Regretful good-byes were said to plucky little de Garros, whose demonstrative eyes were wet as he clasped their hands in farewell.
Had he known of this, it is likely that, plucky as the lad was, he would have given way entirely to despair.
Phil, like the pluckyperformer that he was, declined their offers of assistance and struggled to his feet.
The passengers had all heard the remarkable tale from the captain that morning, and they were anxious to see the young Circus Boy who had performed such a plucky act.
Still there were some plucky ones among the dozen or so in this pack, and they knew how to fight bears when they had them on the run.
Suddenly the bear dragged him in, and although the plucky fellow tried to use his teeth, it was of no use.
No wonder that the plucky lad felt that this was a crisis in his life, and that if ever he had his wits about him they were needed now.
The ship lies snugly at anchor; a boat with muffled oars, comes quietly to the side; half a dozen plucky men glide up like snakes on to the deck.
Only a few plucky people struggled to keep the hounds going, and to find work for the hunters that had escaped the first requisition of horses for France.
He was grateful for his grandmother's comfortable: "Well, I think it's very pluckyof Val.
He was a plucky fellow, and when the doctor told him he had to go, he didn't weaken.
Ned Rogers, a "down-east" plucky lad ships as cabin boy to earn a livelihood.
You're a plucky lad, and you've done what you could," he said.
Soon they had her off, and our plucky schooner took her in tow all the three hundred miles to the nearest dry-dock at St. John's.
Charles Parkhurst, famous especially for his plucky exposure of the former rottenness of the police force of that city, had asked me to give an illustrated lecture at his mission in the Bowery.
With these come the plucky little Ulster boats from Belfast and Larne, Loch Swilly and Loch Foyle; and not a few of the hereditary seafaring men from Cornwall, Devon, and Dorset.
Here she was sold by auction, and part of the proceeds divided as her ransom to her plucky salvors.
But it was plucky to drive that team over Link's bridge just before it went down.
To be sure, and in the meantime the plucky young fellow is hustling to get back to the vessel and bring us help.
I want to say a few words in behalf of your son, and am only expressing the sentiments of the majority of the boys when I tell you that he is a plucky little chap, and a credit to the Hilltop Academy.
You are a plucky little fellow, but I don't want you to take any risks.
Its plucky teacher, Miss Kyrias (now Mrs. Dako), conducted it with an ability and enthusiasm worthy of the highest praise.
News came from Djakovo that Father Palitch, a plucky Franciscan, whom I had met there in 1908, had been bayoneted to death for refusing to make the sign of the cross in Orthodox fashion.
It describes the mother love, the shrewd sense, and the plucky perseverance of an Irish widow with seven young children.
Now all these people, vary as they might in church creeds, were united in a hearty admiration for plucky little Mrs. O'Callaghan.
The seven boys, whom the widow trains to be good and useful men, are as plucky as she; and they have a good bit of Irish loyalty as well as of the Irish brogue.
Nothing loth, a plucky little bear stooped and rushed in to collar the defiant passenger round the waist.
The horror of the situation gripped the plucky girl.
Then horror gave place to a strange fascination as she followed Mostyn's plucky and desperate struggle against the two Arabs.
A little to the left, resplendent in gilt trappings and buttons, sat General Sherman, with his weather-beaten and kindly face, and by his side plucky Phil.
He was appointed commander of the Legation Quarter by the foreign representatives, and a plucky resistance was made.
The heavy seas, however, put out her fires and drove her ashore; nevertheless her plucky French sailors re-lit the fires and again launched their boat.
Well, you are a plucky girl to keep up your spirits so well, and no mistake!
