I have never seen a braver man," and I glanced at Brightson where he sat, his musket across his knees.

In all his work one finds a mystery, a hiding of some deep thing which the world would gladly know and share, and which is suggested in his haunting little poem, "The Undertaking": I have done one braver thing Than all the worthies did; And yet a braver thence doth spring, Which is, to keep that hid.

Rest you assured, Madam, they are dead: The one of them, to whom I was allyed And neerely knit in friendship from my youth, By me lyes buried heere: a braver knight And truer Lover never breathd in Fraunce.

No-braver chief could Albion boast Than he with whom he went, Nor ever ship left Albion's coast With warmer wishes sent.

Sleep, and till the latest trumpet wakes the dead from earth and sea, Scotland shall not boast a braver chieftain than our own Dundee! W.E.A.

In brief, a braver choice of dauntless spirits Than now the English bottoms have waft o'er Did never float upon the swelling tide.

I want to say that no fleet ever met a braver enemy than we did at Santiago.

"A braver festa never honored an Italian corso," continued the Neapolitan, whose head was running on his own fancies, without troubling itself about the apprehensions and wishes of others.

The army couldn't have lost a braver gentleman, had he remained in it.

A braver heart never beat in human breast; throughout the war he retained the respect and admiration of the army and the country; and a strange fact in relation to this eminent soldier is, that his name was uttered by both Jackson and Lee as they expired.

Republican Rome had no braver heroes than Christian Rome.

This plain floor, Believe me, reader, can say more Than many a braver marble can, Here lies a truly honest man.

170 Nor stay'd the English long; but, well supplied, Appear as numerous as the insulting foe: The combat now by courage must be tried, And the success the braver nation show.

there is no braver person under heaven than yonder Dutch Frau!

Let me not live, if I do not think 'tis a braver piece of service than that I'me so fam'd for. Mar. Why, art thou fam'd for any valour? Bes. Fam'd!

The braver portion, whose patriotism could be relied on, was ill-armed and undisciplined, while the enemy's troops consisted of veterans in the highest state of equipment and training, familiarized with victory and commanded by officers of proved skill and valor.

There isn't a braver race in the world.

Thou hast a good reason for thy regrets, since a gayer marriage of the sea, or a braver regatta, has not been witnessed in Venice since thou wast born.

But then, let me tell you, No blood would I shed, No victory seek o'er The dying and dead; A far braver soldier Than this would I be; A warrior of Truth, In the ranks of the free!

Sole hope of this my household, martial maid Whom ordered ranks and discipline austere Have shaped (I gather) for a braver trade, So that respect, not all unmixed with fear, Informs my breast as I await you here, Your title, with its stern Cæsarian touch, Does, to be frank, alarm me very much.

Our people could have no truer, no braver ally.

There never were any braver troops than those in the world, but at first they didn't have the automatic discipline they needed.

The truth is, I never saw such a despicable appearance of men in arms to begin a war in my life; whether it was that I had seen so many braver armies abroad that prejudiced me against them, or that it really was so; for to me they seemed little better than a rabble met together to devour, rather than fight for their king and country.

These tales made living seem a braver business, for all that they were written by a poltroon.