Examples of valour

• From a young age, boys were encouraged to cultivate the virtues of the warrior ethic, including stoicism, valour, and fortitude.

• For the idea that duelling arose from ' small things ' implied that the notions of valour, insult, and honour of the duelling theory were chimerical.

• Having attained the love of the lion, he performs his knightly duties in a way that underlines not his 'knightly valour', but his 'true service'.

• Having proved their valour before their plays begin, they demonstrate on the stage their inability to transpose martial or political prowess into the domestic sphere.

• They rejected the idea that a challenge constituted the best means of asserting one 's valour and fortitude, and thus of maintaining one 's status as a gentleman.

• The difficulty of stopping duelling was compounded by the fact that ' to end a quarrell between two men of worth and valour ' by any other means was well-nigh impossible.

• Only by supreme skill and valour have these victories over the enemy been secured, and not always without loss.

• They served with fidelity and fought with valour and conquered for you in every corner of the globe.

• Discretion is always the better part of valour; free will is better than coercion; and thou mayest is better than thou shalt.

• This war will not be won by valour alone, but by superior administration and superior ability.

• The many awards for bravery given to soldiers and policemen are not only well-deserved rewards for individual acts of valour.

• They are amazed by their skill and their valour.

• Most of them were absent on the maxim that the chance of promotion is the better part of valour.

• We shall hear from him of the skill and valour, the endurance and the heroism, that have brought about this great deliverance.

• It is a story, dreadful in many respects, but a story of incomparable valour in the face of unprecedented difficulties.