He accompanied Onate on that long, desert march; and a few months later was at the storming of Acoma, and performed the astounding feat which ranks as one of the remarkable individual heroisms of the New World.
To record all the heroismsof the Spanish pioneers would fill, not this book, but a library.
Some of the most characteristic heroismsand hardships of the Pioneers in our domain cluster about the wondrous rock of Acoma, the strange sky-city of the Queres[10] Pueblos.
There are in them excellences and simple heroisms which make plain that Christianity is no artificial thing superimposed on human nature, but is the laying bare and setting free of its inmost native quality.
As an environment to the soul it is, for all the countervailing heroisms of men, a world of evil power let loose.
Its lofty spirit of submission and renunciation she admired; and she believed that altruism can be made real only through tradition, only as associated with pastheroisms and strivings and ideals.
He breathes this atmosphere of spiritual memories, he is fed on thoughts other men have made for his sustenance, he is inspired by the heroisms of ages gone before.
The socialists, in short, when dealing with military and other cognate heroisms, ignore both of the causes which alone make such heroisms possible.
I could fill a volume of this work with the heroisms of Festubert alone.
Humble as it was, the heroisms done on it have given it a fame that Mont Blanc might envy.
Millions of men, on a dozen different battle-fronts, have recently taught us the heroisms which make war almost as glorious as it is hideous.
I have contrasted the utter commonplaces of the obscure heroisms of daily life with the pomp and pageantry of martial life.
It became clear that I needed only to clear away the choking evil of self, in order to feel that I was a part of the tender and mighty Plan,--to touch the rhythm of the Source, from which all songs and heroisms and martyrdoms come.
Within the next ten years there will be heroisms before our eyes--heroisms such as seers and saints and sages have dreamed of as the consummation of the human heart.
It seems to me that the heroisms worth speaking of nowadays are active, not meditative.
If she had indeed felt some secret need to recover herself by reciting the heroisms of local history, she seemed to have succeeded.
These heroisms have I,--though rather shy of exhibiting them.
For it was the death of these men that brought home to the people the astonishing achievements and heroisms of Canadian chivalry on the frontiers.
And amidst it all we find the record of quiet heroisms as these Mounted Policemen who were not allowed to go to the Front pursued the steady round of their duty at home.
Just recall the heroisms which are happening every day in Europe, and on which the eyes of the world are riveted with an almost mesmerized wonder!
And again I ask, what incidents in carnal warfare are not eclipsed by shining heroisms like these?
Long enough, too, for the making of many books about it all, wherein has been recorded such heroisms as might make God proud and such horror as might make the Devil weep.
A new generation has always been found to talk of the heroisms that the divine in us can manifest in the mouth of hell and to forget that so great a miracle does not justify our creation of the circumstance.
Jimmie listened to stories of battle and imprisonment, of monster heroisms and self-immolations.
This class-war had been going on for ages, and had its own ethics and its own traditions; those who took part in it had their heroisms and sublimities, precisely like any other soldiers.
It is also to be noted as in the same spirit, that it was not the loud but the silent heroisms he most admired.
There areheroisms all round us waiting to be done.
I thought of Gladys, with her "There are heroisms all round us.
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