Braven

But the courage of those boys was marvellous and unfailing, and the veteran soldiers who bravened them, the men who had returned with healed wounds or, had, by some miracle, passed unscathed through many battles, said, “Well done, kids!” and could not praise them enough.

"Fear not, O, fear not, Joseph" . . . he had heard and knew It now for kindly speech that bravened him, […]

A hardy, self-helpful child life, bravened by necessities, never undermined by luxuries.