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Usage examples of courage.

The Adar felt as if he had gone deaf in his heart and mind, and he struggled to maintain his courage.

It was a fresh proof to me of the courage of the Afrikander, who indeed, in my judgment, is in that quality surpassed by no one.

The Aleut Indian hunters, who had become panic-stricken, gradually regained sufficient courage again to follow the Russians eastward.

Nowere it that, Alypia had the decency, and the courage, to tell him to his face.

A part of me wanted to tear a good deal of her hair out, but another part of me recognized that Artemisia was a person of exceptional talent and courage, and moreover she was offering what I so much needed: help.

So when the mead courage finally came on him, he leaned near Aspar White.

As the smell was like the smell of the bakeshop near home, and as the doughnuts looked the same, David instantly plucked up courage.

Caecilia Metella Balearica had saved two seats which no one quite had the courage to usurp.

They had been foiled hi then: attempt to kill Colonel Baraka by his undaunted courage in facing down his attackers.

He looked round the barroom with rather an anxious air, and, retreating with his valuables to the warmest corner, disposed them under his chair, sat down, and looked rather apprehensively up at the worthy whose heels illustrated the end of the mantel-piece, who was spitting from right to left, with a courage and energy rather alarming to gentlemen of weak nerves and particular habits.

Among the events of that disastrous night, the heroic, or rather desperate, courage of John, one of the principal officers of Basiliscus, has rescued his name from oblivion.

Abu Batn against Zveri was rooted deeply in his inherent racial antipathy for Europeans and their religion, and its growth was stimulated by the aspersions which the Russian had cast upon the courage of the Aarab and his followers.

That bitch of a Beata would have succeeded, too, had I not had the foresight and the courage to bide my time and watch for my opportunity.

He begs them, if he be taken, to return him whatever may be in his cell, but if he succeed he gives the whole to Francis Soradaci, who is still a captive for want of courage to escape, not like me preferring liberty to life.

He had given Bids courage to face all the trouble she had at that time.