It has sometimes seemed to me, my ladypardon the rudeness of suggesting itthat you may have seen something romantic, something heroic in me from time to time.

Perhaps the heroics of Louise did not greatly impress her.

He was a fresh, wholehearted fellow, and though he persisted in considering us all as little less than heroes, was himself heroic as any, as I was in the end to learn.

She had begun to see there was something exciting and perhaps heroic about the adventure.

It is not extremely heroic for a man tormented with sorrow to go to a gambling hall and then to a dance hall to seek relief.

Is it believed that our people can be heroic on one condition only, that they shall be asked to fight no one but orangoutangs?

"First young love,parting gift,Cousin Harry proves fickle,Aunt Linny banishes the Button-Rose from her window,takes to books, and educating naughty nieces, and doing good to everybody,'bearing to live,' as more heroic than 'daring to die,'in ten years gets so that she can speak of it with composure, as a lesson to romantic girls.

Nevertheless some, and the most heroic amongst them,Dunois, La Hire, and Xaintrailles,were moved by what was told of this young girl.

But I have no facility with the brush, and mere words cannot convey how he passed from the proudly heroic to the hopelessly miserable in the course of the journey.

He had in him, I know, a tiny, tiny creature with sharp ironical eyes and pointed springing feet who watched his poses, his sentimentalities and heroics with affectionate scorn.

However, nobody has a right to demand the heroic from all the world; and if to publish his dissent from the opinions which he nominally holds would reduce a man to beggary, human charity bids us say as little as may be.

As I stood watching them all the stupendousness of the times rushed over me that you and I, who have rubbed our noses on historical monuments so often, have chased after emotions on the scenes of past heroism, and applauded mock heroics across the footlights, should be living in days like these, days in which heroism is the common act of every hour.

Holding the most powerful position in the nation, he never came upon the scene but to commit some new act of ingenious pusillanimity; while, by some extraordinary chance, every woman of his immediate kindred was a natural heroine, and became more heroic through disgust at him.

I think I am not quite a clod, or quite without some aspirations above money-getting; for I sincerely desire that courage which makes daily life heroic by self-denial and cheerfulness of heart; I am eager to conquer my own rebellious nature, and earn the confidence of innocent and upright souls; I have a great ambition to become as good a man and leave as green a memory behind me as old John Lord.