Fame is the perfume of heroic deeds. From LearnThat.org. [Socrates (469-399 BC)]
heroic legends. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
It's really only emerging, but what we know about it now, truly the term heroic applies. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Sep 2, 2005] Reference
Nelson, who flies his colours in the ship, we see men brought to the test and giving proof of what we call heroic feeling. From Wordnik.com. [Virginibus Puerisque and other papers] Reference
Our Hope is in heroic men, Star-led, to build the world again. From Wordnik.com. [The British Navy] Reference
You may not like the word heroic but you'll have to forgive me. From Wordnik.com. [The Guardian World News] Reference
Something that those UN sanctions managed to do in heroic numbers. From Wordnik.com. [Matthew Yglesias » Think of the Children] Reference
Candidate rarely discusses being beaten following intervention some call heroic. From Wordnik.com. [The Manitowoc Herald Times Reporter Latest Headlines] Reference
He can view his spying in heroic terms, hoping 'to protect and promote freedom.'. From Wordnik.com. [An Amazon.com Books Blog featuring news, reviews, interviews and guest author blogs.] Reference
Spartan virtues; and if not himself heroic, is at least the cause of heroism in others. From Wordnik.com. [A Thousand Miles Up the Nile] Reference
Even more heroic is the stand he has taken for human dignity in these days of acute controversy. From Wordnik.com. [The Free World's Stake in the Under-Developed Countries] Reference
Could any words more aptly describe the spirit of our people than "plain heroic magnitude of mind"?. From Wordnik.com. [Address] Reference
Any movie where I can watch Hugh Jackman jump around being heroic is worth a lazy weekend afternoon. From Wordnik.com. [Used DVD Bonanza at Hollywood Video » DVDs Worth Watching] Reference
The portrayal of Harvey Milk as being a deeply flawed, imperfect guy who was also heroic is really great, too. From Wordnik.com. [“Milk” echoes the joyous nature of its subject » Scene-Stealers] Reference
The Sunnis who are willing to kill and maim innocent men, women, and children can hardly be viewed in heroic terms. From Wordnik.com. [Balkinization] Reference
Before giving any extracts, we must inform our readers, that this romance is meant to be written in English heroic rhyme. From Wordnik.com. [Early Reviews of English Poets] Reference
In the foreground a youthful Benazir Bhutto stood in heroic pose on an escarpment overlooking the featureless grid of Islamabad. From Wordnik.com. [A Modest Proposal From the Brigadier] Reference
And the teachers at these voucher schools tend to be more idealistic and motivated to put in heroic efforts on behalf of these children. From Wordnik.com. [Matthew Yglesias » Vouchers in DC] Reference
Maybe the word heroic is a little over the top here but it can be used to describe other things other than being in Iraq or Afghanistan. From Wordnik.com. [chicagotribune.com - News] Reference
China has outgrown the so-called heroic age, in which. From Wordnik.com. [Round the World] Reference
One feels mildly heroic, which is not wholly disagreeable either. From Wordnik.com. [A Student in Arms Second Series] Reference
Chaldæans had a vast number of so-called heroic and nature myths. From Wordnik.com. [General History for Colleges and High Schools] Reference
To love the hero, to recall the heroic past, is good for the future. From Wordnik.com. [South American Fights and Fighters And Other Tales of Adventure] Reference
But what was there one could possibly do in Mars which could be called heroic?. From Wordnik.com. [Daybreak; a Romance of an Old World] Reference
It is a man's bride, to be won by labours and agonies that bespeak a heroic lover. From Wordnik.com. [Style] Reference
I've made what I would once have called a heroic effort to like her, but Josie Pye won't. From Wordnik.com. [Anne of Green Gables] Reference
I got into Mulberry Street at what might well be called the heroic age of police reporting. From Wordnik.com. [The Making of an American] Reference
This is called the heroic age, and is known to us only by legends and traditions, called myths. From Wordnik.com. [Ancient States and Empires] Reference
Thus it is that we find the idea of heroic duty filling so enormous a space in the tragedies of. From Wordnik.com. [The Buried Temple] Reference
The reader must remember that the so-called heroic style of Pope's period is now hopelessly effete. From Wordnik.com. [Alexander Pope English Men of Letters Series] Reference
Writing a book about a thief doing his thing is a bit of a departure from the idea of heroic fantasy. From Wordnik.com. [Word Around the Net] Reference
Flora de Barral in a manner which in a timid man might have been called heroic if it had not been so simple. From Wordnik.com. [Chance A Tale in Two Parts] Reference
Badness generally is undesirable; but badness in its essence, which may be called heroic badness, is gratuitous. From Wordnik.com. [Short Studies on Great Subjects] Reference
Our work lies now in those peaceful occupations which, in ages called heroic, were thought unworthy of noble souls. From Wordnik.com. [Short Studies on Great Subjects] Reference
Yet who can say that when we shall have slowly emerged from the era of property into the era of man, his act may not be called heroic?. From Wordnik.com. [The Root of Evil] Reference
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