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  • To crown it all he had taken two titles and had shown incredible prowess in two inter-tribal wars.†   (source)
  • Among the Alyssians, one particular soldier was making a name for himself with his growing military prowess and suicidal bravery.†   (source)
  • Molly couldn't care less about Jack's prowess on the soccer field, but smart she respects.†   (source)
  • His unique skill, coupled with the prowess he'd honed during the war as a hunter of hollows, ma de him too valuable.†   (source)
  • But it is false in the way that telling the story of Bill Gates without mentioning the computer at Lakeside is false, or accounting for Asian math prowess without going back to the rice paddies is false.†   (source)
  • It was a place of respect, if not high honor; the Dothraki esteemed the knight's prowess with a sword.†   (source)
  • But a deer was far beyond his prowess as a hunter.†   (source)
  • "With your good grades in class and your prowess on the field," he said, "you could turn into the world's first professional soccer player-cum-university professor!†   (source)
  • But four luminaries stood out even in this distinguished company-climbers who demonstrated such astonishing prowess above 26,000 feet that they were in a league of their own: Ed Viesturs, the American who was starring in the IMAX film; Anatoli Boukreev, a guide from Kazakhstan working for Fischer; Ang Babu Sherpa, who was employed by the South African expedition; and Lopsang.†   (source)
  • Their prowess in battle was unmatched, for each had the strength of ten men.†   (source)
  • It makes sense, though, since being a SEAL is more about mental toughness than physical prowess—if you have the psychological fortitude to come back from an injury and complete the program, you stand a decent chance of being a good SEAL.†   (source)
  • Dr. Cigrand and his wife did not encounter Holmes on this visit and in fact never did meet him face to face, but they heard glowing stories from Emeline about his charm, generosity, and business prowess.†   (source)
  • My father, utterly thrilled by Jim's gridiron prowess, was elected as president of the Big Creek Football Fathers' Association.†   (source)
  • It's possible we envy them for a prowess that has little to do with sport.†   (source)
  • Because fire is the most common form of energy, and without energy, our prowess as sympathists is of little use.†   (source)
  • And this lad needs greater respect for my prowess.†   (source)
  • The dogs' dense, oily coats made them impervious to the icy waters, and their swimming prowess, boundless energy, and ability to cradle fish gently in their jaws without damaging the flesh made them ideal work dogs for the tough North Atlantic conditions.†   (source)
  • Horace remembered seeing him one day flicking his lock blade open and then shutting it against the flank of his leg, flicking and shutting it again and again, but as for whether this was a habit or a threat, a nervous tic or an announcement of his prowess, Horace Whaley couldn't tell.†   (source)
  • His prowess extends further than to setting off fireworks.†   (source)
  • Blomkvist leaned back and pretended to be insulted, but he frowned when Berger made some cryptic remarks that might allude to his failings as a journalist but might also have applied to sexual prowess.†   (source)
  • Your prowess in combat will be beyond any mortal's, but your weaknesses, your failings will increase as well.†   (source)
  • Coach continued, "Since the dawn of time, women have been attracted to mates with strong survival skills—like intelligence and physical prowess—because men with these qualities are more likely to bring home dinner at the end of the day."†   (source)
  • Although she had no doubts about her prowess as a midwife, the nature of her work meant that toilets didn't get cleaned on a regular basis; that dust bunnies bloomed beneath the furniture.†   (source)
  • He had envied Richard's prowess, and had imagined that this envy was love.†   (source)
  • Terror's nickname comes from his prowess on the soccer field, but he was just as formidable in a debate.†   (source)
  • When one young man took the ball the length of the field, dancing and dribbling through a succession of defenders before tapping in a shot, he looked toward Luma for acknowledgment of his prowess.†   (source)
  • Clearly, this had not been the moment to show off my grammar prowess.†   (source)
