It is a more absurd one still that I could not listen to her unmoved, that her words touched me-how or why I could not have told-stirred up in me something of weakness, unselfishness, or chivalrousness-I know not what exactly-that prompted me for once to give up my own egotistical evanescent passions and act to Florelle as though all the males of her house were on earth to make me render account of my acts.
"Cecil Castlemaine's Gage, Lady Marabout's Troubles, and Other Stories"
Ouida
His love, his forbearance, his chivalrousness had been in vain.
"The Light of Scarthey"
Egerton Castle
She was more than content with Cora's abandonment of him, though, as chivalrousness was not demanded of her, she would have preferred that he should have been the jilt.
"The Flirt"
Booth Tarkington