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...noble self-abandon, his untutored emotion, overcame me. I could only gasp, "Don't squeeze my hand too hard, my gallant preserver. I am a simple, guileless maiden, and I cannot tell; but - papa wouldn't mind, I guess...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: DAISY SPRUCEWELL'S ROMANCE. | 11/12/1880 | See Source »

...love thee some day, gallant knight...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: RONDE. | 1/23/1880 | See Source »

Were the last words of gallant...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: POEMS BY EMINENT HANDS. | 11/21/1879 | See Source »

...that the Borsair is by no means easy to get along with. The next man was pitched out, and the third scraped the airy vault of heaven with what seemed to every one a home run; but little they recked of the noble L. F., the heroic Blister; this gallant man, with measured step and song, froze to the sphere with one hand while running backward, and the Hod-lifters retired with no runs...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE MATCH OF THE SEASON. | 10/24/1879 | See Source »

...they're off! Huzza! a brave start. With such science on board, they scarce can fail to reach the bottom safely. Alas! "the best-laid schemes of mice and men gang aft agley," and this party ganged the same way. An unfortunate rock intervenes, and they separate, - the gallant leader measured the shortest distance between the sled and a neighboring tree; the youthful prodigy described the arc of a great circle and landed in a snow-bank; the large gentleman remained stationary, remarking, " This rock shall fly from its firm base as soon as I"; the last, describing a parabolical...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE COAST OF THE SEASON. | 2/21/1879 | See Source »

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