  • He was determined to be the first, and the difficulty of the task would only confirm his own prowess.†   (source)
  • His prowess was not lost on Lorena, either.†   (source)
  • I thank those who have selflessly pulled themselves off the line to train the next warriors to go forward—so that they may surpass the prowess of those currently engaged.†   (source)
  • The seventh and final child in a family economically exhausted by the Great Depression, Dempsey's athletic prowess—he was an all-state quarterback on his high-school football team and an all-state guard on the basketball team—got him out of Pequot Lakes, a tiny fish-crazy town in northern Minnesota, and sent him on a path to the wider world.†   (source)
  • The other teams in the Explorer class brought a wealth of engineering prowess to the sampling problem.†   (source)
  • There was a time, yet a hundred generations before the world moved on, when mankind had achieved enough technical and scientific prowess to chip a few splinters from the great stone pillar of reality.†   (source)
  • The old German Jew died in his sleep, the pharmacy was closed, and, partly on the strength of rumors of his literary prowess, Litvinoff was hired as a teacher at a Jewish day school.†   (source)
  • Artus managed to get his own short sword free of the sheath, but he was no match for the Winter King's prowess.†   (source)
  • His prowess on the ping-pong table was legendary, and Appleby won every game he started until the night Orr got tipsy on gin and juice and smashed open Appleby's forehead with his paddle after Appleby had smashed back each of Orr's first five serves.†   (source)
  • Cedric's particular prowess is at always making sure his margins are good.†   (source)
  • She left screaming insults about me, my sexual prowess, my ego.†   (source)
  • Muta released the clip from his pistol, checked it once, and slammed it home in a show of weapon-handling prowess.†   (source)
  • One of the games was for ours, but we were everyone else's homecoming opponent—not ordinarily a sign of respect for a school's football prowess.†   (source)
  • Computers were the height of our technological prowess, and now we're using them as latrine walls, thanks to the angels.†   (source)
  • So even was my brother, Boromir: a man of prowess, and for that he was accounted the best man in Gondor.†   (source)
  • And the young lady's in question, of course," Tradd said demurely, but it was obvious that he had never been the central figure in any discussion of sexual prowess and was enjoying the experience in his own baffled manner.†   (source)
  • Despite their legal prowess, the case of the Amistads would be a difficult challenge for Baldwin and his team.†   (source)
  • He was the oldest there, a man named David Abbott, a former Olympic swimmer whose intellect had matched his physical prowess.†   (source)
  • Or maybe it's just that word of my prowess with cream of tartar has spread.†   (source)
  • But if Britain's one national government hadn't regulated navigation, making it a place for seamen to learn—if one national government hadn't used national resources and materials to form fleets—their prowess and ability would not be praised.†   (source)
  • But anyone who had ever seen the spokesman from Bryn Shander raise a sword in battle or maneuver his charges on the field had no doubts concerning his fighting prowess or his bravery.†   (source)
  • That is what distinguishes the man so to me, aside from his military prowess, of course.†   (source)
  • The men gawked at his prowess and said Oz had an arm like they had never seen before.†   (source)
  • Other than for his physical prowess, I still wondered why they all held such reverence for him.†   (source)
  • As for his diving prowess, I was unable to confirm it that first day I worked with him, for we pulled shore duty while Deems and Carter got sent over to Station Three.†   (source)
  • His fists he clenched and knotted above his head - like a boxer self-acknowledging his prowess.†   (source)
  • At breakfast he had sung my prowess up to date in a thousand intricate lines.†   (source)
  • He found Mary to be very much concerned about the baby's prowess in crawling.†   (source)
  • Hers was the average woman's pride, but in the matter of man-conquering prowess she was not unduly conceited.   (source)
  • His prowess from behind the three point line is unmatched.
