Valour in example sentence

Many knights, who had not sufficient confidence in their own skill to defy a single adversary of high reputation, were, nevertheless, desirous of displaying their valour in the general combat, where they might meet others with whom they were more upon an equality.

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There are some really interesting questions about honour; the Warrior Code; the changing concepts of valour; honour killings in Indian families and so on.

I loved the flow of the narrative - how the characters moved from hope and ideals of valour through shock, fear, disintegration, desperation and utter annihilation.

Fortunately, his martial valour was not put to the proof: he laid down the ladder in its accustomed place; he replaced the chain that fastened it; he did not forget to come back and obliterate the print which the ladder had left in the border of exotic flowers beneath Mathilde's window.

A German peasant pointed out to him the little streams, the roads, the islands in the Rhine which the valour of those great Generals has made famous.

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