hero

• When morning dawned, the hero was already awake and the morning-star had hardly risen in the sky ere he was up. —  Roumanian Fairy Tales
• 'Tis true, some ill-natured remarks appeared in one of the public papers, on the "conduct of coachmen entrusting the reins to young practitioners, and thus endangering the lives of his majesty's subjects;" but these passed off like other philanthropic suggestions of the day, unheeded and forgotten The next advance of our hero was an important step. —  Real Life In London, Volumes I. and II. Or, The Rambles And Adventures Of Bob Tallyho, Esq., And His Cousin, The Hon. Tom Dashall, Through The Metropolis; Exhibiting A Living Picture Of Fashionable Characters, Manners, And Amusements In High And Low Life (1821)
• His treatment of the hero is as far from the classical spirit as anything which William Morris wrote. —  Victorian Worthies Sixteen Biographies
• Thus, in "Ernest Bracebridge," an English story of school-life, the hero is a dreadfully unpleasant boy who is always successful and always right, and we are soon heartily weary of him. —  The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 28, February, 1860
• The men did assume that he and his party had departed and they commenced talking, and our hero was at hand to overhear them talk. —  Cad Metti, The Female Detective Strategist Dudie Dunne Again in the Field

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