braveries

He could conquer disease and pain, but he never affected stoic "braveries," about not finding them very actual and disagreeable realities.

Dr. Johnson and His Circle John Cann Bailey 1897

The Dakotahs, with their high pointed buffalo skin tents, above the town, and their decorations and implements of flags, feathers, skins and personal "braveries," presented the scene of a Bedouin encampment.

Memoirs of 30 Years with the Indian Tribes on the American Frontiers Schoolcraft, H R 1851

Dakotahs, with their high pointed buffalo skin tents, above the town, and their decorations and implements of flags, feathers, skins and personal "braveries," presented the scene of a Bedouin encampment.

Personal Memoirs of a Residence of Thirty Years with the Indian Tribes on the American Frontiers Henry Rowe Schoolcraft 1828

"braveries" is sure to induce the utmost confidence in the highly useful occupants of Pigot's and Robson's Directory.

Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, October 30, 1841 Various

They did braveries large and small on behalf of our human family.

Ann Curry Wheaton Speech: 'Adversity Is Your Opportunity' (VIDEO) (FULL TEXT) 2010

They did braveries large and small on behalf of our human family.

Ann Curry Wheaton Speech: 'Adversity Is Your Opportunity' (VIDEO) (FULL TEXT) The Huffington Post News Team 2010

For the rest, he is one of the ruffling gallants of the time, like Howland Yorke, Stukely, and others, who wear out their fortunes, and endanger their lives, in idle braveries, in order that they may be esteemed the only choice gallants of the time; and afterwards endeavour to repair their estate, by engaging in the desperate plots and conspiracies which wiser heads have devised.

The Monastery 2008

Few dared say it at the time, but later the condemnation was to become savage, one critic thundering that “great sums were squandered away on braveries and vanities; On old rotten pictures, on broken-nosed Marble.”

The Dragon’s Trail Joanna Pitman 2006

Few dared say it at the time, but later the condemnation was to become savage, one critic thundering that “great sums were squandered away on braveries and vanities; On old rotten pictures, on broken-nosed Marble.”

The Dragon’s Trail Joanna Pitman 2006

Few dared say it at the time, but later the condemnation was to become savage, one critic thundering that “great sums were squandered away on braveries and vanities; On old rotten pictures, on broken-nosed Marble.”

The Dragon’s Trail Joanna Pitman 2006