  • They soon began to boast of their respective superiority to each other in strength and prowess.   (source)
  • Many times have I heard you speak of the prowess of Gurney Halleck on the baliset.†   (source)
  • But there was a lot more to Marc than just physical prowess.†   (source)
  • Even in the west, we know the prowess of the warrior clans of the Mountains of the Moon.†   (source)
  • As soon as you face a man of true prowess, your confidence crumbles.†   (source)
  • She was sixteen and no stranger to a sword, but still shy despite her prowess in the yard.†   (source)
  • Addison: much more befitting an animal of my intellectual prowess, I think.†   (source)
  • Nor was he the sort the smallfolk cheer in tourneys, despite his undoubted prowess.†   (source)
  • When they are, they will be pleased to demonstrate their prowess.†   (source)
  • Your prowess is unmatched by any mortal, Stronghammer.†   (source)
  • With their wiry builds, the boys hardly presented the image of athletic prowess.†   (source)
  • "Prince Rhaegar's prowess was unquestioned, but he seldom entered the lists.†   (source)
  • Have you so little confidence in our prowess, Ambassador?†   (source)
  • Your prowess is without compare, Your Majesty.†   (source)
  • Rare was the man who could hope to match the physical prowess of a healthy Urgal ram.†   (source)
  • It had never fully occurred to Jean Louise that she was a girl: her life had been one of reckless, pummeling activity; fighting, football, climbing, keeping up with Jem, and besting anyone her own age in any contest requiring physical prowess.†   (source)
  • The aim was to produce a single pill, that, at one and the same time: would protect the user against all known sexually transmitted diseases, fatal, inconvenient, or merely unsightly; would provide an unlimited supply of libido and sexual prowess, coupled with a generalized sense of energy and well-being, thus reducing the frustration and blocked testosterone that led to jealousy and violence, and eliminating feelings of low self-worth; would prolong youth.†   (source)
  • There will be three tasks, spaced throughout the school year, and they will test the champions in many different ways… their magical prowess — their daring — their powers of deduction — and, of course, their ability to cope with danger.†   (source)
  • They had a ranking system among themselves, and your rise through those ranks was due to prowess and nothing else.†   (source)
  • They were one of the reasons the Riders became valued for their battle prowess and ability to keep the peace…… Much can be learned from this history.†   (source)
  • But although Okonkwo was a great man whose prowess was universally acknowledged, he was not a hunter.†   (source)
  • From cities conquered earlier they've kept back the young girls and doled them out among the soldiers, one or two or three each according to prowess and merit, but the divine messenger has now said that enough is enough.†   (source)
  • His claim is the true one, he is known for his prowess as a battle commander, and he is utterly without mercy.†   (source)
  • Halleck's cousins followed Halleck, then one of Harma's banner-bearers, then men who'd fought with her, then others who had heard tales of their prowess.†   (source)
  • In many ways, the fierce, hook-clawed, yellow-beaked raptors reminded Eragon of Saphira herself, an observation that pleased her, for she admired the hawks as well, though not so much for their appearance as for their hunting prowess.†   (source)
  • Attempts to ignore him by pretending to study only resulted in a running commentary on my academic prowess, or lack thereof.†   (source)
  • He knew that he was in mortal danger, and despite his prowess, he was not confident of defeating Birgit if she attacked, for like him, she pursued her enemies with single-minded determination.†   (source)
  • My hope is that if we inundate cities like Dras-Leona with rumors of Eragon's prowess, when we actually reach the city and they see him, they will join us of their own accord and we can avoid a siege.†   (source)
  • At each bowling lane, giants sat grouped by team—throwing food, cracking jokes, and boasting about their pin-destroying prowess.†   (source)
  • But none of these particulars were as disturbing to Ryan as the one that flogged his mind as he tried to harness its calculating prowess, fleeing down Barton Creek Boulevard, sixty seconds after leaving Celine and company against the wall: Bethany was with BoneMan.†   (source)
  • She had never met Ser Loras Tyrell, but even in the distant north one heard tales of the prowess of the young Knight of Flowers.†   (source)
