heroic

• I don't know how it is, but in the capital they have no taste for the heroic, they will scarce look at a heroic picture; I am glad to hear that they have better taste in the provinces. —  Lavengro The Scholar - The Gypsy - The Priest, Vol. 1 (of 2)
• "I'll stick to the heroic," said the painter; "I now and then dabble in the comic, but what I do gives me no pleasure, the comic is so low; there is nothing like the heroic. —  Lavengro The Scholar - The Gypsy - The Priest, Vol. 1 (of 2)
• Mrs. Cedarquist and our friend Hartrath 'got up a subscription' to construct a figure of California--heroic size--out of dried apricots. —  The Octopus : A story of California
• It would have been a more heroic, and probably a safer course, to refuse the compromise and at once to bring on the struggle with the Government which she had to face in the end. —  Andrew Melville Famous Scots Series
• Because the most were heroic, and for the sake of that most, all Confederate soldiers wore the garland. —  The Long Roll

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