gallantry and adoration.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VIII
2  He didn't even die in a fine glow of gallantry in battle, so she could brag about him.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IX
3  But sooner or later, he returned to Atlanta, called, presumably on Aunt Pitty, and presented Scarlett, with overdone gallantry, a box of bonbons he had brought her from Nassau.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XII
4  Yet he made polite replies and murmured the correct things about Ashley's gallantry.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XII
5  War romances, war weddings, deaths in hospitals and on the field, incidents of camp and battle and march, gallantry, cowardice, humor, sadness, deprivation and hope.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVII
6  He wrote for three pages about the gallantry of the troops and then, at the end of his letter, mentioned briefly that Carreen was ill.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIX
7  He knew she had no such word in her vocabulary as gallantry, knew she would have stared blankly if he had told her she was the most gallant soul he had ever known.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXII
8  An ageless dignity, a timeless gallantry still clung about them and would cling until they died but they would carry undying bitterness to their graves, a bitterness too deep for words.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXV
9  If only he had the gallantry and ardor of the Tarleton boys or even the coarse impudence of Rhett Butler.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXV
10  She turned to give him the welcome which such gallantry deserved; but her greeting wavered into a blush of wonder, for the man who had approached her was Lawrence Selden.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 4
11  "Though you think it too soon to listen to the calls of humanity," he added, smiling archly, "I may be permitted to believe that gallantry is not forgotten by one so young as yourself."
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 15
12  Henrique, who valued himself on his gentlemanly adroitness in all matters of gallantry, soon had his fair cousin in the saddle, and, gathering the reins, placed them in her hands.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIII
13  Few augured the possibility that the encounter could terminate well for the Disinherited Knight, yet his courage and gallantry secured the general good wishes of the spectators.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VIII
14  Both displayed great feats of gallantry, nor did either Bois-Guilbert or the Disinherited Knight find in the ranks opposed to them a champion who could be termed their unquestioned match.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XII
15  He had been much in London, and had more liveliness and gallantry than Edmund, and must, therefore, be preferred; and, indeed, his being the eldest was another strong claim.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER V
Example Sentence:
1  I had a theoretical reverence and homage for beauty, elegance, gallantry, fascination.