  • All the allies wanted to know what had happened in the enemy camp, and Charles and Tummeler told the story in a rush, there on the beach, pausing now and then to compliment one another on their stealth and prowess.†   (source)
  • He had observed Regis several times over the last few years and had listened intently to tales of the halfling's prowess in the art of persuasion.†   (source)
  • In addition to being brothers in arms, Adam and Kevin were initially drawn to each other by their ability to talk smack about their athletic prowess in sports ranging from Ping-Pong and darts to football and basketball.†   (source)
  • Barbara Jennings looks evenly at him-a slight fellow, born in India, she thinks, who has long been boastful about the academic prowess of his daughter, who just started at the University of Maryland.†   (source)
  • Of the battle he says: No blame can be attached to the army for its failure to accomplish what was projected by me… I alone am to blame, in perhaps expecting too much of its prowess and valor… could I have foreseen that the attack on the last day would fail, I should certainly have tried some other course… but I do not know what better course I could have pursued.†   (source)
  • The big spearwife narrowed her eyes and said, "If the crow would join the free folk, let him show us his prowess and prove the truth of him."†   (source)
  • They left orders that if you came here seeking them, you should join them directly, for your prowess is needed if we are to prevail.†   (source)
  • Your little wife has filled your head with foolish notions of his prowess, I know, but Osmund Kettleblack is thrice the knight that Loras is.†   (source)
  • It was the premiere school for those who aspired to high command, and though Ramius had not attended it as a student, his prowess as an operational commander won him an appointment as an instructor.†   (source)
  • Was it not you who told me warlocks were no more than old soldiers, vainly boasting of forgotten deeds and lost prowess?†   (source)
  • An uncle famed for his prowess with an axe, a great-uncle who had fought in the War of the Ninepenny Kings.†   (source)
  • "You have not yet come to understand your own prowess in battle!" he laughed, slapping the big man on the back.†   (source)
  • Still, he could not help being pleased by his heightened prowess, as well as by his long-awaited reprieve from the torment of his back.†   (source)
  • Knighted in his 16th year by King Aegon V Targaryen, after performing great feats of prowess as a mystery knight in the winter tourney at King's Landing, defeating Prince Duncan the Small and Ser Duncan the Tall, Lord Commander of the Kingsguard.†   (source)
  • "Once they were mighty," Xaro agreed, "but now they are as ludicrous as those feeble old soldiers who boast of their prowess long after strength and skill have left them.†   (source)
  • Wulfgar smiled, confident that his new-found prowess with the hammer would impress even the grumpy dwarf.†   (source)
  • His grandsire had been slain by Robert at Summer-hall; somehow this had elevated his slayer to godlike prowess in the grandson's eyes.†   (source)
  • The would-be mages, however, men who somehow had come into a degree of magical prowess, whether they had found a scroll or a master's spellbook or some relic, were often the perpetrators of colossal calamities.†   (source)
  • Your great prowess in battle?†   (source)
  • Like any boy his age, his head was full of dreams of glory; no doubt he had been picturing the prowess he would display at Deepwood Motte.†   (source)
  • He was an observer who understood the value of knowledge of friend or foe, and he had often used his stealth prowess to observe the daily routines and traditions of the proud natives of Icewind Dale, the barbarians.†   (source)
  • That both groups had managed to cooperate so well had, he knew, little to do with his prowess as a commander.†   (source)
  • But he looked back for a moment over his shoulder to consider the fallen youth, shaking his head at the waste of one so tall and straight, with intelligent eyes to match his physical prowess, a combination uncommon among the wild and ferocious natives of Icewind Dale.†   (source)
  • Either he names it himself or, once he proves his prowess with some extraordinary feat, the bards name it for him.†   (source)
  • Fate has placed us on opposite sides of this conflict, but that does not mean I cannot admire your bravery and prowess.†   (source)
  • Clearing a space between the tables, the men tested their prowess against one another with feats of wrestling and archery and bouts with quarterstaves.†   (source)
  • Still, remember what Oromis said, that the prowess of a dragon and Rider is measured not only by how well they work together but also by how well they can function when apart.†   (source)
