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  • For Voldemort and Valor.†   (source)
  • I got a Bronze Star with a V (for valor in combat) instead.†   (source)
  • Nine of them armed and full of strength versus three of us broken and battered and armed with nothing more than our valor.†   (source)
  • Eleven standard months later, Corporal Fedmahn Kassad of the Twelfth Mobile Infantry Battalion had received two Distinguished Service Clusters, a Senate Commendation for valor in the Equatorial Archipelago campaign, and two Purple Hearts.†   (source)
  • That's Danny and Axe: two American heroes, two towering figures in a fighting force where valor is a common virtue.†   (source)
  • Aware of Chicago's reputation for vice and violence, Burnham insisted on the creation of a large police force, the Columbian Guard, and placed it under the command of Colonel Edmund Rice, a man of great valor who had faced Pickett's Charge at Gettysburg.†   (source)
  • Get thee to a nunnery Who steals my purse steals trash [Life's] a tale / Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, / Signifying nothing The better part of valor is discretion (Exit, pursued by a bear) A horse! a horse! my kingdom for a horse!†   (source)
  • He would've explained to his father that none of these decorations was for uncommon valor.†   (source)
  • In recognition of this, my dad, then twenty-two years old, was issued the Bronze Star for valor.†   (source)
  • They put their trust in strength of arm, in valor and bravery and blood.†   (source)
  • "Duncan, the moral," Paul said, "and Gurney the valorous."†   (source)
  • To a new generation, it stood once again for valor and sacrifice.†   (source)
  • You could see and feel the fear and the, valor, I want to say, coming off them like light.†   (source)
  • She'd only gotten her stripe a few weeks ago, and the "act of valor" that earned it for her had been mostly an accident.†   (source)
  • As a result, each new generation of Urgals had no choice but to challenge their peers, challenge their elders, and scour the land for opportunities to prove their valor.†   (source)
  • Though he was a good sentry, alert, ever ready to raise Cain, his valor had one flaw: let him glimpse a gun, as he did now-for the intruders were armed-and his head dropped, his tail turned in.†   (source)
  • He briefed us on the detachment's military training, political education, and valor in the field.†   (source)
  • A reward for their valor.†   (source)
  • You know that thing that happens when you give up before the end and then your team comes back to perform acts of valor and you feel a queasy shame stealing over you like pond slick.†   (source)
  • In Vietnam he earned a Bronze Star for valor and a Purple Heart for combat wounds.†   (source)
  • From a combat perspective there wasn't anything in the SAC's history worthy of note, not a Purple or valor device in sight.†   (source)
  • For his part Adam was awarded his first Bronze Star with combat valor.†   (source)
  • The flagraising on Iwo Jima became a symbol of the island, the mountain, the battle; of World War II; of the highest ideals of the nation, of valor incarnate.†   (source)
  • It was a tradition in the del Valle family that when any of the young men wanted to wear long pants, he had to climb it to prove his valor.†   (source)
  • Colonel Cathcart was overjoyed, for he was relieved of the embarrassing commitment to bomb Bologna without blemish to the reputation for valor he had earned by volunteering his men to do it.†   (source)
  • Then you cry in a loud voice, so that she knows everyone in the valley can hear your statement of valor.†   (source)
  • Enrique's valor put Monterrey Industrial in the finals of the 1957 Little League World Series.†   (source)
  • For the "present at least," discretion was truly the better part of valor.†   (source)
  • I don't know everyone these days at the Deuxième, and at my age, caution is not merely the better part of valor, it's frequently a substitute.†   (source)
  • Colonel Henry Bradford was said by all to have been an intelligent soldier who had led his men with uncommon valor.†   (source)
  • Maybe Grandpa wasn't in a fighting mood that day, or maybe he took one look at Mr. McAllister and figured discretion was the better part of valor, as the saying goes.†   (source)
