Valorous

Still, so greatly did the government desire the success of the enterprise, that a little later on the same day the "Valorous" was ordered to take the place of the "Susquehanna" in the telegraph fleet.

Great Fortunes and How They Were Made McCabe, Jr James D 1887

Still, so greatly did the government desire the success of the enterprise, that a little later on the same day the "Valorous" was ordered to take the place of the "Susquehanna" in the telegraph fleet.

Great Fortunes, and How They Were Made James Dabney McCabe 1862

Astride Valorous, dressed only in a cloak and a muddy tunic for the long road, Bayard led us free of the marshes.

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Bayard rode at the lead of our party, flamboyant on Valorous.

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Agion was literally prancing like a colt, back and forth between Valorous and the pack mare.

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The water bubbled as Agion and I stepped over it, then calmed to a few narrowing ripples, then bubbled and boiled again as Bayard reined Valorous around it.

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There was still no sign of the ogre, so he and I climbed an enormous, sloping array of rocks that peaked above the trail, leaving Valorous and the pack mare behind in the care of Agion.

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Valorous, remembering no doubt the encounter two nights ago, had passed beyond skittish to lathered and twitchy, evidently having his fill of unequal contests.

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Finally, Bayard stood pieced together before me, and I boosted him back atop Valorous.

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That morning and that afternoon he urged on a flagging Valorous, moving through ragged countryside as though we were cavalryor worse, scouts for a band of nomadic raiders.

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