Sentence examples for his valour from inspiring English sources

Hal further proves his valour in battle, where he chides Falstaff for malingering and drunkenness and then kills Hotspur in personal combat during the Battle of Shrewsbury.

This dichotomy explains the mixed appreciations of Alexander in the play, for he is often praised for his valour but also criticized especially by his love interest, Cléofile for his lust for personal glory.

The Kerry campaign has produced a raft of its own veterans supporting the Massachusetts senator's version of events.Mr Kerry's supporters point to the fact that several of the anti-Kerry Swiftvets have praised his valour effusively in the past.

Beamer was expected to do more than vouch for her husband as a "winner"; she was asked to say that his valour made her feel better about losing him, that she took pride in his sacrifice.

Henceforth, participation in public affairs became the supreme occupation engaging the ambition of Greek man; it was no longer in athletics and elegant leisure activities that his valour, his desire to assert himself and to triumph, would find expression but rather in political action.

The martial Sikh – no one could doubt his valour or patriotism – had taken up, if not the ploughshare, then the latest fertiliser (although a disproportionately large number of soldiers in the Indian army were and are Sikh), and achieved successes on farmland comparable to battles fought and won.

The ferocity of his acting was all part of his intellectual valour; he loved debating at school and university, and could stand up and argue with anyone, usually having the last word.

Naturally, the film inspired by his story, Sully, does its best to point up his extraordinary valour on that day; this is the guy who, after all, walked up and down a rapidly sinking plane not once but twice in an effort to make sure no one remained on board before he cut the life rafts loose.

His conspicuous valour in the victorious sea fight with the Persians at Salamis (480) led soon to his election as strategus one of Athens' 10 annual war ministers and generals and he was apparently reelected every year until his ostracism in 461.

258 Rome, Italy Saint Lawrence, Lawrence also spelled Laurence (died 258, Rome [Italy]; feast day August 10) one of the most venerated Roman martyrs, celebrated for his Christian valour.

His martial valour (and patrician snobbery) are less appreciated in the battlefield of politics, when he runs for consul at the urging of his mother, Volumnia (splendidly played, with steely ambition couched in soft tones, by Vanessa Redgrave in a military greatcoat).