  • Idefine myself in this way: I am the son of Thomas Patrick McLean of Savannah, Georgia, a volatile, brawling man who attended Benedictine High School and Carolina Military Institute, and as a Marine captain won a Navy Cross for his valor under fire during the invasion of Iwo Jima.†   (source)
  • The stories they tell of comradeship and valor are all to make up for what they lacked.†   (source)
  • Most people have not done so since World War I, which, as Ernest Hemingway and Paul Fussell have written, made such words as glory, honor, courage, hallow, sacrifice, valor, and sacred vaguely embarrassing if not mock-heroic.†   (source)
  • The militia's valor during the recent war erected eternal monuments to their fame.†   (source)
  • Every voice was lifted in the common refrain to the God of Battle, singing of deeds of valor and of glorious deaths on the field of honor.†   (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)
  • Because he had no stories of valor, he had almost done this.†   (source)
  • Discretion seemed the better part of valor, so I stretched my weary muscles and sprinted hard to bypass the Eskimos.†   (source)
  • He had stared, no doubt in disbelief, had calculated the enemy's strength and had known the better part of valor.†   (source)
  • …dweller in the silent and most secret places, well-omened, and gentle, all-knowing, swift as thought, wearer of skulls, possessed of power, the twilight, invincible leader, pitiful one, opener of the way before those lost, granter of favors, teacher, valor in the form of woman, chameleon-hearted, practitioner of austerities, magician, pariah, deathless and eternal … Âryatarabhattarikanamashtottarasatakastotra (36-40) From Hellwell to Heaven he went, there to commune with the gods.†   (source)
  • They have been performed with equal valor and vigor by Congressmen, Presidents, Governors.†   (source)
  • it is a thing most sorrowful, nay shocking, to expose the fall of valor in the soul.   (source)
  • He has been proposed for the silver medal of valor.   (source)
    valor = exceptional or heroic courage when facing danger
  • DOLORES UMBRIDGE: For Voldemort and Valor.†   (source)
  • Did you teach him wisdom as well as valor, Ned? she wondered.†   (source)
  • He did not freeze up or lose the Silver Star for valor.†   (source)
  • It was not courage, exactly; the object was not valor.†   (source)
  • Beric Dondarrion, some young lordling with delusions of valor.†   (source)
  • No one doubts your valor, Ser Loras, but we are about justice here, and what you seek is vengeance.†   (source)
  • And later that night I could've won the Silver Star for valor.†   (source)
  • On the pedestal at the bottom was engraved: AWARD OF VALOR FOR RETRIEVING THOR'S HAMMER.†   (source)
  • Tunnels scared him: the time he almost won the Silver Star for valor.†   (source)
  • And tomorrow, in your first combat, you shall prove your valor and be decapitated!†   (source)
  • I save my valor for the battlefield, woman.†   (source)
  • Only the bravest dwarves dare hunt Nagran, and it is only served to those who have great valor.†   (source)
  • But in the Army it wasn't just about valor in the field, it was about politics far away from battle.†   (source)
  • He was supposed to be singing about the Wall and the valor of the Night's Watch.†   (source)
  • The valor of these seven heroes has proven that you were not entirely without wisdom.†   (source)
  • In the end a gentle heart may be worth more than pride or valor.†   (source)
  • It was an action of common virtue, not uncommon valor, as plain as a pipe.†   (source)
  • "It is His Grace's wish that these good men be rewarded for their valor.†   (source)
  • Knighted in his 15th year by Ser Arthur Dayne of the Kingsguard, for valor in the field.†   (source)
  • Then we shall make up in valor what we lack in numbers!†   (source)
  • Ser Galladon was a champion of such valor that the Maiden herself lost her heart to him.†   (source)
  • If Jaime had led the sortie, you'd call it valor."†   (source)
  • There is no valor in running for your life.†   (source)
  • It didn't represent any abstraction such as "valor" or "the American fighting spirit."†   (source)
  • She loved nothing so well as tales of knightly valor.†   (source)
  • I thought now I would hear some juicy stories of valor.†   (source)
  • I'm told you proved your valor a hundred times over during the Battle of the Blackwater.†   (source)
  • I do not doubt Ser Shadrich's valor, but he seems small, and three blades are better than one."†   (source)
