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Example sentences for "courage and"

  • He wrote with the authority of courage and experience.

  • Thus he won over a handful of the Guard, and, begging for solitude, he straightway set about escape with a courage and an address which Jack Sheppard might have envied.

  • Without fumbling or failure he discovered the single craft for which fortune had framed him, and he pursued it with a courage and an industry which gave him not a kingdom, but fame and booty, exceeding even his greedy aspiration.

  • The Roman power has grown to its present height by courage and activity, and not by such dilatory measures as these, which the cowardly only designate as cautious.

  • Equalled to Fabius in command, he sees that Hannibal is superior to him in courage and in fortune.

  • My sword I give to him that shall succeed me in my pilgrimage, and my courage and skill to him that can get it.

  • And though many who have followed him have been his equals in courage and endurance, none have ever possessed the same combination of heroic and unselfish qualities.

  • The pioneers were simple people--the refinements of high cultivation had not yet penetrated the forests or crossed the prairies--and good faith and virtue were as common as courage and sagacity.

  • It is, moreover, an experiment of courage and patience.

  • When an expedition is undertaken by the Malay pirates, they range themselves under the banner of some piratical chief noted for his courage and conduct.

  • Still the young Scot's courage and presence of mind bore him out.

  • Upon the scaffold they appeared with a great deal of courage and serenity of mind, (as was usual with the martyrs in these times), and died in much peace and joy; even a joy that none of their persecutors could intermeddle with.

  • But what enhanced him more was courage and magnanimity of mind, which accompanied him upon every emergent occasion; and though his extraction was but mean, it might be truly said of him, That he lived a hero and died a martyr.

  • The two following anecdotes will show what an uncommon degree of courage and resolution he possessed.

  • He was always glad that he saw Pickett's charge, the charge that dimmed all other charges in history, the most magnificent proof of man's courage and ability to walk straight into the jaws of death.

  • Its commander had been unequal to the task, but the long roll of generals under him had shown unsurpassed courage and daring.

  • His pulses leaped once more with courage and resolve, and he plunged anew into the deep wood.

  • A Union such as ours has been formed amid so much suffering and hardship, courage and danger, that it is not to be broken in a day.

  • I know now the truth of what you told me, but, on the other hand, you of the North do not realize the fire, courage and devotion of the South.

  • In those days apathy and delay seemed to be characteristic of the North, courage and energy of the South.

  • And in considering Pope’s admirable career, I am forced into similitudes drawn from other courage and greatness, and into comparing him with those who achieved triumphs in actual war.

  • Bernard Shaw thinks that "the time has now come to pluck up courage and begin to talk and write soberly about the war.

  • The time has now come to pluck up courage and begin to talk and write soberly about the war.

  • After reflecting a short time, he plucked up courage and said "I will gladly accept the position of son-in-law you offer, and will try to show you that I am worthy of it.

  • Petru shuddered in every limb, and crossed himself twice, then he plucked up courage and began to fight as he had already fought once, and also as he had never yet fought before.

  • The morning light too brought an accession both of courage and hope.

  • He was a man of courage and address, lacking only principles.

  • He has written to one of his friends, in whom I have great confidence, a man of courage and devoted to us, an explanatory letter, which seems to me neither an explanation nor an excuse.

  • In justice to the Germans it must be said they were heroic in courage and reckless of their lives, and the valley of the Meuse was choked with their corpses.

  • At the same time I heard several spectators express their admiration of the German aviators' courage and appreciation of the ease and grace with which they handled their beautiful machines.

  • None understood better than he their skill, courage and perseverance, and the shadow in the north was very heavy and menacing to him too.

  • That alone was sufficient to give him a fresh store of courage and hope.

  • Civilization doesn't take anything from a man's courage and tenacity.


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