doughty

• He looked less like a doughty sea captain than any of that species Doc had ever seen Captain Stanhope did have the whopping voice of a windjammer master, however. —  008 - The Sargasso Ogre
• Thanks be to God, the fleet was loading In the drear autumn weather a cloud of sail went to the s'uth'ard--doughty little schooners, decks awash: beating up to the home ports XIX The FATE of The MAIL-BOAT DOCTOR My flag flapped a welcome in the sunny wind as the mail-boat came creeping through the Gate and with a great rattle and splatter dropped anchor in the basin off my father's wharf: for through my father's long glass I had from the summit of the Watchman long before spied the doctor aboard. —  Doctor Luke of the Labrador
• Still, she was uplifted, doughty, and proud. —  The Lion's Share
• 'Neath swords behold I flowing / through helmets plenteously the blood 1987 Lustily then cried he, / the warrior nobly born, That his voice rang loudly / like blast from bison's horn, That all around the palace / gave back the lusty sound; Unto the might of Dietrich / never limit yet was found 1988 When did hear King Gunther / how called the doughty man Above the storm of combat, / to hearken he began. —  The Nibelungenlied Translated into Rhymed English Verse in the Metre of the Original
• Herdegen, to be sure, was likewise famed in Nuremberg as a doughty champion; yet it is ever the way in Franconia, nay, and in all Germany, to esteem outlandish means more highly than the best at home. —  Margery — Complete

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