  • When the questions were finished, Nasuada expressed her condolences to Martland for his lost hand, then dismissed Martland and Ulhart, but not Roran, to whom she said, "You have demonstrated your prowess once again, Stronghammer.†   (source)
  • For here are men of renown and prowess, whom you should not take into the shadows, but should lead to war, where men are needed.†   (source)
  • Mahu-ika inquired, "What feat of mutual prowess and emulation shall it be?"†   (source)
  • She was dignified, if not haughty; I felt her conduct like a kind of touching athletic prowess.†   (source)
  • Everybody sent presents to the Wart, for his prowess in having learned to pull swords out of stones, and several burghers of the City of London asked him to help them in taking stoppers out of unruly bottles, unscrewing taps which had got stuck, and in other household emergencies which had got beyond their control.†   (source)
  • He gave a modest demonstration of his prowess one afternoon, with Randy's "twenty-two, that left them gasping.†   (source)
  • Apparently he paid Judith the dubious compliment of not even trying to ruin her, let alone insisting on the marriage either before or after Sutpen forbade it—this, mind you, in a man who had already acquired a name for prowess among women while at the University, long before Sutpen was to find actual proof.†   (source)
  • …another cabin, the voices of the women sober enough, even calm, yet filled with a quality dark and sullen and only some man, usually his father in drink, to break out into harsh recapitulation of his own worth, the respect which his own physical prowess commanded from his fellows, and the boy of either thirteen or fourteen or maybe twelve knowing that the men and the women were talking about the same thing though it had never once been mentioned by name, like when people talk about…†   (source)
  • It would be nice to think that they were talking about us at this minute, perhaps saying admiring things about Gawaine's prowess: or Gwen might be saying that she wished her old man would come home.†   (source)
  • It was the usual sort of war, with a great deal of shoving and shouting on both sides, great strokes smitten, many men overthrown, and great valiances, prowesses, and feats of arms shown every day.†   (source)
  • The action was that of an Indian, impressive and stern, significant of an Indian's prowess.†   (source)
  • I likened him to some great tiger, a beast of prowess and prey.†   (source)
  • He had imagined peoples secure in the shadow of his eagle-eyed prowess.†   (source)
  • But surely it is not physical prowess, either!†   (source)
  • He seemed no more to be continually regarding the proportions of his personal prowess.†   (source)
  • As for his prowess at Waterloo, the reader is already acquainted with that.†   (source)
  • Tom knew his wife's prowess by experience.†   (source)
  • Man of prowess—yes, that is the man to please them, Sandy.†   (source)
  • A person whose goodness consists rather in his guiltlessness of vice, than in his prowess in virtue.†   (source)
  • It was, in fact, a compliment to his prowess, and he felt proud of the distinction.†   (source)
  • David wished to immortalize that feat of prowess.†   (source)
  • —and he be such a man of prowess as ye speak of, said Sir Gawaine.†   (source)
  • But whether it was because I had done well myself, or because I had been a witness of his own much greater prowess, is more than I can tell.†   (source)
  • Tales of his prowess were recited.†   (source)
  • Even the delights of dancing paled before the alluring opportunities for tete-a-tetes that invited the soul to loaf in the long library before the baronial fireplace, or in the drawing-room with its deep comfy armchairs, its shaded lamps just made for a sly whisper of pretty nothings all a deux; or even in the billiard room where one could take a cue and show a prowess at still another game than that sponsored by Cupid and Terpsichore.†   (source)
  • Indeed, his mind was so crowded with dreams of athletic prowess at school that he considered this visit only as a rather tiresome prelude to the great adventure.†   (source)
  • Here each took his place with more or less distinction, according to the record of his past wild prowess and his present possibilities.†   (source)
  • He went about in it with greater confidence, with a feeling of prowess that had not been his in the days before the battle with the lynx.†   (source)
  • Your excellency is the lion of which the fable remarks: 'A mighty lion, terror of the woods, Was shorn of his great prowess by old age.'†   (source)
