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Henry was in his twenties, was handsome and gallant and well-trained in the ways of chivalry.
The truth is, I don't get many opportunities to play the gallant knight for beauteous strangers.
Brechin stretched their lead at the top of the division with the narrowest of victories over a gallant Elgin City.
Tender and gallant, you've rescued these hapless insects from all sorts of scrapes and misadventures.
Kill maintained their unbeaten home record with an emphatic victory over a gallant Ballyteague.
In the distance, he could make out six people, five of which road common mustangs while the sixth rode on a gallant, black stallion.
Montrose was charming and gallant, a superb natural soldier with a rare ability to get the best out of his tiny army of ill-equipped Highlanders.
Reporter, Claire Moriarty, finds herself all at sea with words such as gallant, buntlines and spanker.
I remember crying in the back stalls when Storm Boy lost gallant Mr Percival.
An unheroic age could now escape to an alternative universe of gallant cavaliers and their trusted servants.
Our noble and gallant ship with her 15,000 yards of canvas and stunsails in addition is ploughing the main most majestically.
The sun burned through the haze of the spume filled sky as the gallant old hooker drove down each wave.
One gallant knight stands as the hope of the English people, Norman and Saxon alike, for justice and fairness.
In the early autumn fierce fighting took place, the gallant Serbians bearing a prominent part.
I would not wittingly have intruded my poor presence upon such a gallant company.
I was just getting ready to ask if I could join their gallant team, when the two remaining climbers showed up.
And I want the public to know, the national media to know that they have not been given the names of the gallant volunteers.
And in any case, our gallant troops will now be fully occupied in cleaning up the neighbourhood.
For this gallant lady, the future would not be altered with simply a healthy diet.
Still, I don't want to say a bad word about the gallant folk from the police service.
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The life of this wrecked if gallant woman has become, not the cautionary tale it was in 1970, but an achievement to applaud.
There was very little separating the players on the day, but it was young Larry who took the honours from a gallant loser Joe.
This was a game we should have won and the gallant loser badge doesn't lessen the pain.
He wondered how long he would have to continue playing gallant knight to these insipid, wilting females.
Before the time of greedy kings, gallant knights, and courtly love, there was a time when woodland creatures still roamed the earth.
Automatically Greg takes her hand, like the good gallant man he is, and draws her nearer as Jem walks stiffly away.
Pisces men are often seen as gallant and both sexes can be self-sacrificing often putting the needs of their lover ahead of their own.
A tour of the Hermitage today includes the thrilling rags-to-riches story of a gallant frontiersman, chivalrous romantic, and political reformer.
Though I'd like to think this gallant display was reserved especially for moi, it seems they give everybody the special treatment.
Hollander was reported as describing Bulgarian men as gallant, caring, and somehow mysterious.
But like many old-fashioned men, he takes a rather gallant approach to the women in his family.
But it was so gallant of him and showed me some kindness in him where I'd never seen it that I let him without protest.
Charles sighed in relief, and kissed Catherine in the most charming and gallant manner.
Some strange man, gallant and handsome, was tucking her into bed, with the help of another person, apparently female.
Then, you become even more gallant and chivalrous in order to appease them before they revolt.
In the past, great love affairs often began with the judicious dropping of a glove and its recovery by a charming gallant.
Even though you're not always the traditional swaggering gallant, your steadiness and planning make you a fine, reliable pirate.
Celebration time for the players in sky blue, dejection, utter dejection, for the gallant Gaeltacht.
The name Sir Walter Ralegh conjures up images of gallant Elizabethans and daredevil mariners in small boats defying hordes of Spaniards.
To consign to oblivion the memory of these gallant suffering few would be culpable injustice.
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Johnville will know as well as anyone that they are not out of the woods as yet, despite their gallant showing in Tramore last week.
Well done to the gallant band of Waterford men who gave such a lionhearted display of hurling on Sunday last in Thurles.
Kevin hopes to have the baby of the family, the gallant John Joe, groomed for the next event.
It's the older woman he has his eye on, having nursed a long and gallant tendresse for her all the while he's been away.
I liked the ballsy women and the gallant men, and their cheap-shot locker-room humour.
He was tall and gallant and quite the charmer, so it was no surprise when he and the town beauty announced that they planned to marry.
Also needed will be gallant troops to go and steal a whole bundle of MX's for the body formers and filler.
