Sentences with phrase «valour took»

Not the kind that castles and ships fly or that armies carried into battle (see, e.g., the Battle of the Standard, in reference to which the word was first used in English to mean flag, the OED tells us, because a versifier there wrote: «it was there that valour took its stand to conquer or die»), but growing out of that notion of a centre from which commands are issued all the way to a measure of uniform quality.

Not exact matches

What buckles is complex: «brute beauty,» «plume,» and «air» but also «valour,» «act,» and «pride,» both the natural and human are involved; in fact, it takes on cosmic proportions.

And they asked Lady Luck that what did she take them for to have drew them to play against a none League club side when they are not chickens but men of great valour with timber and caliber.