How To Use Valiant In A Sentence

In this high opinion of his own rank, he was greatly fortified by his ideas of the military profession, which, in his phrase, made a valiant cavalier a camarade to an emperor. A Legend of Montrose
But surely, I say, there are some people blessed with sunny dispositions - it doesn't necessarily mean they're valiantly trying to stop themselves from sliding into despair.
Indeed, he made valiant efforts to conceal this information. Christianity Today
The valiant one and his noble steed hiked up to the hill where the castle was.
To his admirers, and they are legion, the glabrous Ailes is something else entirely — a valiant freedom-fighter standing up to the perfidious liberal media elite. Meet the fantastic Mr Fox

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At the same time three muskets were discharged; and while one ball rattled against the corslet of proof, to the strength of which our valiant Captain had been more than once indebted for his life, another penetrated the armour which covered the front of his left thigh, and stretched him on the ground. A Legend of Montrose
Chops, our de facto Kiwi skipper and engineer, makes another valiant attempt to get it going with the starter cord.
He faced the enemy valiantly , shuned no difficulties and dangers and would not hesitate to lay down his life if need be.
It's a valiant attempt that doesn't quite deliver. The Sun
Heroes prove valiant in battle but fickle as lovers. Times, Sunday Times
Apparently, he had made a valiant effort to turn the whole thing into a classroom.
He cannot, as it were, imagine his manly project without an enemy, and oddly enough, the woman reader stands in for this enemy — literally, the effeminated reader rather than the female one — instead of standing in for the ennabling reader, she who urges the knight onward or who needs to be rescued by his valiant acts. Wordsworths Balladry: Real Men Wanted
Myles proved to be a valiant soldier and was awarded two Papal emblems, a medal and a cross at the end of the war.
A valiant man’s look is more than a coward’s sword.
They made a valiant attempt to avoid capture, but were forced to give themselves up because his friend was too badly injured to go on.
Thomas Belfort, a right valiant capteine, and therewith returned into Chronicles (3 of 6): Historie of England (1 of 9) Henrie IV
A valiant man’s look is more than a coward’s sword.
Despite valiant efforts by the finance minister, inflation rose to 36%.
A coward considers difficulties as a heavy burden on his back,but a valiant fighter turns difficulties into a stepping-stone for his advance.
Shamsie's attempt to explain political upheaval through interlocking lives is broad-minded, clear-sighted, even valiant. Burnt Shadows: Summary and book reviews of Burnt Shadows by Kamila Shamsie.
A coward considers difficulties as a heavy burden on his back,but a valiant fighter turns difficulties into a stepping-stone for his advance.
He and his board have struggled valiantly to keep the club going, despite facing major obstacles.
You hold henceforth in your hand the handjar of our nation, as already, for what you have done in your valiant rescue of our beloved Voivodin, your breast holds the heart of our people. The Lady of the Shroud
We have in the "Battle of Maldon" a great patriotic poem, written about the "ealdorman" [H] of the East Angles, Byrthnoth, or Brihtnoth, who stood so valiantly against the Danes. Our Catholic Heritage in English Literature of Pre-Conquest Days
His dress comported with his character, for he had almost as much brass and copper without, as nature had stored away within — His coat was crossed and slashed, and carbonadoed, with stripes of copper lace, and swathed round the body with a crimson sash, of the size and texture of a fishing net, doubtless to keep his valiant heart from bursting through his ribs. A History of New York
Antiquity to angling is like social position to the gentleman:I would rather prove myself a gentleman, by being learned and humble, valiant and inoffensive, virtuous and communicable, than by any fond ostentation of riches, or, wanting those virtues myself, boast that these were in my ancestors; and yet I grant, that where a noble and ancient descent and such merit meet in any man, it is a double dignification of that person. . . The ideal of the gentleman
I meant to say that Robin Hanson is valiantly battling against the bias that distorts the search for objective truth. Robin Hanson Video, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
The word ‘hunk’, which was slipping from everyday usage, staged a valiant comeback.
