| This is no romantic and idealistic battle for higher principles, fought by a moral and ethical aristocratic elite according to chivalric rules. |
| But the elevated, even chivalric, tone in which it is being conducted scarcely even masks its onesided and ignoble purpose. |
| He had a taste for poetry and song, and he generally lived up to the chivalric code. |
| Frontiersmen are, I think, really spirits strayed out of chivalric ages into our century of all vulgarities. |
| They range from singingly chivalric to the unaffected generous, pleasurable additions to the lighter repertoire. |
| But clerical disapproval did not undermine the appeal of chivalric culture, with its glorification of courage, loyalty, and military ability. |
