With a calmer mind, I became again curious to know into what that trap opened; but could not, then, summon sufficient courage to make a further investigation.

Most sad and pitiable it is to see how much weakness of heart there is in the worldhow little true moral courage.

While the temper of the times seems for the moment pessimistic, it merely marks the recognition of man of an abyss whose existence he barely suspected but over which his indomitable courage will yet carry him.

He knew his own unflinching Puritan principles, and his own undaunted courage; and he knew his value in the eyes of Standish.

And if they have not obtained great successes, still, in this gigantic grapple, they have displayed desperate courage which compels the admiration of their opponents.

A man of such splendid courage seems worthy of a better fate.

The lady Rosalind (or Ganimed as she must now be called) with her manly garb seemed to have put on a manly courage.

Both he and his Hungarians fought with dauntless courage, availing themselves of every advantage and beating back every assault.

All that is well, but what is such courage, stimulated by excitement and braced by the ignominy which follows the laggard in such a strife, to that calm, enduring, moral courage of him who encounters the toil and hardships incident to the settlement of a new country, and battles with the dangers, the long years of privation, which lie before the pioneer who goes into the forest to carve out a home for himself and his children?

They were thus trained by labor and povertypossibly by dangersto manly energies and heroic courage.

Monday had been the sixth day of the siege and the Belgian army was fighting with reckless courage to save Antwerp.

Up to that time not a shot had been fired from The Victory; and Nelson declared that never in all his battles had he seen anything which surpassed the cool courage of his crew.

O extraordinary courage and spirit of the Roman people in such oppressive and distressing circumstances!

These are ways approved, and amiable to all men; they procure the best friends, and fewest enemies; they afford to the practises a cheerful courage, and good hope; they meet with less disappointment, and have no regret or shame attending them.

He had now before him a fresh opportunity for exhibiting his prodigious strength and invincible courage.

There is brute courage, which comes from hardness of heart, from stupidity, obstinacy, or anger, which does not see danger, or does not feel pain.

Reinforced, they attacked with magnificent courage in face of heavy machine-gun fire, but it was not until after a rather prolonged period of bayonet work that the Lowland troops got the upper hand, the Turks trying again and again to force them out.

Harold was deaf to all these remonstrances: elated with his past prosperity, as well as stimulated by his native courage, he resolved to give battle in person; and for that purpose he drew near to the Normans, who had removed their camp and fleet to Hastings, where they fixed their quarters.

He wants spiritual couragethe courage which comes by faith.

" The girl looked up with a steady frank courage and unaffected readiness I had not expected.

They knew their great commander, and had confidence in him, and this aided them during that eventful day in holding their positions with that stubborn courage which destroyed all the hopes of the Emperor Napoleon.

She was overwhelmed by the woman's utterly unconscious impressiveness, which exceeded that of a criminal reprieved on the scaffold, for the woman had dared an experience that only the fierce and sublime courage of desperation can affront.

In battle I have seen him expose himself with a courage worthy of the best Indian traditions; nor have I ever heard it intimated by any one that he was a coward.

That he was intimidating her, and using his brother's death for that purpose, was beyond doubt, and the very fact that Edith Morriston was a woman of uncommon courage and self-control, one who in ordinary circumstances would be the last to give way to fear or submit to bullying, showed how serious the matter had become.

Among these was Robert, Duke of Normandy, who, as he had relinquished the greatest dominions of any prince that attended the crusade, had all along distinguished himself by the most intrepid courage, as well as by that affable disposition and unbounded generosity which gain the hearts of soldiers, and qualify a prince to shine in a military life.