Valiant

//ˈvæliənt//

"Valiant" in a Sentence (23 examples)

The statue of the Minute Man commemorates the valiant soldiers who fought in the Revolutionary War.

Every dog is valiant at his own door.

A coward dies a thousand times before his death. The valiant never taste of death but once.

He's a valiant soldier.

However, he did not cease from continuing his way; a young prince in search of glory is ever valiant.

"A king was ours, AEneas; ne'er was born / a man more just, more valiant in the fight, / more famed for piety and deeds of might."

Here warlike Epytus, renowned in fight, / and valiant Rhipeus gather to our side, / and Hypanis and Dymas, matched in might, join with us, by the glimmering moon descried. / Here Mygdon's son, Coroebus, we espied, / who came to Troy, Cassandra's love to gain, / and now his troop with Priam's hosts allied; / poor youth and heedless! whom in frenzied strain / his promised bride had warned, but warned, alas! in vain.

Tom is a valiant warrior.

Her appearance presented a valiant attempt at smartness.

The valiant resistance of Hezbollah in southern Lebanon caught the Israeli troops by surprise.

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A valiant man’s look is more than a coward’s sword.

For by readyng of hiſtories fyrſte we know how longe time mightie empyres, great kyngedomes, famous common weales and citees haue floriſhed: how many yeres noble prynces, valiant capitaynes, and wyſe gouernours haue reigned: in what age they were, which was before other, and how farre diſtante in tyme one from an other.

And of the Gadites there ſeparated them ſelues ſome vnto Dauid into the holde of the wildernes, valiant men of warre, and mẽ of armes, & apt for battel, which colde handle ſpeare and ſhield, and their faces were like the faces of lyons, and were like the roes in the mountaines in ſwiftenes, […]

Hee's truly Valiant, that can wiſely ſuffer The worſt that man can breath, And make his Wrongs, his Out-ſides, To weare them like his Rayment, careleſſely, And ne're preferre his iniuries to his heart, To bring it into danger.

Then they read to him ſome of the worthy Acts that ſome of his Servants had done. As how they had ſubdued Kingdoms, wrought Righteouſneſs, obtained Promiſes, ſtopped the mouths of Lions, quenched the violence of Fire, eſcaped the edge of the Sword; out of weakneſs were made ſtrong, waxed valiant in fight, and turned to flight the Armies of the Aliens. [Heb[rews] 11. 33, 34.]

The Advantages of Time and Place are enough to make a Poultron Valiant. There's Nothing ſo Couragious as a Coward if you put him out of Danger.

But admit that good Men are begotten of good Parents, and valiant Men of valiant Fathers; and if this be to Mankind proper, why are not good and valiant Children begotten of good and valiant common Perſons also? for they are Men as well as the other. But nothing is more deceitful than this Rule; for through the Corruption of Man's Nature we ſee it often happens, a prodigal Son to be born of a frugal Father, a Fool of a wiſe Man, and a Coward of a courageous Man.

another valiant attempt at rescue

She is a theame of honour and renowne, A ſpurre to valiant and magnanimous deeds, Whoſe preſent courage may beate downe our foes, And fame in time to come canonize us, [...]

Cowards dye many times before their deaths, The valiant neuer taſte of death but once: [...]

O yee Angells, yee Champions and valiants of the court of heauen, and ſtout ſoldiers of Chriſt your King, who euerie one ſingle is able to encounter and to defeat the greateſt armie that euer was ſeene on earth, where are you?

No Sailer with the News ſwell Egypt’s Pride. By what inglorious Fate our Valiant dy’d!

The valiant profit more Their country, than the fineſt clevereſt ſpeakers. Valour once known, will ſoon find eloquence To trumpet forth her praiſe— [...]

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