The conduct of this old man, so jealous for his name, so upright, so courageous in misfortune, excited profound sympathy.

Of moral qualities, Heaven forgive me, I fear I thought less; but I believed, though I had been little proved, that I was as courageous as the common run of men.

Perhaps I am less courageous than he, in thinking more of the present benefit you would derive from the voyage and the change of scene, than of the perils and discomforts which might await you, for aught we can foretell now, at the end of it.

It is courageous of Mr. HOWARD to place on record his apparent belief that a total absence of the three "R's" and any number of "h's" cannot debar a strong-minded daughter of the slums from the higher rungs of the histrionic ladder.

The venerable martyr, courageous through faith and the sanctity of his life, is no longer hurried to the flames.

And yet they were courageous to a degree (the Saxons, not the pigs).

A few black ghosts flying for their lives were all they could see of the band that had been so courageous with only History and Tug to take care of.

She had returned poor, disinherited; and all you could henceforth have partaken with her was your labours: while rendered more delicate by her education, and more courageous by her misfortunes, you would have beheld her every day sinking beneath her efforts to share and soften your fatigues.

And Grizel despised too tender-hearted Elspeth for that; she was so courageous at facing pain herself.

Cairns was hot and courageous under the spell.