They bravely endured these tempests and continued to fight valiantly across the turbid depths to reach their goal…
Come, valiant sir," said Wamba, "I must be your armourer as well as your equerry -- - I have dismounted you, and now I will unhelm you. Ivanhoe. A Romance
Assure his wife and valiant companion of my deepfelt sympathy. Messages to America
The Novartis team put up a valiant fight, but admit defeat.
However, they turned it up to the next level, staging a valiant comeback attempt, only to fall short, losing 6-4.
Despite valiant efforts by the finance minister, inflation rose to 36%.
The signal lights blinking only amber meant that one hapless policeman made a valiant effort to control traffic which seemed to swamp him from all directions.
Distressed Duenna, on whose behalf I bear a message to your highness, which is that your magnificence will be pleased to grant her leave and permission to come and tell you her trouble, which is one of the strangest and most wonderful that the mind most familiar with trouble in the world could have imagined; but first she desires to know if the valiant and never vanquished knight, Don Don Quixote
The Hebrew term, "strong," or "valiant," is applied to bulls (Ps 22: 12). Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
Toward the end of this well-written and perhaps unintentionally self-revealing memoir, Tony Blair, who was Britain's prime minister during an eventful decade from 1997 to 2007, insists he is "trying valiantly not to fall into self-justifying mode -- a bane of political memoirs. Tony Blair's fierce defense of his political life
For though he knew there would be many a brave onfall and stout bickering, yet, as Sir Lancelot had become the most valiant knight in all the island of Britain, the king had greatly desired that the knight should show how he excelled all the doughty warriors that would come from all parts. King Arthur's Knights The Tales Re-told for Boys & Girls
Chops, our de facto Kiwi skipper and engineer, makes another valiant attempt to get it going with the starter cord.
The valiant never tastes of death but once.
He was a successor, it has been conceived, of the Counts of Paris, by whom the city was valiantly defended against the Normans, and an ancestor of Hugh Capet. Count Robert of Paris
The few warriors in the camp used their horses for breastworks, standing behind them when they were on their feet, and lying down behind them after they were shot down.11 In the midst of the struggle, the white soldiers found themselves under attack from fifteen or so dogs from the Indian camp, who tried valiantly to defend their Indian masters. EMPIRE OF THE SUMMER MOON
Forty fire trucks and 440 firefighters valiantly fought the blaze for three hours.
Jones was formally honored by the King, presented with a gold-hilted sword, engraved, Jones happily recorded, “with these extremely flattering words: Vindicati Maris Ludovicus XVI remunerator Strenua Vindici reward from Louis XVI to the valiant avenger of the rights of the sea.” John Paul Jones
“Come, valiant sir,” said Wamba, “I must be your armourer as well as your equerry — I have dismounted you, and now I will unhelm you.” Ivanhoe
There were many others, some known heroes, others whose valiant deeds are written on the scroll of life. ONE HUNDRED DAYS
Duffey came third last year in a valiant attempt to topple De Beer, who recorded a hat-trick of victories.
He thought that he would be rewarded for valiant actions with a hero's welcome when he returned to shore.
Her pain is a reminder of the very dangerous but important job our troops are doing and their valiant efforts to bring peace to Afghanistan. The Sun
Tarr threw himself in front of a train in a valiant effort to save the child.
We warred fiercely and valiantly, but I now question the honor in all that if it wiped out a village in the process—which many times it did. Surrender the Dark
The sagaman consults poetical justice very well at first, and prepares us for an unfortunate end by depicting Grettir as, though valiant and in a way not ungenerous, yet not merely an incorrigible scapegrace, but somewhat unamiable and even distinctly ferocious. The Flourishing of Romance and the Rise of Allegory (Periods of European Literature, vol. II)
However, handling errors among the backs saw a couple of early and valiant moves end in loss of possession, as the ball slithered and slipped through fingers.
I'm afraid that those who might be snowed by the report's valiant attempt to pass off hope for potential are few.
