courageous

• This made them more courageous, and they ventured a little farther from the coast, but still no one dared to sail far out upon the Sea of Darkness COLUMBUS One day a man appeared in Portugal, who said he was certain that the earth was round, and that he could reach India by sailing westward. —  Discoverers and Explorers
• It makes the brave still more heroic; it makes the timid courageous, the sad joyful, the hardened tender. —  The Life of Duty, v. 2 A year's plain sermons on the Gospels or Epistles
• All that is courageous, all that is heroically devoted, Virginia expects and will receive from you." —  The Long Roll
• But he was cool and courageous, and had kept himself ready to go. —  The Long Roll
• Though a meek and humble man, Welsh was cool, courageous, and self-possessed, with, apparently, a dash of humour in him--as was evidenced by his preaching on one occasion in the middle of the frozen Tweed, so that either he "might shun giving offence to both nations, or that two kingdoms might dispute his crime The evening before the meeting at which Quentin and Peter unwittingly approached each other, Mr. Welsh found himself at a loss where to spend the night, for the bloodhounds were already on his track. —  Hunted and Harried

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