The right of the armada was commanded by Mehemet Siroco, viceroy of Egypt, a circumspect as well as courageous leader; the left by Uluch Ali, dey of Algiers, the redoubtable corsair of the Mediterranean.

The author of the Gesta Stephani expresses his wonder at the marvellous escapes of this courageous woman.

"And, by the way," continued Mathieu, "one thing which astonishes me is that no courageous, intelligent man has ever yet come forward to do something with all that vast abandoned estate yonderthat Chantebledwhich old Seguin, formerly, dreamt of turning into a princely domain.

Then, gentle ministers of all my hopes, That with your swords made way unto my wish, Hearken the fruits of your courageous fight.

The capitano began yelping like a cowardly school-boy, who has been well punched by a lesser and more courageous antagonist.

I began by going to find in the Rue St. Anastase the courageous woman who had hidden Auguste and his three companions, to whom she had several times since rendered assistance.

All the Representatives cheered this eloquent and courageous man.

In the large room Sain, seated in an arm-chair, his feet on the dog-irons, drying his wet boots before a huge fire, said, with that calm and courageous smile which he wore in the Tribune, "Things are looking badly for us, but well for the Republic.

They had transferred him to the Fort of Bicêtre, together with Crocé Spinelli, Genillier, Hippolyte Magen, a talented and courageous writer, Goudounèche, a schoolmaster, and Polino.

These fine seamen, though quite strange to the hazardous work which they were called upon to undertake, quickly accustomed themselves to their new duties, and the nation should ever be full of gratitude that it bred such a race of hardy, skilful and courageous men as those who took so great a part in defeating the greatest menace with which the Empire has ever been faced.

I must leave to abler pens than mine the task of recording in fitting phrase some of the courageous actions of our small craft which will be looked upon as amongst the most glorious episodes of the Naval part of the Great War, and content myself to mention only one case, that of the trawler Grand Duke, working in the Milford area in May, 1917.

They were a personally courageous race.

But I had not reckoned upon the patrol leader, the little Owl, the Hibou of a Boy Scout so deft and courageous.

All of us, that is, except our courageous and silent friend Mr. Dawson."

He was as courageous as he was faithful; as indifferent to reproach as he was eager for friendship.

True it is, in all points of spirit befitting an honorable dog, he was as courageous an animal as ever scoured the woodsbut what courage can withstand the ever-during and all-besetting terrors of a woman's tongue?

Instead of independent and courageous judges we shall have timid and time-serving judges.

Considering the power of the Pope in the fourteenth century, Wyclif was as bold and courageous as Luther.

But the bo'sun, who was a very courageous man, and calm withal, walked over to the closed window, and saw to it that the battens were secure; for he had knowledge sufficient to be sure, if this were so, that no creature with strength less than that of a whale could break it down, and in such case its bulk would assure us from being molested.

But you will see how courageous I shall be.

"But come," he said with sudden gaiety, "we are not going to sleep here?" You cannot believe how much this courageous display of joviality contributed towards giving me strength and hope.

But custom brought relaxation in the strictness of the prison rules; and the wife of the illustrious prisoner, his faithful and constant visitor, proposed the plan of his escape, to which he gave a ready and, all hazards considered, a courageous assent.

Tennyson's immature work, like that of the minor poets, is sometimes in a doubtful or despairing strain; but his In Memoriam is like the rainbow after storm; and Browning seems better to express the spirit of his age in the strong, manly faith of "Rabbi Ben Ezra," and in the courageous optimism of all his poetry.

How could it be averted otherwise than by the assassination of Henry himself, and his cousin Condé, and the brave old admiral, as powerful as Guise, as courageous as Du Gueslin, and as pious as Godfrey?

A bribe in his closet, or a letter on the bench, or the whispering and winks of a great neighbour, are answered with an angry and courageous repulse.