The country had before this learned the value of Brown's heroic character.
Homer employed it when he wished his heroic verse to reach the great body of his countrymen.
Again: a common objection to the peace propaganda is that without war we shall have none of the heroicvirtues that war calls into being.
Zoe laughed faintly at Betty's jest; then, with a heroic effort, put on an air of cheerfulness, and contributed her full quota to the sprightly chat on the homeward walk.
No matter what Feathertop said, his words found depth and reverberation in her ear; no matter what he did, his action was heroic to her eye.
But when they are at the stake, Venus makes their bodies invulnerable, and inspires Florio's companions to heroic deeds.
Farther west, the great Place de la Concorde is surrounded by handsome pavilions and balustrades, with eight stately, seated female figures of heroic size typifying the principal cities of France.
With heroic fortitude, often with marvellous enterprise, they pierced our wilderness while still there were but Indian trails to connect far-distant villages of semi-naked aborigines.
With Harold there fell his two brothers Gyrth and Leofwine, his uncle Aelfwig, most of the thegnhood of Wessex, and the whole of his heroic band of house-carles.
Their chiefs went out to war in chariots drawn by small shaggy horses, but alighted, like the ancient Greeks of the Heroic Age, when the hand-to-hand fighting began.
The clergy looked upon him as their knight and champion, and were only too ready to make capital out of his troubles and heroic end.
With two or three Europeans only to aid him, and no troops but the cowed and dispirited Egyptians, who had been driven into Khartoum from their other posts in the lost provinces, Gordon made a heroic defence.
A continual attention to history, accompanied with the cultivation of moral discernment, and animated with the examples of heroic virtue, could not fail to form the heart of the pupil, to all that is excellent.
It is admitted on all hands that he showed more of uneasiness and anxiety than accords with the notion of a heroic character.
Their heroic leader traversed the country with them for some time unbroken, and sustained a variety of assaults, from far superior numbers, with the most obstinate resolution.
Some of the heroic leaders of the Poles, in the struggles for their expiring independence, had long been exiles in France--not a few of them had taken service in her armies.
Austria, however, having enough of work at home, could not afford to sustain the efforts of these heroic peasants by any detachment of regular troops.
Georges and eighteen more were condemned to death; and he, and eleven besides, suffered the penalty with heroic firmness.
The Turks also were constantly sallying out, and their Pacha personally set the example of the most heroic resolution.
Buonaparte did not renew the attack in that quarter, but succeeded in breaking the wall in another part of the town; and the heroic Lannes headed a French party who actually entered Acre at that opening.
Napoleon, to the end of his life, remembered and regretted this heroic friend.
The modern cheap and fertile press, with all its translations, has done little to bring us nearer to the heroic writers of antiquity.
If the enterprise were as heroic and commanding as it is protracted and unwearied!
Gregory's saintly and heroic reply displays the pure motives by which he was animated in excommunicating the king, and which continued to govern his conduct throughout the contest.
The partisans of the heroic princess took little notice of the nameless knight who came among them without follower or page, and whose shield was simply blazoned with an azure cross.
Hitherto, the Romans, encouraged by the Pope, had made anheroic resistance, and the besiegers had suffered incredibly from their desperate sallies, as well as from the diseases that decimated them.
The unbought grace of life, the cheap defence of nations, the nurse of manly sentiment and heroic enterprise is gone!
Never was there exhibited in the history of the world, higher examples of noble daring, dreadful suffering, and heroic endurance, than by the Whigs of Carolina during that Revolution.
Who that reads the concentrated sense and melodious versification of Dryden and Pope, does not perceive in them the disciples of the old school, whose genius was inflamed by the heroic verse, the terse satire, and the playful wit of antiquity?
In her memorable address to the army, when the invasion of her kingdom was threatened by Spain, this woman of heroicspirit disdained to speak to them of their ease and their commerce, and their wealth and their safety.
Are they dead that yet move upon society, and inspire the people with nobler motives and moreheroic patriotism?
The literature of Greece, which goes up like incense from that land of temples and heroic deeds, has not half the influence of this Book from a nation alike despised in ancient and modern times.
On the world scene: You'll be glad to hear that the survivors of the wrecked strato-rocket have all been rescued from the top of Mount Everest, after a difficult and heroic effort by the Royal Nepalese Air Force.
Because of the heroicsize of the bottles, the pictured bottle on the label bore a bottle bearing a label bearing a bottle bearing a bottle on a label.
With a courage which may be said to be heroic had he accepted each successive stroke, and had immediately applied himself to the task of repairing the breach.
The warfare was not by any means of a heroic nature.
Mingled with these qualities, indeed, we have seen sparkles of the chivalrous and romantic temper which belongs to the heroic age of Spain.
This was the last act of the heroic monarch; doubtless, the most impolitic of his whole life.
The death of Manco Inca, as he was commonly called, is an event not to be silently passed over in Peruvian history; for he was the last of his race that may be said to have been animated by the heroic spirit of the ancient Incas.
Cuzco commenced; a siege memorable as calling out the most heroic displays of Indian and European valor, and bringing the two races in deadlier conflict with each other than had yet occurred in the conquest of Peru.
He reminded them of the glory they would for ever acquire by their heroic achievement, when they should reach their own country.
High heroic action, in the Indian, is the result of personal education in endurance, supported by pride of character; and if he can ever be said to rejoice in suffering, it is in the spirit of a taunt to his enemy.
He soon evinced the sagacity, cunning, perseverance, and heroic courage which constitute the admiration of the Indians.
As soon as the Taoist priest saw his radiant and heroic countenance he was disconcerted, and greeted him with a low bow, saying: "The game is up!
And when he looked at her, and considered her courageous behavior and her sensible words, he realized that she was a girl of heroic cast, and they agreed to marry and make their escape from the city in secret.
Anacreon complains that when they asked him to sing of heroic deeds, he could only sing of love.
To this age belongs the heroic period of the Van Arteveldes at Ghent, when the burghers became the real rulers of Flanders, as will be more fully described hereafter.
The Castle, which is now in course of partial restoration, is closely bound up with the greatness of Van Artevelde and the heroic period in the history of Ghent.
The long and heroiccontest of the Southern Provinces (Belgium) against the Spanish oppressor was not equally successful.
