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gallant
«A wet sheet and a flowing sea, / A wind that follows fast / And fills the white and rustling sail / And bends the gallant mast.»
«That food has always been, and will continue to be, the basis for one of our greater snobbism does not explain the fact that the attitude toward the food choice of others is becoming more and more heatedly exclusive until it may well turn into one of those forms of bigotry against which gallant little committees are constantly planning campaigns in the cause of justice and decency.»
Author: Cornelia Otis Skinner
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campaigns, decency, exclusive, gallant, heatedly, well-turned
«For a gallant spirit there can never be defeat.»
Author: Wallis Simpson, Duchess of Windsor
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gallant
«I have nothing against the Queen of England. Even in my heart I never resented her for not being Jackie Kennedy. She is, to my mind, a very gallant lady, victimized by whoever it is who designs the tops of her uniforms.»
Author: Leonard Cohen
(Novelist, Poet, Singer, Song Writer)
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designs, gallant, Jackie, Kennedy, Queen of, Queen of England, resented, the Queen, tops, uniforms, victimized, victimizing
«Remember that whatever may be said by a lady or her friends, it is not part of conduct of a gallant or generous man to take up arms against a woman.»
Author: Sam Houston
(General, Lawyer, Politician)
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Men and Women
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Against A, gallant, generous, lady friend, take up, take up arms
«In gallant trim the gilded vessel goes, / Youth on the prow, and Pleasure at the helm; / Regardless of the sweeping whirlwind's sway, / That, hushed in grim repose, expects his evening prey.»
«Honor, justice, and humanity, forbid us tamely to surrender that freedom which we received from our gallant ancestors, and which our innocent posterity have a right to receive from us»
«O Romeo, Romeo, brave Mercutio is dead! That gallant spirit hath aspired the clouds which too untimely here did scorn the earth.»
Author: William Shakespeare
(Dramatist, Playwright, Poet)
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aspired, gallant, Romeo, untimely
«Why, you may take the most gallant sailor, the most intrepid airman or the most audacious soldier, put them at a table together - what do you get? The sum of their fears»
Author: Winston Churchill
(Author, Orator, Prime Minister)
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airman, gallant, intrepid, sailor, soldier, sum