lionhearted

• Even the most lionhearted among us would probably take issue with rocketing down a serpentine ice chute flat on your back at 60 miles an hour, with nothing between you and eternity but a helmet and a Lycra suit. —  Nashuatelegraph.com local, state, business and sports news
• It is a wild, untamable place, full of lionhearted boys. —  Complete Letters of Mark Twain
• And for that we honor and remember Sen. Ted Kennedy, the lionhearted Democrat from Massachusetts. " —  wbur.org
• Brave and handsome young men were rescuing distressed damsels, beautiful as they were wealthy; bloody pirates and swarthy murderers were being foiled by quaint spoken backwoodsmen, who carried unerring rifles; gallant but blundering Irishmen, speaking the most delightful brogue, and making the funniest mistakes, were daily thwarting cool and determined villains; bold tars were encountering fearful sea perils; lionhearted adventurers were cowing and quelling whole tribes of barbarians; magicians were casting spells, misers hoarding gold, scientists making astonishing discoveries, poor and unknown boys achieving wealth and fame at a single bound, hidden mysteries coming to light, and so the world was going on, making reams of history with each diurnal revolution, and furnishing boundless material for the most delightful books. —  Andersonville
• Indeed, thou spokest to me in the night words such as are spoken of none but magnanimous cavaliers and lionhearted warriors; and now thy life is in my hand. —  The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night, Volume II

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