He was Brentford's defensive star in pluckily holding out the determined Reading raids for long periods.    From Wordnet, Princeton University. 

Adjective, : The drowning swimmer was rescued by a plucky schoolboy.    From Dictionary.com. 

The NYT is amazed that the 3 women councillors "pluckily" stuck with it, "bright and alert to the very end.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Whatever It Is, I’m Against It] Reference

The small face went pluckily into lines of humour.    From Wordnik.com.  [Men of Affairs] Reference

But the young firemen pluckily stuck to their task.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Young Firemen of Lakeville; or, Herbert Dare's Pluck] Reference

‘No,’ said Frank, pluckily, as he put his horse into.    From Wordnik.com.  [Doctor Thorne] Reference

She kept tight hold of the book and faced Glory pluckily.    From Wordnik.com.  [Glory and the Other Girl] Reference

"You came through it, didn't you?" she demanded pluckily.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ruth Fielding at the War Front or, The Hunt for the Lost Soldier] Reference

They leaped pluckily from their boats and dashed up the beach.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Kangaroo Marines] Reference

He used to ride most pluckily to hounds, strapped on to his saddle.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Reminiscences of an Irish Land Agent] Reference

"It was a splendid race and pluckily rowed, and you deserved to win.".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Boy Scouts Patrol] Reference

Most of the Chinese crew fought pluckily, but there were some skulkers.    From Wordnik.com.  [Famous Sea Fights From Salamis to Tsu-Shima] Reference

Garnett squared his shoulders and plunged pluckily into the discussion.    From Wordnik.com.  [Afterwards] Reference

Duggie Le Page went into No-Man's Land and pluckily brought in a wounded.    From Wordnik.com.  [Norman Ten Hundred A Record of the 1st (Service) Bn. Royal Guernsey Light Infantry] Reference

"I'm ever so ashamed of myself, Miss Eleanor," she said, smiling pluckily.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Camp Fire Girls on the Farm Or, Bessie King's New Chum] Reference

He replied that he certainly was, and pluckily added, "I wish I were fighting now.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Five Months on a German Raider Being the Adventures of an Englishman Captured by the 'Wolf'] Reference

Then, looking up pluckily at the young lady, he added, "I never saw you out there.".    From Wordnik.com.  [A Brace Of Boys 1867, From "Little Brother"] Reference

"I don't think so," she said pluckily after a moment gulping down her disappointment.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chicken Little Jane] Reference

While the giants were thus manoeuvring the little "Gloucester" had come pluckily into action.    From Wordnik.com.  [Famous Sea Fights From Salamis to Tsu-Shima] Reference

The latter had struck out pluckily for the shore when she came up from her involuntary plunge.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ruth Fielding in Moving Pictures Or, Helping the Dormitory Fund] Reference

“Did you?” said Mr. Hoopdriver, quite at sea, but rising pluckily to the unknown occasion.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Wheels of Chance: a bicycling idyll] Reference

It would take more than an indisposition, which he pluckily ignored, to put him off his stroke.    From Wordnik.com.  [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 156, June 25, 1919] Reference

Tommy's face, ordinarily pale, had grown ghastly, but she pluckily kept her discomfort to herself.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Meadow-Brook Girls Afloat] Reference

Still she kept on pluckily, and whenever I turned to help her, I found her there at my elbow, ready.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Rim of the Desert] Reference

"Don't mind me, boys -- turn loose on him!" cried Blake pluckily, but nobody seemed inclined to obey.    From Wordnik.com.  [When Dreams Come True] Reference

But pluckily he kept on, inch by inch, and finally was almost within touch of the unsuspecting prisoner.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Young Railroaders Tales of Adventure and Ingenuity] Reference

The cruiser "Chi-yuen" had been pluckily fought by her Chinese captain, Tang, and her English engineer, Purvis.    From Wordnik.com.  [Famous Sea Fights From Salamis to Tsu-Shima] Reference

Smithers was pluckily doing up his bootlace several yards away; a tactless grin seemed to desolate his features.    From Wordnik.com.  [Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 146, June 3, 1914] Reference

The previous evening had been the occasion of her reception, and she had carried it pluckily through single-handed.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Splendid Folly] Reference

All this makes terrible havoc, but the new generations take fresh courage and pluckily restore the fallen habitations.    From Wordnik.com.  [Life in a Thousand Worlds] Reference

He would have had little chance against them had not the slender lady very pluckily pulled up and returned to his help.    From Wordnik.com.  [The War of the Worlds] Reference

Even so, the three Americans pluckily visit museums, churches and galleries and sample the camaraderie of table d'hôte.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Master Takes a Tour] Reference

On her side she played up pluckily, hoping that by falling in with his humour she might yet win the odd trick of the game.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Vision of Desire] Reference

In the meantime "-- for a moment his voice faltered, but he pulled himself together pluckily --" I leave my girl in your care.    From Wordnik.com.  [Afterwards] Reference

And she had said, "How exciting!" and "What fun!" with lips that smiled pluckily in apparent acceptance of this flimsy excuse.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Palace of Darkened Windows] Reference

Climbing a long hill the automobile seemed a dozen times on the point of being stalled; but no -- she kept pluckily on to the summit.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mission of Janice Day] Reference

The thirty-six Boers clubbed their rifles and fought pluckily, but they were crowded together and could do little against our bayonets.    From Wordnik.com.  [With Methuen's Column on an Ambulance Train] Reference

The next evening we sent a small patrol across No Man's Land, which, being boldly and pluckily led, crept right up to the enemy's trenches.    From Wordnik.com.  [With the British Army in The Holy Land] Reference

In the midst of it all the worthy vicar was very pluckily holding an early celebration, and his bell was jangling out above the excitement.    From Wordnik.com.  [The War of the Worlds] Reference