I question if, after showing the bravery they already had, the lads needed any words to stiffen their backs; but it pleased the old soldier to make it appear as if we had clear sailing before us, and did no real harm.

It did not extend to the common soldiers, who admired his impulsive bravery and had unbounded faith in his resources as a leader.

" I had been tried too hard, and was all but proving my bravery by weeping like a bairn. CHAPTER XIV.

You displayed a daring and bravery which we once admired.

His action required cool bravery, because the Germans, having found the range, continued firing directly at these batteries.

A man long suspected of very lewd behaviour, Yet standing ever so high in Fortune's favour, As never till now he could be bewrayed Of any offence, that to him might be laid: Now wanting (belike) his wonted bravery, He thought to supply it by murther and robbery.

The old wretch intimated that it was only "a freak of the boys"; that the young men had wanted to see if I was brave; in fact, they had only meant to test my bravery, and that the whole thing was a joke.

But no one who has observed Bengali schoolboys standing up bare-legged to fast bowling will question their bravery.

But the Duke, though deficient in political courage, possessed personal bravery in an eminent degree; and notwithstanding his wisdom and experience, he thought that he should be forever disgraced if, by taking shelter behind walls, he should for a moment resign the victory to a woman.

We knew that our army had no alternative but to fly, or fight with a force four times stronger than its own: and though we could not doubt British bravery, we trembled at the fearful odds to which our men must be exposed.

The mothers first applauded the bravery of their sons; and then applied herbs to their swollen limbs, and the mimic war furnished a subject of amusement for the villages for the remainder of the day.

"But although the French army had ceased to exist as such, and now (to use the phrase of a Prussian officer) exhibited rather the flight of a scattered horde of barbarians, than the retreat of a disciplined bodynever had it, in the proudest days of its glory, shown greater devotion to its leader, or displayed more desperate and unyielding bravery, than during the long and sanguine battle of the 18th.

She bestows her year's wages at next fair; and, in choosing her garments, counts no bravery in the world like decency.

"No." He did not mention her bravery, or the loyal support of Beth and Patsy, but after a moment he added: "I'm not worth defending.

" Seeing the bravery of Isfendiyár, Amazement filled the soul of Kurugsar.

It was all in its glory about the time when Thomas-à-Becket, the Magnificent, used to entertain great companies of belted knights of the realm in a manner that exceeded regal munificence in those dayseven directing fresh straw to be laid for them on his ample mansion floor, that they might not soil the bravery of their dresses when they bunked down for the night.

During all this affair, Hobomak had remained a quiet spectator of the combat, and of the defeat of his countrymen; and now he approached the English captain, and complacently praised his bravery and military prowess; and he remained as devoted as ever to his Christian friends.

These made up a considerable body of men, nor did any others exhibit more conspicuous bravery or activity during the Volscian war.

The rival poets assembled to discover who could turn the deftest phrases in satire of the opposing tribe, or extol most eloquently the bravery and skill of his own people, the beauty and modesty of their women, and from these wild outpourings Mahomet learnt to clothe his thoughts in that splendid garment whose jewels illumine the earlier part of the Kuran.

" "You never will see that," reply I, laconically, gathering bravery enough to look him in the face, as I deliver this encouraging remark.

Starr'd all with lights; Which with my drawne sword rifling, in a roome Hung full of Pictures, drawne so full of sweetnesse They struck a reverence in me, found I a woman, A Lady all in white; the very Candles Took brightnesse from her eyes and those cleare Pearles Which in aboundance falling on her cheekes Gave them a lovely bravery.

As for Enid, I will leave you to guess whether or no she thought Pretty the greatest hero of his age,or any age,and whether or no she gossiped his bravery all around Lakerim long after the Dozen were away again in Kingston.

"Each relation that offered a sacrifice flogged a youth and delivered a discourse to him, exhorting him to be valiant and never to be a traitor to the Sun and the Inca, but to imitate the bravery and prowess of his ancestors.

Robert, his eldest son, surnamed Gambaron or Curthose, from his short legs, was a prince who inherited all the bravery of his family and nation; but without that policy and dissimulation, by which his father was so much distinguished, and which, no less than his military valour, had contributed to his great successes.

Then, and then only, will he be able to judge the bravery of the nation which, preferring death to dishonour, has in all likelihood saved both France and ourselves from sharing its terrible but glorious fate.