  • "A place of honor," Allard had declared, well satisfied with the chance to prove his valor.†   (source)
  • My heart is bursting with love for our Ser Loras and his valor.†   (source)
  • "Valor morghulis," she whispered as he died.†   (source)
  • "If battle is joined, let Grey Worm show wisdom as well as valor," Dany told him.†   (source)
  • Back on the island, Don Howell had his moment of crisis and valor.†   (source)
  • John Bradley never confided the details of his valor to Betty.†   (source)
  • Last, but first in valor, I give you Ser Gerold Dayne, a knight of Starfall.†   (source)
  • If he thought that would shame the Hound back to valor, he was wrong.†   (source)
  • He gave her a book, beautifully illuminated and filled with a hundred tales of knightly valor.†   (source)
  • Lieutenant Wells's determination drove his men to new heights of valor.†   (source)
  • …. the learning of the wise, the justice of the great, the prayers of the righteous and the valor of the brave.†   (source)
  • I just stood there for a moment, helplessly, fighting back my tears, witnessing a brand of valor I had never before been privileged to see.†   (source)
  • In January, I'd stood by while he received his medal of valor in the Justice Building, another oldest child with no father.†   (source)
  • All told, I would end my career as a SEAL with two Silver Stars and five Bronze Medals, all for valor.†   (source)
  • SCORPIUS: For Voldemort and Valor.†   (source)
  • His name was Billy Shelton, and if he ever sees this, he'll probably die of embarrassment, seeing his name in print on the subject of valor.†   (source)
  • And Paul thought: Gurney's one of those the Reverend Mother meant, a supporter of worlds — " …. the valor of the brave.†   (source)
  • I knew that right now discretion was, by a long way, the better part of valor, because my objective was simply to try and stay alive, not to get into a brawl with knife-wielding tribesmen or, worse, get myself shot.†   (source)
  • DRACO: For Voldemort and Valor.†   (source)
  • Gurney, the valorous.†   (source)
  • A good war story, he thought, but it was not a war for war stories, nor for talk of valor, and nobody in town wanted to know about the terrible stink.†   (source)
  • An act of supreme valor.†   (source)
  • Valor makes up for a fair amount of folly, but you're not a boy anymore, however many years you've seen.†   (source)
  • "How's it being married?" he might ask, and he'd nod at whatever she answered with, and he would not say a word about how he'd almost won the Silver Star for valor.†   (source)
  • He remembered Brandon's laughter, and Robert's berserk valor in the melee, the way he laughed as he unhorsed men left and right.†   (source)
  • Honor them for their valor.†   (source)
  • They were for common valor.†   (source)
  • "It's the best way to prove valor," Sarah told her, nibbling on a slice of green pepper she'd snitched from her father.†   (source)
  • He's been captain on the Mud Gate for three years, and he served with valor during Balon Greyjoy's Rebellion.†   (source)
  • Some tale of valor with a happy ending.†   (source)
  • The Karstarks traced their descent to Karlon Stark, a younger son of Winterfell who had put down a rebel lord a thousand years ago, and been granted lands for his valor.†   (source)
  • But for all its impressive discipline, the Twelfth Legion looked pitifully small, a splotch of demigod valor in a sea of ravenous monsters.†   (source)
  • None wore uniforms; instead in each lapel they wore ribbons, regimental colors above decorations for valor and rank.†   (source)
  • The elders would tell tales of the wars fought by our ancestors in defense of the Fatherland, as well as the acts of valor by generals and soldiers during these epic days…… The structure and organization of early African societies in this country fascinated me very much and greatly influenced the evolution of my political outlook.†   (source)
  • The walls, covered by photos, certificates, insignias, and awards, including his bachelor's degree, the Bronze Star with valor, and the posthumously presented Silver Star for Chief Brown's actions as part of an assault force that executed a daring raid deep into mountainous enemy-occupied terrain in northeastern Afghanistan…. while numerous enemy fighters simultaneously engaged the force from the surrounding mountains….†   (source)
