1. a gallant warrior
2. put up a gallant resistance to the attackers
1. "Honor without sense is … foolishness. A gallant foolishness, but foolishness nonetheless."
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Diana Gabaldon, Dragonfly in Amber
2. "And, to our bitter grief, with a smile and in silence, he died, a gallant gentleman."
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Bram Stoker, Dracula
3. "On the walk, like shredded lovely flesh, were the petals of the last gallant rose."
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Sinclair Lewis, Babbitt
4. "May, and after a rainy spring We walk streets gallant with rhododendrons."
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Alicia Suskin Ostriker, The Crack In Everything
5. "I write every day," Mavis Gallant said. "It is not a burden. It is the way I live." The late Mavis Gallant told the Paris Review that writing is like "a love affair: the beginning is the best part."
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Quote by Mavis Gallant
6. "We meet as mortal enemies hereafter - let us, like gallant gentlemen, exchange polite attentions in the meantime."
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Wilkie Collins, The Woman in White
7. "He was so far from the gallant knights in her romantic fantasies...He was tarnished, scarred, imperfect."
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Quote by Lisa Kleypas
8. "He was a bad son, a bad husband and a bad king, but a gallant and splendid soldier."
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John Man, Saladin: The Sultan Who Vanquished the Crusaders and Built an Islamic Empire
9. "All cities are mad: but the madness is gallant. All cities are beautiful, but the beauty is grim."
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Quote by Christopher Morley
10. "He would never be able to emulate Richard's last gesture of defiance--gallant, glorious, and quite mad."
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Sharon Kay Penman, Lionheart