The gallant ten-year-old has more miles on the clock than an old banger, but he still has the engine and constitution of a Land Rover.
In actual fact, the Hutchinsons were the side of the family that invented the thumbscrew, while we ourselves are a particularly gallant and honourable lot.
Here he once again proved that he was a brave and gallant soldier.
Cora swung by them, dancing again with her lieutenant, and looking up trancedly into the gallant eyes of the triumphant and intoxicated young man.
He got married, had kids, left his job, survived a few more attacks, went gray, and no longer drove a gallant.
A group winner, playoff side, and gallant loser must be found.
The gallant understudy, who saved the company's bacon by taking over the role of Goneril, has been denied the reviews that might have done her career the world of good.
Bust times inevitably recall repressed myths of gallant cavalry laid low by Northern treachery and an economy ravaged by carpetbaggers and scalawags.
The boy, though, was an accessory the gallant could ill afford.
She scorns his gallant language, and constantly rebuffs his advances.
The room was very gallant with pale yellow walls and a pink ceiling.
She had always considered Adam's youngest brother a carefree gallant.
Congratulations to those gallant ladies who participated in the South Armagh Women's Group Sit-Out last Friday night proceeds in Aid of Newry Hospice.
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Blair, one of American anti-aircraft gunners involved in this amicide, recounted the dreadful realization of having wantonly, though inadvertently, slaughtering their own gallant buddies.
The gallant heroism of both the British Navy and the German Captain Langsdorff, who scuttles his own ship rather than face defeat, strongly appealed to Powell and Pressburger.
Otherwise she would have known that I was neither gallant nor gentlemanly.
Despite gallant efforts by its board, management and staff and good public support, the airport has never been able to get a reasonable period of stability to prove itself.
The games of love involve Florinda, who is destined to marry an old rich man or her brother's friend, and Belville, a young gallant who rescues her and wins her heart.
In all of the stories, he expunged crudities and added gallant prose.
He just made the gallant, grand decision to free up his day to spend more time with Jennifer Aniston.
However, they put up a gallant fight and were only 22-12 in arrears at half-time. That left Rib needing to score 52 points clear in the second period.
Always a gallant prince, he also dove voraciously into the tipsy comic lead in the creampuff farce, The Merry Widow.
A quidam gallant determined upon a time to surprise both my house and my selfe.
Ouija board is still on target for her swansong in the Hong Kong Vase on December 10 after her gallant run in the Japan Cup at the weekend.
They unmercifully bundled me and my gallant second into our own hackney coach.
The new French works taught a new, on the surface freer, gallant exchange between the sexes as the essence of life at the French court.
But habit had made the endurance of this load of panoply a second nature, both to the knight and his gallant charger.
Early every morning she made something she called coffee for George, and he was gallant enough not to undeceive her.
Those are gallant shoes, sir, if you'll excuse me being so pass-remarkable. Hand-made jobs.
This became possibly the most famous story about Sir Phillip, intended to illustrate his noble and gallant character.
Giving it to the 84-year-old Wajda is a move as gallant as it is shocking.
Certainly he was one of the most gallant and loveworthy persons we shall ever know.
Heat two also saw the two middle seeds qualify when Patsy Cusack's Clash Peggy made full use of a slick break to beat the gallant Gemara by a head.
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Him, for his exploits exc'ellent to reward, God gave in shortest space a gallant son, whose arm to 'noble and enfame was fain the warlike name of Lusitania's reign.
Public gratitude, therefore, stamps her seal upon it, and the meed should not be withheld which may here after operate as a stimulus to our gallant tars.
And he who were pleasantly disposed, could not well avoid to liken it to the exploit of that gallant man, who thought to pound up the crows by shutting his park gate.
Forget not the boys of Kilmichael, those brave lads so gallant and true.
The path that leads, where, hung sublime, And seen afar, youth's gallant trophies, bright In Fancy's rainbow ray, invite His wingy nerves to climb.
Runner-up Midas Touch ran a stout race for the Ballydoyle team, but was no match for the winner, while the gallant Corsica was another nose adrift.
As gallant as Van Helsing facing down Count Dracula, the Yaris and Y the latter-day ghost-busters found the village rich in other-worldly atmosphere beneath a full moon.
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But, as she still retained her glum expression, My-Boots again did the gallant.
No more should the gallant beast he had bred be seized with contumely in the market-place.
In the rope-walks of the town, the cordage for the gallant Yankee ships was spun.
