To him, albeit he would have been puzzled had anyone told him so, war existed as yet only as a spiritual conflict in which men proved themselves heroes or cowards: and he meant to be a hero.
Beneath these battlements, within those walls Power dwelt amidst her passions; in proud state Each robber chief upheld his armed halls, Doing his evil will, nor less elate Than mightier heroes of a longer date.
The ships of the Vikings would go out and raid the ships and seaports of other peoples, and carry off booty and captives, and the men who did that were sung as heroes of the nation.
If they do, they write the histories of the revolt, and their leaders become heroes and statesmen.
Men become women while they weep-- "Or start up heroes from the glorious strain.
Young heroes prematurely old in baffled passions--life's best and strongest passions, that scorned to go to sleep but in the sleep of death.
Men, as men go, are the materials of which heroes are made; and recruits in three years ripen into veterans.
Then, composing himself into a solemn attitude, modelled on theheroes of classical antiquity, he takes a high moral tone.
He pulls himself piously together, and says, like a man conducting a religious service) I am only the servant of the French republic, following humbly in the footsteps of the heroes of classical antiquity.
There was one gigantic Russian who stood towering above his fellows with clubbed rifle, furiously knocking down all who came within his reach, like Horatius or one of the other heroes of ancient Rome.
We turn now to a battlefield, but we won't affect to believe that the reader does not know who is one of the chief heroes of that field.
The truth is that poets and heroes make the scenery.
The pioneers--the home builders, the heroes of toil, are all poets, and their deeds are filled with the pathos and perfection of the highest art.
The heroes of the Revolution, forgetting the justice for which they fought, put chains upon the limbs of others, and in their names the lovers of liberty were denounced as ingrates and traitors.
I look, and from the ashes, blood and tears the heroes leap to bless the future and avenge the past.
They are the heroes who have slain the monsters of ignorance and fear, who have outgazed the Gorgon and driven the cruel gods from their thrones.
Guynemer and Fonck are perhaps the two greatest names on the French roll of heroes of the air.
The men who, in the first frail monoplanes and biplanes attempted to fly the British Channel, or to make dangerous cross-country flights under adverse weather conditions were heroes indeed.
Yet undoubtedly the greatest exploits will be told of those heroes who, in the Great War, flew daily over the lines, meeting the aviators of the enemy in mortal combat.
Then, if he is of the stuff that heroes are made of, perhaps he may distinguish himself by his daring accomplishments in the air.
When theheroes of comedies and novels do not adopt resolutions, it makes him desperate.
You are called one of theheroes of the revolution.
The Sikh war added another long list, in which Aliwal and Sobraon heroes figure conspicuously, as did also the Maharatta war.
Playwrights do not write for ideal actors when their livelihood is at stake: if they did, they would write parts for heroes with twenty arms like an Indian god.
They were not a large body, they were not pressed for time, nor were they the heroesof many wars.
Then, formalities over, as boys are pretty much alike the world round, Rafael was soon pouring forth eager questions, and our heroes were reliving the events of the past weeks.
Needless to say, our heroes went to bed at an early hour.
They complimented the adventurers in a curious mixture of stately Spanish and eager youthfulness, and their admiration was so apparent that our heroes would have doubled the dangers of the past on the spot.
Of the manner in which heroes were adopted as founders, the city just mentioned furnishes a good instance.
Doric heroes is connected with the taking of Ephyra; who, though out of the confines of history, are nevertheless to be considered as real individuals.
And it is evident that the chariots and darts of the Homeric heroes could never have prevailed against the charge of a deep and compact body armed with long lances.
In the second place, the fabulous history of these heroes also concerns the worship of Apollo, in so far as the origin of the Pythian Theorias is contained in it.
Afterwards the same hero celebrates the first Olympiad as a festival of all Peloponnesus, with various combats, in which heroes from Tiryns, Tegea, Mantinea, and Sparta were victorious.
Probably the heroes of Iolcus and the Phthiotans were also introduced as allies of the Lapithae, and at least the adventures of Phrixus and Achilles.
It was almost twelve o'clock when the Famous Fiction dance came to a triumphant end, and the illustrious book heroes and heroines wended their midnight way toward their various houses and boarding places.
These and other condemnations are passed by Plato upon the current histories respecting Gods, and respecting heroes the sons or immediate descendants of Gods.
No terrible descriptions of Hades must be presented to them: no intense sorrow, nor violent nor sensual passion, must be recounted either of Gods or Heroes 25 Type for all narratives respecting men 26 Style of narratives.
We must also prohibit the representations of intense grief and distress, imputed by Homer to Heroes or Gods, to Achilles, Priam, or Zeus, for the death of friends and relatives.
It has been said, that romance-writers give away so much of their hearts to heroes or heroines of their own creation, that they leave nothing worth the giving to human beings like themselves.
Being, however, one of those gallant heroes of womankind who do not give in at the first defeat, she began to doubt whether Frank had not rather overstrained the delicacy which he said he had put into his "soundings.
I am not certain whether he did not join our band of heroes later on.
The feats of these heroes of Alsatia have been sung and their valour vaunted in the ballads of all lands and ages; indeed they have formed no inconsiderable portion of the material.
My mind was stored, my imagination fired, besides, with tales of equestrian feats, performed chiefly by Arab chiefs and other heroes of old-world romance.
No poet and no scholar who knew Homer's heroes in Homer's Greek, could thus degrade them; and the whole of the revilings of Thersites are loathsome in their profusion of filthy thoughts.
Wagner makes a composition of tones portray the attributes of heroesand gods.
These mythical beings are neither heroes nor caricatures, nor are they supposed at all to portray the qualities typical of the population they represent.
The nine-and-twenty shields of the Scottish heroes were less independent, and hardly more potent to withstand any attack that might be made on them.
The sorrows of our heroes and heroines, they are you delight, oh public!
Gordon was a hero, and a hero of heroes; but we ought to have known that a hero of heroes is not the proper person to give effect at a distant point, and in most difficult circumstances, to the views of ordinary men.
These reproachful ironies of Lord Hartington boded ill for any prospect of the heroes of this fratricidal war of the platform smoothing their wrinkled fronts in a liberal cabinet.
May love and friendship crown our cheer Wi' a' the joys to curlers dear; We hae this nicht some heroes here, We aye are blythe to see, boys.
Lady Mary, the mighty M'Donald, Will lead his brave heroes to battle no more.
Heroes brave, be ever ready, At your king and country's call; When your dauntless chiefs shall lead you, Let the foe that dares you fall.
The people of the land have made it a vast sanctuary, perfumed with prayer and filled with the memories of heroes of the faith.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "heroes" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
