The virtue of prosperity, is temperance; the virtue of adversity, is fortitude; which in morals is the more heroical virtue.
And it was only the heroical sense of duty that sustained Sir Anthony Fenimore that day.
Then she sprang to her feet and drew herself up and snapped her fingers in an heroical way.
Virtuous Petion sees himself a kind of martyr, or pseudo-martyr, threatened with several things; drawls out due heroical lamentation; to which Patriot Paris and Patriot Legislative duly respond.
The firmness of his behaviour, his singular modesty and heroical patience, are mentioned with admiration by Le Clede.
The voyage of Gama has been called merely a coasting one, and therefore regarded as much less dangerous and heroical than that of Columbus, or of Magalhaens.
Since, then, marriage is the last and best cure of heroical love, all doubts are cured and impediments removed; God send us all good wives!
As there be divers causes of this heroical love, so there be many good remedies, among which good counsel and persuasion are of great moment, especially if it proceed from a wise, fatherly, discreet person.
Besides the Writers I have mention'd, there are many others of an heroical Genius, tho' they never wrote an Heroic Poem.
For there is a Sort of majestic and heroical Humility; and tho' Kings and Queens don't express their Grief in pompous and sonorous Words, yet there is some Difference betwixt theirs, and vulgar Sorrows.
Incomprehensible is the height of your spirit both in heroical resolution and matters of conceit.
That is the true and heroical rest, which only is worthy of gentlemen and sons of God.
And if I have forgotten, madam, in praising her to praise him also, have I not done that which would have best pleased his heroical and chivalrous spirit?
Had Shakespeare lived in a later and less emotional, less heroical period of our history, he might have turned to the painting of manners as well as humanity.
His Englands Heroical Epistles generally liked and received, entituling him unto the appellation of the English Ovid.
He was Accounted one of the exactest of Heroical Poets either of the Ancients or Moderns, either of our own or what ever other Nation else; having a Judicious command of Style both in Prose and Verse.
Our burghers met them with heroical courage, and quit themselves well in the close fighting upon the wall.
At our first coming to the camp, when the cookmen fled, the little Burgomaster was like to split with his heroical valiance and untameable fury.
The perseverance in attachment, the spirit of gallantry and generosity displayed in it, has no parallel in the history of heroical sacrifices.
The two last are as heroical and spirited as the others are full of luscious tenderness.
The three first Bookes done into English Heroical Verse (1480).
Thus, also, he tried his skill in a species of poetry which was then very much the order of the day,--the comic heroical poem.
No knight among all that band of warriors and martyrs, as I am myself a witness, did more brave and heroical actions throughout the black and bloody siege, than my lord and kinsman, Calavar.
He was a voluminous author, having produced, besides many original pieces, a translation of Ovid's Heroical Epistles, from which Warton has selected a short specimen.
She really had the heroicalaspect in a grandiose-grotesque, fitted to some lines of Ariosto.
Love pressed its claim on heroical generosity, and instantly it suffused her, as an earth under flush of sky.
I said something heroical to him about the creatures of the old legends.
If you think that the kiss exchanged between Andrew and Elodie had any such immediate sentimental or tragical or heroical consequences you are mistaken.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "heroical" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
