The two armies, in imitation of their leaders, displayed uncommon valor; and the victory remained long undecided between them.

In the early part of the year 1558, one of the generals of Henry II. made an irruption into western Flanders; but the gallant count of Egmont once more proved his valor and skill by attacking and totally defeating the invaders near the town of Gravelines.

The Christian cavaliers well knew the harebrained valor of Hernando del Pulgar, yet not one hesitated to step forward.

But the venerable Speaker of the House exclaimed, "Sit down, Mr. Washington; your modesty equals your valor, and that surpasses the power of any language I possess.

The rapidity with which the best galleys were sunk or disabled appalled the bravest; and at last the Turks shrank from close combat on an element where they saw that valor without experience was of no avail.

He praised, too, in the highest terms, the valor of one of the officers who had gone out with him to the fight, and whom he had now brought to the palace to present to Cleopatra.

On no occasion, however, had this reduced but not degenerate nobility shown more heroic valor.

I am not one to cheapen the valor of British and British Colonials.

The orator sees himself the organ of a multitude, and concentrating their valors and powers: "But now the blood of twenty thousand men Blushed in my face.

When the great campaign was renewed in the spring more and bigger victories would crown French valor.

Their doom they bore, held fast in prison, And the eleven creatures, clothed with dread, A herd of demons who with her went, These he subdued, destroyed their power, Crushed their valor, trod them under foot;

But God intends this, since, until we have here demonstrated our valor upon Satan, we are manifestly unworthy to be enregistered in God's army.

He said that he wished to have heard that the new works at Dunkirk had been entirely razed and destroyed; that the nation had received full and complete satisfaction for the depradation committed by the natives of Spain; that more care was taken in the disciplining of the militia, on whose valor the nation must chiefly depend in case of an invasion; and that some regard had been shown to the oppressed Protestants in Germany.

It was absolutely necessary to begin the expedition with some striking engagement such as this, which so demoralized the enemy that their fervent southern imaginations even exaggerated the valor of the Thousand.

A body of Confederates on the upper Rhine penetrated into Wallgau, where the enemy were intrenched near Frastenz, and, fourteen thousand strong, feared not the valor of the Swiss.

"If it had blown up" "No one in the whole of Calle Anloague would have been left alive," concluded Capitan Toringoy, feigning valor and indifference in the presence of his family.

God gave him that dauntless valor that France might enjoy safety during the minority of a king but four years old.

And they hewed and they thrust, till each man bit the dust, Their fierce valor availing them naught.

The brave rabble of Gauls and Goths, on the other hand, illustrated all that private valor, not reposing upon any vaster and more stable strength, has power to achieve; but these rushing torrents of prowess dashed themselves into vain spray upon the coordinated and reposing courage of Rome.

"I may ask you to do desperate thingsyou may need all your valor.

(Francesco was the first to note the valor of his young cousin Castruccio, to whom he taught the art of war.)

Stubborn resistance overcame the valor of the assailants.

Hence if you really practice valor and excellence, you should detest these men as enemies.

at thy distinguish'd deeds The world shall gaze with wonder and applause, While, on fair hist'ry's page, the patriot reads Thy matchless valor in thy country's cause.

Your prowess in action has already been tested in the past, and when fighting under my magnanimous father I myself proudly recognized your valor.