Sentence examples for courageous expedition from inspiring English sources
The aide was Meriwether Lewis and the map was the product of his courageous expedition across the American frontier, all the way to the Pacific.
In his memoirs Mr Coubertin recalled the moment: "There was also the moving occasion when, at the foot of Mont Blanc, the medal for mountaineering was awarded to one of the leaders of the famous Mount Everest expedition, a courageous Englishman who, defeated but not discouraged, swore to leave it next time at the top of the highest summit in the Himalayas".
The transcendent act that follows, worthy of a member of an Arctic expedition and simultaneously a true work of art, takes the life of this courageous housemaid beyond her employers' whims and toward real fulfillment.
Nansen's reputation nevertheless survived; a hundred years after the expedition the British explorer Wally Herbert called the Fram voyage "one of the most inspiring examples of courageous intelligence in the history of exploration".
Chronicling Columbus's expeditions to the New World, Bergreen illuminates the complex motivations and historical circumstances that shaped this courageous but less than heroic figure.
Hubbard blamed the expedition's problems on the captain: "the ship's dour Captain Garfield proved himself far less than a Captain Courageous, requiring Ron Hubbard's hand at both the helm and the charts".