  • While they asserted that it had been "the nicest party they'd ever seen—my! so clever and original," she smiled tremendously, shook hands, and cried many suitable things regarding children, and being sure to wrap up warmly, and Raymie's singing and Juanita Haydock's prowess at games.†   (source)
  • What I am saying is this: it is not by way of cleverness that he puts us in his pocket, not through intellectual prowess.†   (source)
  • By evening Perrault secured another dog, an old husky, long and lean and gaunt, with a battle-scarred face and a single eye which flashed a warning of prowess that commanded respect.†   (source)
  • CHAPTER 16 'The time was coming when I should see him loved, trusted, admired, with a legend of strength and prowess forming round his name as though he had been the stuff of a hero.†   (source)
  • Side by side with his memory of the deeds of prowess of his uncle Mat Davin, the athlete, the young peasant worshipped the sorrowful legend of Ireland.†   (source)
  • He strolled about and talked with them, and the biggest of them told tales of their prowess, while those who were weaker, or younger and inexperienced, gathered round and listened in admiring silence.†   (source)
  • When she recalled his physical prowess with animals, and imagined what it must be in relation to men, she actually smiled at the thought of Beasley forcing her off her property, if Dale were there.†   (source)
  • As Jimmie and his friend exchanged tales descriptive of their prowess, Maggie leaned back in the shadow.†   (source)
  • Hare thrilled with savage delight in the wonderful prowess of his desert king, in the primal instinct of joy at escaping with the woman he loved.†   (source)
  • He was a killer, a thing that preyed, living on the things that lived, unaided, alone, by virtue of his own strength and prowess, surviving triumphantly in a hostile environment where only the strong survived.†   (source)
  • "You understand," he said, "that in a society dominated by the fact of commercial competition, money is necessarily the test of prowess, and wastefulness the sole criterion of power.†   (source)
  • The sleddogs had forgotten his prowess.†   (source)
  • This was the man that looked at White Fang, delighted in his ferocious prowess, and desired to possess him.†   (source)
  • We have heard of your prowess.†   (source)
  • Hurry had a respectable reputation for prowess among his associates, and Hutter heard this pledge with a satisfaction that was not concealed.†   (source)
  • "Besides," said she, "you want to get on to your dearly-loved upper Thames, and show your prowess down the heavy swathes of the mowing grass."†   (source)
  • He said good-bye to him at the station on their return from a bear hunt, at which they had had a display of Russian prowess kept up all night.†   (source)
  • The populace, fond of all prowess, sought him with their eyes, beneath the gloomy nave, regretting that he had so speedily disappeared from their acclamations.†   (source)
  • It is as much out of his possibility as the prowess of Coeur-de-Lion, or an Irishman's day's work on the railroad.†   (source)
  • Ahiram quickly appeared, and before many minutes had elapsed, most of the hunters dropped in, singly and in pairs, each man bringing with him some fruits of his prowess in the field.†   (source)
  • "In that age," says Plutarch in the life of Coriolanus, "martial prowess was more honored and prized in Rome than all the other virtues, insomuch that it was called virtus, the name of virtue itself, by applying the name of the kind to this particular species; so that virtue in Latin was as much as to say valor."†   (source)
  • Among these warriors was one race particularly famous for their prowess, and for those qualities that render an Indian hero celebrated.†   (source)
  • And then, my good fellow, use your daggers in any way you please, and I further promise you to be there as a spectator of your prowess.†   (source)
  • I AM rather free about women, he had often said, smiling and nodding knowingly to Stubble and Spooney, and other comrades of the mess-table; and they rather respected him than otherwise for this prowess.†   (source)
  • "Ay," said Fitzurse, "such is indeed the fashion of Richard—a true knight-errant he, and will wander in wild adventure, trusting the prowess of his single arm, like any Sir Guy or Sir Bevis, while the weighty affairs of his kingdom slumber, and his own safety is endangered.†   (source)
  • These benches which now we are trying to see as they were testified to the change come with conquest, and illustrated both the policy and the prowess of Rome.†   (source)
