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  • I know that Mr Baker beat me hollow at expedition and galantry for Miss C had the song at the time of its publication, and very glad was I to hear it.

    Letter 234 2009

  • So how did you repay his galantry moves then, cuz he sure deserves some for those jet lee moves .... heheheheheh

    HE STOOD UP FOR ME 2008

  • Lt R M du Plooy, with the Silver Star for "galantry in action".

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1998

  • Lt R M du Plooy, with the Silver Star for "galantry in action".

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1997

  • It cannot be denied that romance and galantry must have been a rich feature in the life of many of our ancestors.

    Folk Songs of French Canada 1929

  • She lost all concern for him in finding herself thus selected as the object of such idle and frivolous galantry; and while she steadily repressed it, could not but feel the reproof contained in his believing that, however long and for whatever cause his attentions had been withdrawn, her vanity would be gratified, and her preference secured at any time, by their renewal.

    Chapter XLI 1917

  • The feat of Popham and of Grant was not only most gallant but of extraordinary service to the country; but the highest credit belongs to Nolan-Neylan, of the Police, for the great promptitude and galantry of his attack, and to McNeill for his support.

    The Great Boer War Arthur Conan Doyle 1894

  • He lifted his hat with respect, and not without galantry: stepping close to her hanging feet he said in a hesitating voice, --

    Far from the Madding Crowd 1874

  • The galantry and gratitude of the two high seas rescues stood in stark contrast to the ugly war of words escalating between Iran and the U.S.

    NYDN Rss HELEN KENNEDY 2012

  • DURING the reign of Henry the second of France, magnificence and galantry bore an equal sway.

    The Princess of Cleves. An Historical Novel Marie-Madeleine Pioche de La Vergne 1777

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