His arsonous rhetoric against Israel so blinded the attentions in its blaze that no one could see the valiant journalists and intellectuals who were arrested for criticizing him for diverting much needed funds at home to Hamas and Hezballah. Roya Hakakian: The Feast and Famine of Iran Coverage in U.S. Media
This ardent nature awoke fire beneath the ashes; the proud bearing of the Indian suited the chivalric hidalgo; and then, weary of the Spanish nobles, in whom he no longer had confidence, disgusted with the selfish mestizoes, who wished to aggrandize themselves at his expense, he took a pleasure in turning to that primitive race, who have disputed so valiantly the American soil with the soldiers of Pizarro. The Pearl of Lima A Story of True Love
This will reduce the number of latch-key kids, reduce loitering and crime on the streets and decrease the stress on mothers who try valiantly to juggle jobs, while at the same time looking after and raising a family.
They are men of honor, bold in emprise, valiant and fierce as hawks, but well-spoken, gentlemen first and last. INTERVIEW: John C. Wright
Tarr threw himself in front of a train in a valiant effort to save the child.
On two occasions, Kansas City valiantly rallied from a two-touchdown deficit to the game into overtime.
Hastily formed forces like the U. S. Army's Task Force Smith resisted valiantly, but the infantry was overrun in desperate rearguard battles.
That is a valiant attempt to legitimize the doctrine of common origin, but the logic on which it is based is, I think, fallacious.
Sunday's match was a thriller from the start of play as opposing teams engaged in a valiant tussle for ball possession.
Her husband was ‘pot-valiant,’ he feared her not at the moment, nor had he then much reason, for she instantly turned the whole force of her anger another way. Maria; or The Wrongs of Woman
The singer feigns ignorance, and makes a valiant if contradictory effort to keep up appearances.
As always, there are a few, valiant individual journalists doing their best.
But ere he could reach the arrased doorway, Prince Charles sprang to his side and cried, valiantly: "Nay then, if he goes so do I! The Children's Book of Christmas Stories
Indeed, he made valiant efforts to conceal this information. Christianity Today
Santos, who'd earned his title bid this past June with a knockout of DREAM champion Marius Zaromskis, valiantly tried to stop the onslaught. SI.com
The valiant "mynheer," whose courage, by means of schnapps, had been screwed up to the sticking point, made all sail after the enemy, and caused a double portion of the stimulating article to be served out to his crew. Jack in the Forecastle or, Incidents in the Early Life of Hawser Martingale
The wild-dog was maturer than Jerry, larger-bodied, and wiser in wickedness; but Jerry was blue-blooded, right-selected, and valiant. CHAPTER III
Whilst they were thus speculating on the issue of the rencounter the valiant bonnet maker began to pull up Jezabel, in order that the smith, who he still concluded was close behind, might overtake him, and either advance first or at least abreast of himself. The Fair Maid of Perth
Over the past year, however, digitally animated films have begun to show an assembly line quality, and Valiant represents a new low.
I suspect she made a shaky but valiant attempt. Times, Sunday Times
Thirdly, in order to show us an example of patience by valiantly bearing up against human passibility and defects. Summa Theologica, Part III (Tertia Pars) From the Complete American Edition
Ivey's gradual meltdown from confident banterer to disheveled mutterer is valiantly limned, layered with dozens of revealing looks signaling fear and frustration.
Whereupon Salih arose and, kissing the ground a second time, said, “O King of the Age, my errand is to Allah and the magnanimous liege lord and the valiant lion, the report of whose good qualities the caravans far and near have dispread and whose renown for benefits and beneficence and clemency and graciousness and liberality to all climes and countries hath sped.” The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
Every dog is valiant at his own door.
If again, it was not well cut, he would answer, I spake not true: this is called the reproof valiant: if again, it was not well cut, he would say, I lie: this is called the countercheck quarrelsome: and so to the lie circumstantial, and the lie direct. Act V. Scene IV. As You Like It
In the Centurion there were in all, of men and boyes, fourtie and eight, who together fought most valiantly, and so galled the enemie, that many a braue and lustie Spaniard lost his life in that place. The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation
This revival does include valiant attempts at ignition. Times, Sunday Times
a valiant attempt to prevent the hijack
Some liberals have been majoritarians with a limited concern for the rights of minorities; some conservatives have been valiant defenders of the liberties of conscience and expression.
