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I'd resolved to keep mum, but suddenly the chance to play parfit gentil Flashy seemed sound policy.

Watershed 2010

Do not listen to it if you blow a gasket whenever somebody suggests that Obama is something less than the "parfit gentil knight".

Another GOP Oil-Drilling Myth Is Born! 2009

After Miers took herself out of consideration he proposed Alioto, not quite the Hollywood handsome, “parfit knight” like Roberts, but a committed antiabortionist who STILL upheld the law and refuse to rewrite it.

Think Progress » CNN’s Wolf Blitzer Calls Out Lynne Cheney For ‘Sniping At My Patriotism’ 2006

As long as I've been studying Old Geoff, I've been told that the parfit, gentil knyght was clearly "down on his luck."

A Verray Parfit, Gentil, (Desperately Poor? Greedy? Penitent?) Knyght Heo 2006

As long as I've been studying Old Geoff, I've been told that the parfit, gentil knyght was clearly "down on his luck."

Archive 2006-09-01 Heo 2006

I'd resolved to keep mum, but suddenly the chance to play parfit gentil Flashy seemed sound policy.

Flashman And The Tiger Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1999

Stevenson, who is as unremittingly whitewashed here as Johnson is tarred, would not seem so much the "parfit gentil knight" if it were known, ahead of time, that he was friendly to the Dixiecrats.

Monstre Désacré Wills, Garry 1990

_Het, _ an dwon't ye come anuost yer zister ta vessy wi 'er till you a got yer lessin moor parfit, or I'll gee zummet you on't ax me vor.

The Dialect of the West of England; Particularly Somersetshire James Jennings

Few of them, however, can hope to have their deeds commemorated by a "veray parfit, gentle knight" -- of the quill, not of the sword, albeit the letters which he writes after his name would once have indicated the possession of military rank and distinction.

Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 15, No. 85, January, 1875 Various

Sidney, that "verray parfit gentil knight," scholar, soldier, and statesman, if the unanimous appraisement of the best of his contemporaries is worth anything, wrote his _Defence of Poesie_, he had not indeed broken free from the trammels of academic theory; but it is a very often acute and always charming piece of critical work in scholarly and graceful language.

England under the Tudors