spirit-stirring

In his account of the harrowing trip, "Voyaging: Southward From the Strait of Magellan," the woodcuts lavishly distributed through the story conspire with his bravura prose to refresh the derivation of "straitened" circumstances and convey the "spirit-stirring glamour of the terrible."

Fury and Terror On the High Seas Geoffrey Wolff 2011

“The announcement of this result by the CHAIR,” reported the Union, “was followed by … the members of the various delegations almost universally springing to their feet, and uniting in one spirit-stirring shout of approbation.”

A Country of Vast Designs Robert W. Merry 2009

“The announcement of this result by the CHAIR,” reported the Union, “was followed by … the members of the various delegations almost universally springing to their feet, and uniting in one spirit-stirring shout of approbation.”

A Country of Vast Designs Robert W. Merry 2009

The blast had something in its tone spirit-stirring and yet melancholy, partaking both of the character of a point of war, and of the doleful sounds which might be chosen to announce an execution of peculiar solemnity.

Count Robert of Paris 2008

This old world Oriental song is spirit-stirring as a “blast of that dread horn,” albeit the words be thin.

The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

There is the old Faneuil Hall, which once echoed to the stormy arguments and spirit-stirring harangues of the leaders of the Revolution.

The Englishwoman in America 2007

How gallantly the train dashed toward the robbers, to the spirit-stirring roll of the snare-drum.

Our Mr. Wrenn 2004

The grand events of a spirit-stirring war; occurrences likely to impress themselves, as the mystical legends of former times had done, upon their memory; besides which,

The Iliad of Homer 2003

Secondly, there is a music far more spirit-stirring in harshness than in softness: the languages of

Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah and Meccah 2003

The grand events of a spirit-stirring war; occurrences likely to impress themselves, as the mystical legends of former times had done, upon their memory; besides which,

The Odyssey of Homer 2003