Despite a decided lack of knowledge of the rules of the sport they played a valiant game.
Whether his characters were villainous or valiant, serious or comedic, his secret lay in his ability to immerse himself in a role. Times, Sunday Times
All about the house, with its numerous corners, turrets, gussets, and corbie-stepped gables, the fury of the world rose and wandered, the fury that never rests but is ever somewhere round the ancient universe, jibing night and morning at man's most valiant effort. John Splendid The Tale of a Poor Gentleman, and the Little Wars of Lorn
A cock is valiant on his own dunghill.
I could tell she was making a valiant attempt to join in the rambunctious merrymaking with the rowdy crowd.
The national "tire-valiant" is a galeated crest not unlike the cuirassier's helmet, and the hair, trained from the sides into a high ridge running along the cranium, not unfrequently projects far beyond the forehead. Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo Volume 1
Hudson's Bay Company, who took his captivity mighty ill and grew prodigious pot-valiant over his cups. Heralds of Empire Being the Story of One Ramsay Stanhope, Lieutenant to Pierre Radisson in the Northern Fur Trade
Or this, further, it may represent, in striking and inspiring way, -- that the pure in heart shall win the victories in life; that the guileless are the valiant sons of God; that the heart that resists evil passion and is touched by pity for the world's woe is the heart that reincarnates the passionate purity of the Christ and can reveal again the healing power, the Holy Grail of God. Parsifal A Mystical Drama By Richard Wagner Retold In The Spirit Of The Bayreuth Interpretation
Every dog is valiant at his own door.
Going down one in a valiant effort to make such a game is good bridge. Times, Sunday Times
The third made him a national hero: he died fighting valiantly to win a world championship. Times, Sunday Times
If any man behaue himselfe valiantly in the fielde, to the contentation of the The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation
However, they turned it up to the next level, staging a valiant comeback attempt, only to fall short, losing 6-4.
Poor Churchill seems a lost cause, so leashed to the animal that he'll never escape, no matter how valiantly he fights on, but could he help a lonely young widow in the House of Commons library? Book World: 'Mr. Chartwell' reviewed by Ron Charles
Imagine how I'd tell you of my valiant attempts to fight off her amorous advances!
Despite valiant efforts by the finance minister, inflation rose to 36%.
Bethink you, I am now the shell of five mint-juleps plus, and am pot-valiant. The Flirt
You had musty victual, and he hath holp to eat it: he is a very valiant trencherman; he hath an excellent stomach. Much Ado About Nothing
Despite a valiant production, the end result leaves you feeling more than a little queasy. Times, Sunday Times
In the meane time, the people called Silures, being a verie fierce kind of men, and valiant, prepared to make warre against the Romans, for they might not be bowed neither with roughnesse, nor yet with any courteous handling, so that they were to be tamed by an armie of legionarie souldiers to be brought among them. Chronicles (1 of 6): The Historie of England (4 of 8) The Fovrth Booke Of The Historie Of England
It's billed as the simple tale of an Australian political superhero and his valiant battles with assorted mugs, dummies, gutless spivs, clowns, fools and scumbags.
And there's no honour, Merthyr, in a ghost's fighting, because he's shotproof; so I won't say what the valiant disembodied 'I' may do by-and-by. Vittoria — Volume 8
Manserd de Bos a valiant capteine was taken, and shortlie after put to death, as diuerse other were which the Burgognians bought of the Chronicles (3 of 6): Historie of England (1 of 9) Henrie IV
Your valiant efforts could be a waste of energy. The Sun
Despite valiant efforts from the cast, the two hours that follow it prove to be nothing more than a descent into the quicksand of mediocrity.
An excellent discourse whereof, as likewise of the honourable expedition vnder two of the most noble and valiant peeres of this Realme, I meane the renoumed Erle of Essex, and the right honorable the lord Charles Howard, lord high Admirall of England, made 1596. vnto the strong citie of Cadiz, I haue set downe as a double epiphonema to conclude this my first volume withall. The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 01
A combination of cowboy and knight-errant, the charro is valiant and skillful. Charreada in Guadalajara
After a valiant effort to change recipes to milliliters, cookbooks have gone back to the old cups and teaspoons.
