1. "gallantry"
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Victor Hugo, Les Misérables
2. "Wine gave a sort of gallantry to their own failure."
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F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Beautiful and Damned
3. "Personally, I quite like that. Such stupid gallantry. Yes. I like that a lot."
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Markus Zusak, The Book Thief
4. "He had never known such gallantry as the gallantry of Scarlett O'Hara going forth to conquer the world in her mother's velvet curtains and the tail feathers of a rooster."
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Margaret Mitchell, Gone with the Wind
5. "I do not doubt he has a low opinion of women too. Gallantry is often a cloak for contempt."
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Elizabeth Peters, Seeing a Large Cat
6. "Alluding and attacking, summoning a courage, embodying a gallantry of defiance that hurt to see, it was so noble and so doomed."
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Guy Gavriel Kay, The Summer Tree
7. "He thought as he stared at Will in the shadowy hall that he had never known such gallantry as the gallantry of Scarlett O’Hara going forth to conquer the world in her mother’s velvet curtains and the tail feathers of a rooster."
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Margaret Mitchell, Gone With the Wind
8. "I don't want her to be like me. Give in, go along, save her skin. That is what it comes down to. I want gallantry from her, swashbuckling, heroism, single-handed combat. Something I lack."
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Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid's Tale
9. "When death captures me,' the boy vowed, 'he will feel my fist on his face.' Personally, I quite like that. Such stupid gallantry. Yes. I like that a lot."
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Markus Zusak, The Book Thief
10. "The lance or spear was the traditional weapon of the horseman, and it lingers to our own times as a symbol of the mounted knight. In 1939, the Polish cavalry, with ridiculous gallantry, carried lances into battle against German tanks."
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Morris Bishop, The Middle Ages