Sentence examples for it valiant from inspiring English sources

They're also compromised by the company they keep — especially Ward, whose drunken purchase of a kidnapped tribeswoman ("He had thought it valiant at the time") — threatens to mire him in a scandal involving cannibalism, slavery and torture.

There is plenty of agency here, much of it valiant, not least in Farrier's dogfights, but the focus is on the inflicted; aside from a few shadowy forms in the closing minutes, no Germans are visible at all.

As an excited Sussex Daily News put it: "Valiant soldiers of our great Indian dependency, after fighting so nobly for their King-Emperor, are now to be cared for in a Royal Palace in the greatest of British watering places.

In the context of political dissent at the time, the Stonehenge festival was a mere sideshow, but the government knew that its suppression would not cause offence to the general public, especially as most media outlets were prevailed upon to refrain from reporting on it (valiant exceptions were the Observer's Nick Davies and Kim Sabido for ITN).

Likely, if you tell them how crucial it is for them to be on time, they will at least give it a valiant effort.

It would not have been easy to find a substitute on short notice, so it was valiant of her to perform.

Lawrence Frank, about four inches shorter than his brothers, gave it a valiant effort.

Mr. Gerstein played it with valiant determination and to great effect.

It takes valiant dancers to tackle such an expansive repertory, and Mr. Taylor's strong, charismatic group is up to the task.

It was valiant effort from Antrim, who opened their campaign last weekend by drawing with Carlow.

Was it some valiant gesture of defiance against a fascist dehumanizing system, or was there cruelty and torture involved?