Cavalier

(noun.) a royalist supporter of Charles I during the English Civil War.

(noun.) a gallant or courtly gentleman.

(adj.) given to haughty disregard of others .

整理:塞丽娜

• Sounding Mr. Cruncher, and finding him of her opinion, Miss Pross resorted to the Good Republican Brutus of Antiquity, attended by her cavalier. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 双城记.
• I don't know whether you observed it, Watson, but the Colonel's manner has been just a trifle cavalier to me. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯回忆录.
• Miss Lavvy came out to open the gate, waited on by that attentive cavalier and friend of the family, Mr George Sampson. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• Tippins, letting down the window, playfully extols the vigilance of her cavalier in being in waiting there to hand her out. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• The little one--he of Nunnely; the cavalier of the Misses Sykes, with the whole six of whom he is in love, ha! 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• While the Moors governed there, and the Spanish mixed with them, a Spanish cavalier, in a sudden quarrel, slew a young Moorish gentleman, and fled. 本杰明·富兰克林. 富兰克林自传.
• A cavalier, mounted on a large steed, might be about ninety feet high. 乔纳森·斯威夫特. 格列佛游记.
• Get up, and don't be a goose, Jo, was the cavalier reply to her petition. 路易莎·梅·奥尔科特. 小妇人.
• Seest thou not yon cavalier who cometh toward us on a dapple-gray steed, and weareth a golden helmet? 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• From Marston Moor to Naseby these men swept the Cavaliers before them. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.

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