  • One of the stanchest patrons was little Ned Higgins, the devourer of Jim Crow and the elephant, who to-day signalized his omnivorous prowess by swallowing two dromedaries and a locomotive.†   (source)
  • 'I am glad to see the result of your prowess, my boy,' said I; 'but I cannot approve of deceit, even as a joke; stick to the truth in jest and earnest.'†   (source)
  • At the same time he laid his finger significantly on another similar weapon, both being the fruits of his prowess among their enemies during the evening.†   (source)
  • I shall here repeat what I have said in the text: the remedy for these dangers is not to be found in the army, but in the country: a democratic people which has preserved the manliness of its character will never be at a loss for military prowess in its soldiers.†   (source)
  • Here Phoebus, whose imagination was endowed with but mediocre power of creation, began to find himself in a quandary as to a means of extricating himself for his prowess.†   (source)
  • In the present instance it was retrograde, and in less than a minute after the bellowing report of the swivel among the rocks and caverns, the whole weight of the attack from the left rested on the prowess of the single arm of the veteran.†   (source)
  • His prowess has been mentioned; and it was chiefly by his courage and example, that the Tetons sustained themselves in the heroic manner they did, when the death of Mahtoree was known.†   (source)
  • When he had enumerated the many different occasions on which the Hurons had exhibited their courage and prowess, in the punishment of insults, he digressed in a high encomium on the virtue of wisdom.†   (source)
  • …armor and took Sir Kay's horse and gat him away into distant lands, and vanquished sixteen knights in one pitched battle and thirty-four in another; and all these and the former nine he made to swear that about Whitsuntide they would ride to Arthur's court and yield them to Queen Guenever's hands as captives of Sir Kay the Seneschal, spoil of his knightly prowess; and now here were these half dozen, and the rest would be along as soon as they might be healed of their desperate wounds.†   (source)
  • This name he had acquired in his youth, by his skill and prowess in war; but when his brows began to wrinkle with time, and he stood alone, the last of his family, and his particular tribe, the few Delawares, who yet continued about the headwaters of their river, gave him the mournful appellation of Mohegan.†   (source)
  • He stood, a moment, regarding the effect of the blow, with that sort of contempt with which a giant might be supposed to contemplate the puny resistance of a dwarf, and then flourishing the implement above his head, with the grace and dexterity with which a master of the art of offence would wield his nobler though less useful weapon, he quickly severed the trunk of the tree, bringing its tall top crashing to the earth in submission to his prowess.†   (source)
  • Each one in presence seated himself, as though ashamed of his precipitation; but it was many minutes before their meaning eyes ceased to roll toward their captive, in curious examination of a warrior who had so often proved his prowess on the best and proudest of their nation.†   (source)
  • It required some little time to recover from the effects of this violent scene, and this so much the more, because the principal man of the party, in the way of personal prowess at least, had been so great a sufferer.†   (source)
  • …most conspicuously situated lady in that massed flower-bed of feminine show and finery inclined her head by way of assent, and then the spokesman of the prisoners delivered himself and his fellows into her hands for free pardon, ransom, captivity, or death, as she in her good pleasure might elect; and this, as he said, he was doing by command of Sir Kay the Seneschal, whose prisoners they were, he having vanquished them by his single might and prowess in sturdy conflict in the field.†   (source)
  • I will say you, said Sir Gawaine, it beseemeth evil a good knight to despise all ladies and gentlewomen, and peradventure though he hate you he hath some cause, and peradventure he loveth in some other places ladies and gentlewomen, and to be loved again, and he such a man of prowess as ye speak of—†   (source)
  • You have more prowess, for a goddess bore you; his power over men surpasses yours.†   (source)
  • That is evil said, said Sir Tristram, for a knight may never be of prowess but if he be a lover.†   (source)
  • Then befell that young lady to come to her estate again, by the mighty prowess of Sir Bors de Ganis.†   (source)
  • O Merlin, said the queen, shall I live to see my son such a man of prowess?†   (source)
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