The peasantry have lost the proper feeling for these rites, and have grown almost as strange to them as the boom of La Mancha were to the customs of chivalry, in the days of the valorous Don Quixote.
"Bracebridge Hall, or The Humorists"
Washington Irving
Finally it grew to be such a pest that the ladies in the neighborhood asked the Home Guard to take action in the matter, and after some delay it became known that this valorous body was going to invade Holetown and capture the deserters or drive them away.
"Two Little Confederates"
Thomas Nelson Page
To her it was a valorous deed, and she rehearsed her view of it all the way home.
"The Mermaid of Druid Lake and Other Stories"
Charles Weathers Bump