  • The veteran Roman army was an overmatch for the undisciplined valor of all other nations, making her the mistress of the world.†   (source)
  • Once he might have: He might have won the Silver Star for valor, but instead Bernie Lynn went down, and Bernie Lynn won the Silver Star.†   (source)
  • Captain Flume is already working on glowing press releases describing your valor over Ferrara, your deep and abiding loyalty to your outfit and your consummate dedication to duty.†   (source)
  • Almost all cadets, no matter how irreverently they referred to the war, were looking forward to leading troops into battle—it was the grand guignol of our generation, the testing ground of valor—and the collective eyes of the Corps were turned in an eagergaze toward Asia with all the blind irrational instincts of rutting boys, as new portraits began to arrive at the library each month, and as we began to recognize the faces in the portraits.†   (source)
  • In one year's time, or as soon as you complete an act of valor, you will become a full member of the Twelfth Legion Fulminata.†   (source)
  • If men were impressed with Heafstaag's list of valor, they were certainly not disappointed by his appearance.†   (source)
  • The emperor needed more to trade, and to hold the throne he had to show that even though he had delivered the empire into the hands of the enemy he had made a final gesture, done a deed of valor.†   (source)
  • The command at Trenton had been conferred in recognition of his valor at White Plains and Fort Washington.†   (source)
  • He believed, like Doc Peret, that somewhere inside each man is a biological center for the exercise of courage, a piece of tissue that might be touched and sparked and made to respond, a chemical maybe, or a lone chromosome that when made to fire would produce a blaze of valor that even the biles could not extinguish.†   (source)
  • There was no ringing call for valor in the cause of country or the blessings of liberty, as Washington had exhorted his troops at Brooklyn, only a final reminder of the effectiveness of bayonets.†   (source)
  • He was a valorous opportunist who pounced hoggishly upon every opportunity Colonel Korn discovered for him and trembled in damp despair immediately afterward at the possible consequences he might suffer.†   (source)
  • "What right, by valor or by blood, does this weakling southerner have in the mead hall of Tempos?" the red-bearded king demanded.†   (source)
  • They are not half so valorous as you.†   (source)
  • You are the property of the noble and valorous Yezzan zo Qaggaz, scholar and warrior, revered amongst the Wise Masters of Yunkai.†   (source)
  • Washington had concluded his general orders for September 2 with a call for steadfastness and valor in the defense of New York: "Now is the time for every man to exert himself and make our country glorious or become contemptible."†   (source)
  • As the challenge of the song was competition between the tribes, the listing of titles and feats was a personal competition between men, especially kings, whose valor and strength reflected directly upon their warriors.†   (source)
  • He had been elected spokesman because nobody else in Lonelywood cared enough to want to sit on the council, but his peers had attained their positions through valorous and heroic deeds.†   (source)
  • As I have the honor to be an American, and one among the free millions, who are defended by your valor, I would pay the tribute of thanks, and express my gratitude, while I solicit you to continue in your present honorable and important station.†   (source)
  • Yet when Sansa praised his valor and said how good it was to see him getting strong again, both Lancel and Ser Kevan beamed.†   (source)
  • These were two critical undertakings, and in the choice of Reed, his closest confidant, and the very able Mifflin, the Philadelphian who had shown such valor in command of the rear guard at Brooklyn, Washington felt confident he was sending two of the best men he had, and that this would not be lost on any who listened to what they had to say.†   (source)
  • Whenever he was in his cups he would call for a reaving song, something loud and stormy that told of dead heroes and deeds of wild valor.†   (source)
  • Ser Lothor, she had to remind herself; the man had been knighted for his valor in the Battle of the Blackwater.†   (source)
  • But because of a fluke photo—a stiff wind, a rippling flag—this common action represents valor in the eyes of millions, maybe billions of people.†   (source)
