8699 examples of courage in sentences

(WITH APOLOGIES TO R.K.) If you can keep your courage and your curls up When life a whirling chaos seems to be Of amorous swains who want to ring their girls up And get them through at once (as you for me); If you can calm the weary and the waxy, When no appeals, however nicely put, Can lure from rank or pub.

His voice trembled at the commencement, but little by little, growing stronger, taking courage, inspired by the sacred text, he forgot everything, and the Superior, old Father Richard, who watched him with his little bright cunning eyes, and the unmoved professors, and his watchful fellow-students, jeering and scoffing at first, then at last astonished and jealous.

Then a friendly hand should be stretched towards us, should lift us up and say to us "Courage."

Under these circumstances vanity takes the place of courage, and gives to the commonest girl the instincts of a patrician.

"Once again then, my dear fellow, courage.

So in sickness and in sorrow, so in joy and prosperity, we must rely on each other and let no discouraging apprehensions shake our courage.

But we must not lose courage or hope.

I trust we may be very quiet here for some time, and then one must gather courage for London and the battle of life again.

Unpopular since his apparent change of front regarding the Vienna treaty, it would have been small wonder if Lord John had taken the advice of his committee and retired from the contest; but he was bent on taking his one-to-hundred chance, and, as it turned out, his courage won the seat.

They were borne by Lord and Lady Russell with heroic courage and unfaltering faith.

When the bystanders recovered sufficient courage to drag the unfortunate sexton out of the pit, they found him quite dead.

"I know not, after what I have heard, whether you have courage for the deed," she continued.

A great part of courage is the courage of having done the thing before.

Who of us does not look with great tenderness on the young chieftain in the "Fair Maid of Perth," when he confesses his want of courage?

When it came his turn to declaim before the school, he had not the courage to do it.

Moses, Joshua, and Caleb, employ their wisdom, courage, and experience, in the service of the community, and the community serve Moses, Joshua, and Caleb, in furnishing them with food and raiment, and making them partakers of the general prosperity.

The clergy at the north cringe beneath the corrupting influence of slavery, and their moral courage is borne down by it.

I dreaded asking how far he was going; but another passengerunder the influence of the human nosegay he was constrained to inhalesummed up the courage to pop the question, and received a reply which extinguished in my breast the last flickering ray of Hope's dim taper"Sair, I vosh go to Nashveele."

The youth, understanding the refusal conveyed in that terrible glance, had however enough courage to add, "You don't want them, sir!"

They sat till the family clock struck nine ere Hannah could muster courage to announce her father's decision, and related the conversation that had just occurred.

These circumstances gave her courage; and when, on the morning of the 2nd of September, she came to the council of war, which was held in the Augustine Monastery and presided over by the Maréchal de Brissac, accompanied by her two sons, she remarked with undisguised gratification that more than two thousand nobles were already assembled.

Masterpieces of painting from the National Gallery of Art; The Divine Comedy: The essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson; The red badge of courage.

She knew she had given him intimate hopes, she had not the courage to examine her mind thoroughly for the extent of her encouragement.

She who had never faced hardship and exposure had courage for herselfand me.

He attacked Chitor, but was foiled by the masculine courage of the Rana's concubine queen.

8699 examples of  courage  in sentences