Despite the valiant efforts of members of the public and medical staff he died several hours later at Princess Alexandra Hospital, from multiple stab wounds.
The military orders, and the knights under King John put up a valiant defense and saved what they could of the army.
Despite a valiant production, the end result leaves you feeling more than a little queasy. Times, Sunday Times
The valiant never tastes of death but once.
Every dog is valiant at his won door.
Valiant men, forsooth, shall arise in the beginning of these evil times, but though they shall die as ye shall, yet shall not their deaths be fruitful as yours shall be; because ye, forsooth, are fighting against villeinage which is waning, but they shall fight against usury which is waxing. A Dream of John Ball and a King's Lesson
Poictou subdued the strong fortresse of Tailbourg, which was iudged before that time, inexpugnable: but earle Richard oppressed them that kept it so sore with streight siege, that first in a desperate mood they issued foorth, and assailed his people verie valiantlie, but yet neuerthelesse they were beaten backe, and forced to retire into their fortresse, which finallie they surrendred into the hands of earle Chronicles of England, Scotland and Ireland (2 of 6): England (5 of 12) Henrie the Second
Indeed, he made valiant efforts to conceal this information. Christianity Today
Mark Bahnisch continues to struggle valiantly against his blogging addiction, but with less than complete success.
One of those two points, the narrow yet yawning gap that separated the teams at the end, was scored by centre-forward Brian O'Meara, and he too paid fulsome tribute to the valiant vanquished.
The 20-page text makes a valiant attempt to comprehend wildfowl biology.
The government is making a valiant attempt to reduce our deficit. Times, Sunday Times
It is the very definition of chivalry, with its valiant knights and adoring maidens. Times, Sunday Times
Master Tressilian, I shall proceed, maugre all the gibes and quips of this valiant soldier, who, peradventure, hath had more cuffs than crowns in the Kenilworth
Still, valiant little CW soldiered on, issuing a statement saying, "VD simply stands for Vampire Diaries and anyone who thinks otherwise should probably get themselves checked out. Creator bares all to try to save MTV's 'Skins': It's 'intensely moral'
Reveries of former felicity are interrupted by the sight of a valiant little vessel ploughing towards us through choppy seas.
Her career had been marked by close defeats and valiant efforts.
It is gloom and doom at many tracks but the little Lake District track deserves a medal for its valiant efforts. The Sun
She paused as the words made a valiant effort to penetrate her mind.
That first-half lead was protected by some valiant defending, not least from the impressive Richard Dunne.
The company has made a valiant effort/attempt in the last two years to make itself more efficient.
Her valiant efforts to bond are universally misunderstood. Times, Sunday Times
Many valiant efforts to raise their visibility and sharpen accountability have failed. Times, Sunday Times
An nonconformist can be valiant, effective and pleasant, provided that he hasn't fallen into the conformism of being nonconformist, which is the worst kind of conformism. Saying The Right Thing
Before they could reach the Ghul, the enemy had slain his steed and taken him prisoner; but they ceased not to charge the Infidels, till the day grew dark for dust and eyes were blinded, and the sharp sword clanged while firm stood the valiant cavalier and destruction overtook the faint-heart in his fear; till the Moslems were amongst the Paynims like a white patch on a black bull. — The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
a valiant soldier
Next Morning our generous and valiant Friend brought us to a certain Place on the Sea − shoar, where he knew the Carcass of an old Vessel lay, in a Creek between two Rocks, which was the same that had brought him thither, for he was not a Native of that Country. Exilius
The rhetoric of Knighthood located individual Knights of Columbus within an unbroken lineage of valiant Christian knights, and specifically valorized the Catholic component of chivalrous manhood.
He valiantly discards this safety net, daring readers to untangle the clues ahead of the police.
Motley Fool has an interesting analysis of American Greetings, the old-line greeting-card company that's making a valiant attempt at surviving the digital age.