For some weeks this gallant son of the morning had been tormented by neuralgia.
By this gallant officer Lord spoonbill was now accompanied to Smatterton castle.
In fact, it was a part of the gallant fellow's coxcombry to play the Englishman.
Will you ask your honourable and gallant friend, the Captain, to drive home Mr. squinny to Brompton?
The gallant regulars resisted with the staunchness of their professional esprit, and refused to yield an inch.
Sometimes called Colonel Chestertons everlasting staircase, from the gallant inventor or improver.
They were of a very various kind, and no bad epitome of the mind of a gallant and crackbrained coxcomb.
At once the gallant private put down his burden, bandaged stirk, and helped him into safety.
It is droll to look back upon the movement which led public opinion to prefer a stockjobber to a gallant soldier.
Then at last it was farewell to the gallant old indianian and her ornate, dignified prestige.
The Count Elian, and the commanders of the legions who had conducted the gallant defence, were barbarously crucified.
He ought to get no more by it, than a poor silk-weaver does by the ribband which he works, to make a gallant fine.
A wild uproar filled the rho dining-room when the gallant came in to dinner, late.
One would not detract an iota from the achievements of these gallant adventurers.
So far had I noted when the left rod, upon which the fly had been replaced by a sand eel, strained for a gallant run.
I descended from my rhadamanthine seat and reflected that the betrayal of Blanquette's confidence would not be a gallant action.
Of the fifteen hundred gallant cavaliers who had ridden that morning from the camp at jowly, they were the only survivors.
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The maid turned back into the house and betook herself to bed, whilst the lady said to her gallant, 'Well, how sayst thou?
All honor to this chivalrous and gallant Pennsylvanian, for his courtesy and humanity.
The gallant fellow managed to crawl to the group of castaways in the donga.
To-day I saw Col. Bartow, who has the bearing and eye of a gallant officer.
The request was granted, and the Arctic, under command of the same gallant Lieutenant Berryman, was assigned to this service.
Her husband was captain of the maintop, and as gallant and fine a seaman as ever stepped.
The 'Oregon' was abeam of the 'Colon' then, and the gallant Don gave it up.
Very gallant escorts use a towrope when accompanying a lady on a wheeling spin.
Trewey is nowhere as an equilibrist, compared to a gallant veteran who breakfasted at my table, this morning.
He made his gallant, bromidic speeches to each one in turn, playing no favorites.
One turco, more gallant than his fellows, refused to leave the line and joined the 16th Battalion.
There is no ascription of Spanish to Dauphine, who is a typical London gallant.
The miller watched and saw the gallant on the other side of the morelle, stretched out upon the grass and feigning to be asleep.
The scene of this gallant exploit was on the classic battle-field of Cannae.
One case is recalled of the spoiled body servant of a gallant Carolinian, one of General Wheeler's brigade commanders.
We were hardly on our way yesterday, from Agawam, when a dashing young gallant rode up very fast behind us.
Prince Charles himself fired the first shot at Vidin, and his gallant troops followed him on to victory.
Whilst the young gallant conducted her in the waltz, and her ear drank in the music of his voice and words, a passing bell tolled.
The gallant gunners, linstock in hand, watched by the guns loaded with bags of bullets and with chain shot.
The gallant Captain Loch expired on board the Phlegethon about forty hours after he had received his wound.
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Capt. Piercy, after a long and gallant defence, was in the end obliged to strike to the Pallas.
We often wish that some gallant, useful man, who is dying of a chronical disease, might yet live longer.
The gallant traitor did not linger for the governor's catchpoll to seize him.
When anear they saw him coming, the gallant Campeador, With great worship to receive him, forth unto him they ride.
The exquisitely shaped silver model is a dashing and gallant foe, worthy of the finest steel tempered at Kendal or redditch.
Our first pull-up was by a little potato-field, memorable as the spot where the gallant Wolfe fell.
In another year he would doubtless lose all his gawkiness and become quite a gallant.
One was tall, gallant, high-strung, and the lines of his pallid face showed terrible passions or frightful griefs.
The gallant fellow's stomach, too, was qualmish and disturbed.
I have told you that the Manxman is not built by nature for a gallant.
The gallant eighty-eighth will never mistake their countryman's voice.
However, he was very gallant, and we were soon on our way to ancon.
Men of prudence and discretion, Courtiers gay and gallant knights, With the wanton damsels dally, But the modest take to wife.
