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.

" "Cut out the heroics, and come down to brass tacks," Dicky snarled vulgarly.

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.

"Look here," he said viciously, "you may as well drop those heroics.

Yet when a lieutenant is asked to state what it is really like being along with the B.E.F. when it is in its pushful mood, he sedulously eschews heroics, and will not commit himself to saying more than that it's all rightthat he doesn't think there is any cause for anxiety.

It is ashamed of making "a fuss" and hates heroics.

And Tipton is the world and modern life, which spurns the heroic, has no place for the poetry of existence, can make nothing of yearnings and longings for high heroism.

The wise juryman never takes any notice of the passion and tears, the heroics and the indignation of counsel.

The prisoners seem to have very little to do save to preserve the life of the Governor, and to talk heroics about liberty and other kindred subjects.

" "Now, see here," the man blustered, weakly, "we don't want any heroics, you know.

Dryden and Pope wrote 'heroics,' not from any sense of their fitness for bucolic poetry, but from a sense of their universal fitness: and their followers copied them.