They gathered behind walls or flickered across the open in shouting masses, and were pot-valiant in artillery. Life's Handicap
With the perverseness which is often seen among women, she had placed her affections upon a youth who had distinguished himself by no valiant deeds in war, nor by industry or dexterity in the chase. Folk-Lore and Legends: North American Indian
In this case, the higher powers are film censors, whether philistine Senators or the timorous, arbitrary ethicists of the MPAA, valiantly guarding us from ourselves.
_Stow_ in his _Annals_, calleth him, a most valiant and towardly Gentleman. The Lives of the Most Famous English Poets (1687)
Every dog is valiant at his won door.
She made a valiant attempt to laugh.
The valiant never tastes of death but once.
Nevertheless, in the mid-nineties, valiant attempts were made to give geoengineering a good name.
Trying valiantly to continue an upward trend towards 6,000, but constantly being hauled into another dip. Times, Sunday Times
Despite valiant efforts by the finance minister, inflation rose to 36%.
Indeed, the ballad of "Flodden" says he came for it; but the valiant and chivalrous king would give him no reward but that which he said every traitor deserved -- a rope. Northumberland Yesterday and To-day
At the time of the famine, he made valiant efforts to stop his tenantry starving.
Despite a valiant production, the end result leaves you feeling more than a little queasy. Times, Sunday Times
For I know thee no battle-blencher, but a valiant man of thine hands. The Story of Sigurd the Volsung and the Fall of the Niblungs
While they have valiantly tried to make the incarceration more tolerable by painting murals and flags on the outside walls, by planting gardens and decorating their airless rooms, nothing can disguise the palpable air of despair.
I realise that he likes the tortured martyr parts in which he valiantly combats the treacherous world that seeks to subdue him.
Redoubted > Doughty, valiant, redoubtable deraign > {Challenge; fight a contest in order to settle a dispute} 3 And clash their shields, and shake their swords on high, The Faerie Queene — Volume 01
The national “tire-valiant” is a galeated crest not unlike the cuirassier’s helmet, and the hair, trained from the sides into a high ridge running along the cranium, not unfrequently projects far beyond the forehead. Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo
Nothing can shake the Federals, who, at nightfall, valiantly led by Gen.
But in revenge for this the sons of the king, when Parasurama was away, returned to the hermitage and slew the pious and unresisting sage Jamadagni, who called fruitlessly for succour on his valiant son. The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India - Volume IV of IV Kumhar-Yemkala
The tiger before a _stronger_ foe -- flies: the tiger is not what we call valiant, only fierce and cruel. Sartor Resartus, and On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History
The valiant Bhimasena, clad in mail, received those warriors rushing quickly at him from among the unslain remnant of that ocean of troops. The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 3 Books 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12
He and his board have struggled valiantly to keep the club going, despite facing major obstacles.
Instead of taking that defeatist attitude, I prefer to valiantly soldier on and find new music that's 100 times more psychedelic or mind-bending.
The exhortation is ironical, as in Jer 46: 4, 9. 15. thy valiant men -- manuscripts, the Septuagint, and Vulgate read, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
Her arms flailed up and around in a desperate and truly valiant bid to keep her seat.
Every dog is valiant at his won door.
With them was Bacchus, a mongrel dog who won the hearts of the crew and was rewarded in 1943 with a National Canine Defence League valiant dog medal.
They bickered constantly and sniped at each other with abrasive, even caustic, jibes, but Drake made a valiant effort to stop himself short of physical violence.
Although Vic made a valiant effort to overtake the leaders, he fell short by a few points.
He was called a valiant and a hardy man and did so much by his prowess, that under the banner of the earl of Moray he did such valiantness in arms, that the Scots had marvel thereof, and so was slain in fighting: the Scots would gladly have taken him alive, but he would never yield, he hoped ever to have been rescued. Chronicle and Romance (The Harvard Classics Series)
This is a replica Aichi Val dive bomber, a type used during Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor, built from a Vultee BT-15 trainer, a re-engined version of the BT-13 Valiant .
My previous attempt at the record was a valiant attempt to drive the car while tied up by one leg.