To us only remained the barren boast of Bradstreet's gallant victory.
Here fell the gallant Captain Cailloux, black as the ace of spades.
I was not afraid of the shabby coat, and had no yearnings after gallant greys.
The latter was by far the most showy and gallant figure, so far as apparel went, anywhere to be seen among the multitude.
But take it away, and all appropriation ceases, and a very pretty gallant charade remains, fit for any collection.
He wore no mask, saying it was not proper for a gallant corsican.
The gallant Lafayette was already fighting for our freedom by the side of Washington.
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He doated on the diverse aspect of the gallant woman of the world.
In fresh myrtle my blade I'll entwine, Like Harmodius, the gallant and good, When he made at the tutelar shrine A libation of Tyranny's blood.
I am sure East London will be prouder than ever of her gallant sons.
The poor Chevalier de Valois retained from his former life the need of bestowing gallant protection, a quality of the seigneurs of other days.
She is seated on sheaves of wheat and crowned with a gallant garland of wheat ears interlaced with salsify and other flowers.
George's, where the troops should fire a salvo over his grave, and where many a gallant officer lies far away from his home.
She noted his fearless poise, and she saw the gallant spirit in his eye.
While from its margin, terrible to tell, Three sailors with their gallant boatswain fell.
Why shouldn't a footballer look gallant and present trophies?
Such were the marauders of whose offences the gallant White Plume made the most bitter complaint.
Mortimer's gallant act had roused the Irishman's admiration.
At this period the gallant O'Neill was in great uncertainty.
But they are gallant men and while life lasts they will not be denied.
In fact, a gold medal was voted to the gallant captain by Congress.
The Great Lie by Myrrha Stanford-Smith 'Careful, signore, my gallant Gallio will call you out.
And with a simper I left my gallant and dapper cavalier to pay the bill.
The prince, spurring his gallant steed, pushed on in eager pursuit.
And his gallant answer was interrupted by some inanity from Herr von Mark.
Thus spoke and acted the gallant knights of the time of Charlemagne, in whom every cavalier ought to seek his model.
Fact is, gallant little Wales was swamped by irruptive Ireland.
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It seemed that he had made a gallant spurt into the road, and there paid the penalty of his rashness by a sudden incapacity to move another inch.
Diana's husband is a captain in the navy, a gallant officer and a good man.
Such was the end of the kappa, and my gallant friend, Commander Stephan.
In both The Tain and in Deirdre we find the love of fighting, the brave joy of the strong man when he finds a gallant foe.
Around us the dead and dying lay in heaped-up masses, and of the gallant Greys there remained but ninety-five men upon their feet.
With the tale of the gallant Lincoln men and the fight at lundy's Lane.
Besides, was not Townshend and his gallant force in danger in Kut?
Mr. Edmunds looked at her admiringly, and then made a gallant bow.
Know ye, tromp, or does Juliana know, who this one-eyed gallant is?
He addressed some gallant words to Judithe, and then turned to Monroe.
It was for this that Green and mouton and other gallant spirits fell!
But the heroine came too late, and the gallant mouton expired.
Our captain stood upon the deck, A spy-glass in his hand, A viewing of those gallant whales That blew at every strand.
Among the peris of his earthly paradise he was passionate and gallant.
They seem very gallant ships, and I trust that we shall have much pleasance from our meeting with them.
Then came the gallant rescue, which almost cost him his life, of three drowning tailors whose boat had upset in the sea near Heligoland.
The gallant old gentleman started as if I had given him an electric shock.
D'Artagnan was profuse in gallant speeches and protestations of devotion.
Your most usual point of perch is the head of the t' gallant-mast, where you stand upon two thin parallel sticks called the t' gallant cross-trees.
Bonacieux, the respectable martyr of the political and amorous intrigues which entangled themselves so nicely together at this gallant and chivalric period.
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But in one of the handsomest of the Chevaliers I felt sure I recognized the stranger who helped us at the Sainte Chapelle, and was so gallant with you.
When the buddies return to HQ to face the music, ladies' man FDR decides to lighten the mood by helping shy and gallant Tuck dip his toes back into the dating pool.
Gunny especially pointed out one young Zulu Induna with a plume head dress, telling me that he was a very gallant man, and had headed a charge three times.
The knight agreed to try, and got on slowly but surely, for the colt was a gallant fellow, and soon learned to love his new master, though he was freakish and wild.
