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Adjective : valorous deeds. From Dictionary.com.
He seems to have cherished an intense affection for the Leyden pastor, such as valorous natures often feel for meditative ones, and that. From Wordnik.com. [The Old Coast Road From Boston to Plymouth] Reference
"valorous" pants and shoulders I got as drops, and the wrist, ring, and cloak are about as good as what I'm already wearing. From Wordnik.com. [Tobold's MMORPG Blog] Reference
With valorous spirit, but they sped to the forest. From Wordnik.com. [Beowulf An Anglo-Saxon Epic Poem] Reference
You are over valorous at a distance; too timorous near her. From Wordnik.com. [Under the Rose] Reference
Did they parley with cunning lawyers, cajole the boor, act the valorous on. From Wordnik.com. [John Splendid The Tale of a Poor Gentleman, and the Little Wars of Lorn] Reference
James A. Wilkinson, the valorous Past Grand Seignior, has gone to look after. From Wordnik.com. [The Great North-Western Conspiracy in All Its Startling Details] Reference
At that time Diogenes, the aide of Belisarius, made a display of valorous deeds. From Wordnik.com. [History of the Wars, Books III and IV (of 8) The Vandalic War] Reference
Then claims Andromeda, the rich reward, without a dower, of all his valorous toil. From Wordnik.com. [The Metamorphoses of Publius Ovidus Naso in English blank verse Vols. I & II] Reference
It is a privilege to place on record the valorous conduct of this un-named soldier. From Wordnik.com. [The Story of the 2/4th Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry] Reference
Are the grateful thanks of your countrymen and posterity no inducement to valorous acts?. From Wordnik.com. [Recollections of Forty Years in the House, Senate and Cabinet An Autobiography.] Reference
And even a valorous medal winner can come home a post-traumatic-stress-disorder wife beater. From Wordnik.com. [Fear At The Front] Reference
This man was both gentle and well-endowed with sagacity and thoroughly capable of valorous deeds. From Wordnik.com. [History of the Wars, Books III and IV (of 8) The Vandalic War] Reference
The valorous knight of La Mancha set forth to fight for ideas, and he began to wage war with windmills. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 5, No. 5, May, 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy] Reference
While he is alive and after his death this image will remind his subjects of him and his valorous deeds. From Wordnik.com. [The Principles of Aesthetics] Reference
Ivanhoe and Rowena are united by consent of Sir Cedric, who is now wholly reconciled to his valorous son. From Wordnik.com. [The Standard Operaglass Detailed Plots of One Hundred and Fifty-one Celebrated Operas] Reference
Knights in the warfare for Mankind, that will endure as long as the story of valorous deeds are recorded. From Wordnik.com. [History of the American Negro in the Great World War His Splendid Record in the Battle Zones of Europe; Including a Resume of His Past Services to his Country in the Wars of the Revolution, of 1812, the War of Rebellion, the Indian Wars on the Frontier, the Spanish-American War, and the Late Imbroglio With Mexico] Reference
Urco-collac, near Parcos, in the country of Huamanca, he met with valorous resistance from the inhabitants. From Wordnik.com. [History of the Incas] Reference
Barbour likes to show the king, simple, patriarchal and valorous, stern to his foes, and gentle to the weak. From Wordnik.com. [A Literary History of the English People From the Origins to the Renaissance] Reference
Finallie, in memorie of the said Elfleds magnanimitie and valorous mind, this epitaph was fixed on hir toome. From Wordnik.com. [Chronicles (1 of 6): The Historie of England (6 of 8) The Sixt Booke of the Historie of England] Reference
Leontius, the sons of Zaunas the son of Pharesmanes, made a splendid display of valorous deeds against the enemy. From Wordnik.com. [History of the Wars, Books III and IV (of 8) The Vandalic War] Reference
All being ready, the Inca nominated two of his sons as captains of the army, valorous men, named the one Tupac Ayar. From Wordnik.com. [History of the Incas] Reference
This is a world view which asks of men a valorous and expensive service for which it cannot supply the driving power. From Wordnik.com. [Christianity and Progress] Reference
Duke, on the other hand, observed the uneasiness of the Prince (as he thought him), and waxed more valorous every minute. From Wordnik.com. [Stories by Foreign Authors: German — Volume 1] Reference
Jean, the illegitimate son of Luce d'Alberguex, was lovable and valorous, but lacking in firmness or dignity of character. From Wordnik.com. [The Counts of Gruyère] Reference
But it was so great, that the valorous Captain Diaz, who well remembered the place, says the leap was impossible to any man. From Wordnik.com. [Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 8] Reference
But Principius and Tarmutus with some few of the infantry of their command made a display of valorous deeds against the Goths. From Wordnik.com. [Procopius History of the Wars, Books V. and VI.] Reference
An upper window was opened, and the guardian of the echo -- a valorous divine in a black night-cap -- demanded their business. From Wordnik.com. [A Love Story] Reference
Loncarty, in Perthshire, turned back the invaders of his country, in a narrow pass, with the sole aid of his own valorous sons. From Wordnik.com. [The Life, Public Services and Select Speeches of Rutherford B. Hayes] Reference
In this battle John, the Armenian, brother of Artabanes, also died, after making a display of valorous deeds against the enemy. From Wordnik.com. [History of the Wars, Books III and IV (of 8) The Vandalic War] Reference
If a squire for valorous conduct received knighthood on the battlefield, the accolade by stroke of the sword formed the only ceremony. From Wordnik.com. [Early European History] Reference
They have astonished military circles by their valorous actions and daring enterprises, and have merited imperishable honour and glory. From Wordnik.com. [In the Shadow of Death] Reference
A global village for the virtuous and valorous, Salafism purports to offer a way — no, the way — to combine reverence with modernity. From Wordnik.com. [E Pluribis Islam?] Reference
Old men who could no longer bear arms took similar stations, and harangued the warriors as they passed, exhorting them to valorous deeds. From Wordnik.com. [Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 4] Reference
Young Thomas had ridden with Brunner, seeking him out, as the novice always seeks out the veteran, to practise his valorous speeches upon. From Wordnik.com. [McClure's Magazine, Vol 31, No 2, June 1908] Reference
During this period Sulla gained renown by his valorous deeds, but the jealousy that had begun in Africa increased, and in 103 or 102, he left. From Wordnik.com. [The Story of Rome from the Earliest Times to the End of the Republic] Reference
Fallujah was another victory for a Marine battalion with a bloody, valorous history -- Guadalcanal, Okinawa, Inchon, Cho-sin Reservoir, Hué City. From Wordnik.com. [Probing Bloodbath] Reference
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