-- There is nothing valiant or solid to be hoped for from such as are always kempt and perfumed, and every day smell of the tailor; the exceedingly curious that are wholly in mending such an imperfection in the face, in taking away the morphew in the neck, or bleaching their hands at midnight, gumming and bridling their beards, or making the waist small, binding it with hoops, while the mind runs at waste; too much pickedness is not manly. Discoveries Made Upon Men and Matter and Some Poems
Gentleman, by being learned and humble, valiant and inoffensive, vertuous and communicable, then by a fond ostentation of riches; or (wanting these Vertues my self) boast that these were in my Ancestors; [And yet I confesse, that where a noble and ancient Descent and such Merits meet in any man, it is a double dignification of that person:] and so, if this The Compleat Angler
At least that's the thesis of Valiant, a new animated film from Disney that foregrounds the sacrifices of those brave birds in its unconventional retelling of that terrible conflict.
But this is a valiant attempt to persuade us we ought to have done. Times, Sunday Times
She knew that there was nothing heroic or obviously dramatic in it, no magic of rare hours, nor valiant challenge, but it seemed to her that she was of some significance because she was commonplaceness, the ordinary life of the age, made articulate and protesting. Main Street
Again, He tells us: "_The kingdom of heaven suffereth violence, and the violent bear it away_," that is to say, _the valiant, the energetic, and persevering_, will alone succeed in securing it; for the words _bear away_ express the action of one that seizes a prey. Serious Hours of a Young Lady
As if I was somehow oblivious to the fact that he had to pick and dig and drill and scrape away at my tooth as it valiantly clung to my gums.
The result was that in the end the Valiant Soldier, of the Christian army, was distinguished by no peculiarity of accoutrement from the Turkish Knight; and what was worse, on a casual view Saint George himself might be mistaken for his deadly enemy, the Saracen. The Return of the Native
Indeed, he made valiant efforts to conceal this information. Christianity Today
a foolish overvaliant act
Logic, most valiant, is unafraid of all the monsters of the earthly dream. Chapter 36
Whereon (laugh not, reader, for it was the fashion of those musical as well as valiant days) up rose that noble old favorite of good Queen Bess, from cornet and sackbut, fife and drum; while Westward Ho!
In what can only be called a valiant effort, Sarah Palin has defended her monetary policy remarks from the Wall Street Journal's pointed criticism. Palin Lashes Out At WSJ Reporter, Misquotes Story
Turcoplier of England, chiefe captaine of the succours of the sayd posterne of England, a valiant man and hardy: and in holding of it he was slaine with the stroke of a hand-gunne, which was great damage. The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation
Corked glasses of wine are valiantly defended, and the diner is implied to be trying to cheat the restaurant.
There be some pot-valiant braggarts that defy the law. Lords of the North
Robyn had fought her illness so valiantly, amazing doctors and others with her fortitude over and over again.
And Moses called Josue, and said to him before all Israel: Take courage, and be valiant: for thou shalt bring this people into the land which the Lord swore he would give to their fathers, and thou shalt divide it by lot. The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 05: Deuteronomy The Challoner Revision
However, while the EU has been valiantly trying to appear to be neutral in the Middle East conflict, the funding is a ripe area for confusion.
Besides, wise elder, there is thine errand to see to; and if I be the God of Love, as thou sayest, I must not keep thee and thy valiant fellows languishing mateless; so with thy leave I will now depart, that I may send you a score of fair damsels for your company. The Water of the Wondrous Isles
Edward the third, lyeth buried at a certaine towne, in the countie of Somerset, commonly called Stoke vnder Hamden: who deceased in the 96. yeare of his age: and that (as it is manifest by the inscription of his monument) after he had valiantly behaued himselfe at the siege of Algizer against the Sarazens, and at the battailes of Benamazin, of Sluce, of Cressie, of Ingenos, of The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation
But they died together as brothers-in-arms, fighting valiantly for a vital cause. The Sun
Two miles over muddy roads and rice "paddies" is not an easy march for a young man, but when a valiant gentleman of sixty summers covers the distance at Bamboo Tales
The military orders, and the knights under King John put up a valiant defense and saved what they could of the army.
Nevertheless, it's more than likely that their valiant efforts will be in vain.

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