41 examples of ungallant in sentences

"Our friend, Marston, is privileged to be as ungallant as he pleases, except where he has the happy privilege to owe allegiance; but I, a gay young bachelor of fifty, am naturally curious.

" Bacon has been censured for this ungallant strategy; but it worked well and saved his workmen from further annoyance.

The confession is ungallant and painful, but it must be made.

He was not a philanderer, but he was young and she had made him feel that he had played an ungallant part.

" Amidst the chorus of protestations aroused by this ungallant speech Roy started the car.

" "We have our difficulties, as is the fact wherever man is found with his selfishness and passions Signor Bailiff; but are we not doing an ungallant act towards yonder fair bride, by giving the precedency to men of this cast?

dash'd they, every one; When these same belles began to dire, 'Twas well the workmen 'scaped alive: Brunel, indeed, who knew full well The nature of a diving bell, Remain'd some time, nor made wry faces, Within their aqueous embraces; Nay, fierce and ungallant, adventured To oust them by the breach they entered.

Yet it must not be supposed that Sir William Devereux was an ungallant man.

"Is this ruthless war making you navy men ungallant?" With a mock gesture of surrender, and as a matter of fact, not at all averse to pursuing the adventure further, Lieutenant Kramer permitted Jane to lead the way to the Strong apartment.

Minna became so jealous that she drove Wagner, usually so tender in his allusions to her, to use the expression of the ungallant Haydn, saying that, "she was making a hell out of the home."

He recognised many of his frequent visiters, and if any female among them was laid hold of, in his presence, he would bristle with rage, strike the bars of his cage with tremendous force, and violently gnash his teeth at the ungallant offender.

That was most ungallant.

"If I be not," was the quiet rejoinder of the ungallant Lothario, "it has at least, Madame, not been your fault."

I hope that I shall not be considered ungallant if I say nothing about the part borne in conversation by ladies.

And this is the paragon of beauty and grace whom her ungallant subjects chose to insult this morning!

"] Let us cry peace to her manes and then wander back to Mistress Oldfield, whom we have a very ungallant way of leaving from time to time.

It saved the day for me, but it seemed a bit ungallant.

The Gallant Rooster Ungallant Lower Races of Men Egyptian Love Arabian Love The Unchivalrous Greeks Ovid's Sham Gallantry Mediaeval and Modern Gallantry "An Insult to Woman," Summary A Sure Test of Love XI.

UNGALLANT LOWER RACES OF MEN If we now turn to human beings, we have to ascend many strata of civilization before we come across anything resembling the unselfish gallantry of the rooster.

The ungallant men not only compel the women to be their drudges, but slyly create a sentiment that it is disgraceful for a man to assist them.

The Laws of Manu are full of such precepts, most of them amazingly ungallant.

The horrible maltreatment of women in India, which it would be an unpardonable euphuism to call simply ungallant, will be dwelt on in a later chapter.

In defending his conduct the servant, in a most ungallant, unmanly, and cowardly way, tried to fasten the guilt on the widow by saying that she had previously allowed him to take some liberties with her.

Darkness coming on meanwhile, some unprincipled, ungallant thief stole it, and only bits of offal and almost uneatable pieces were left to sustain their lives.

"Nay, that's ungallant to our Maid-at-Arms," he stammered.

41 examples of  ungallant  in sentences