  • Great Cleon exposed their plots and hacked their heads off with a cleaver, and the grateful folk of Astapor have crowned him for his valor.†   (source)
  • I have a wonderful horse and a very fine sword, and my valor is second to …. well, several, actually.†   (source)
  • Valor is a poor substitute for numbers.†   (source)
  • "If it please Your Grace, she will be called King Joffrey's Valor," he said, and Joff allowed that he was very pleased indeed.†   (source)
  • It was one of the bravest things my father ever did, and it happened on one of the most valorous days in the history of a Corps known for valor.†   (source)
  • And I think you are gratified that I wrote of you and your fellow flagraisers as ordinary guys, not bronzed warriors of "uncommon valor."†   (source)
  • "I don't doubt that you're all very brave, but when it comes to battle, discipline beats valor every time.†   (source)
  • His strength, his speed, his valor, all his hard-won skill …. it was worth less than a mummer's fart, because he flinched from killing.†   (source)
  • Valor dohaeris is how we say it here.†   (source)
  • Reproduced in bronze, this actual scene should make good art and a fitting tribute to American men and American valor.†   (source)
  • And men say he performed prodigious feats of valor on the Blackwater, fighting beside Lord Renly's ghost."†   (source)
  • To the north, the main force of Marines had been battling with equal valor and sustaining equally severe casualties.†   (source)
  • His task would be to travel the Seven Kingdoms, singing of the valor of the Night's Watch, and from time to time returning to the Wall with new recruits.†   (source)
  • "The Second Sons are an old company, and not without valor, but under Mero they've turned near as bad as the Brave Companions.†   (source)
  • It was not his skill with sword and lance that had won him his White cloak, nor any feats of valor he'd performed against the Kingswood Brotherhood.†   (source)
  • He received a Navy Cross for his valor.†   (source)
  • She loved tales of knightly valor.†   (source)
  • When she was small, her nurse had filled her ears with tales of valor, regaling her with the noble exploits of Ser Galladon of Morne, Florian the Fool, Prince Aemon the Dragonknight, and other champions.†   (source)
  • The inscription read: UNCOMMON VALOR WAS A COMMON VIRTUE Seven thousand dignitaries swelled the grounds on the day of the unveiling.†   (source)
  • His words made Tyrion feel absurdly grateful, and helped to mollify him as Galyeon sang endless verses about the valor of the boy king and his mother, the golden queen.†   (source)
  • Valor morghulis, she thought.†   (source)
  • Now the valor would go uncelebrated.†   (source)
  • She was all charm, flirting with Lord Tyrell as they spoke of Joffrey's wedding feast, complimenting Lord Redwyne on the valor of his twins, softening gruff Lord Rowan with jests and smiles, making pious noises at the High Septon.†   (source)
  • The Photograph will forever inspire paeans to glory and valor among those who see the figures as immortals.†   (source)
  • More medals for valor were awarded for action on Iwo Jima than in any battle in the history of the United States.†   (source)
  • And at his last stop on the island, at the high seawall the Marines had to surmount to get onto Tarawa, Howlin' Mad saw an example of Marine valor.†   (source)
  • Somehow, valor overcame terror.†   (source)
  • If the famous flagraising at Iwo Jima symbolizes American patriotism and valor, Bradley's quiet, modest nature and philanthropic efforts shine as an example of the best of small-town American values.†   (source)
  • On March 13 Willis urged his colleagues to move with "utmost haste" in creating legislation to honor "the all but unbelievable valor" of the Marines in the Pacific.†   (source)
  • Moments of valor proliferated.†   (source)
  • This type of determination and valor among individual Marines overcame seemingly hopeless odds, and in three days of hellish fighting Tarawa was captured.†   (source)
  • Carried away by the daily valor of the Marines, working at a safe but obfuscating distance, and swept up in its own fantasy of a swashbuckling fight for a mountain, reporters invented the heroic fight up the slopes, and the flagraising among whizzing bullets, out of whole cloth.†   (source)
  • In the 1,364 days from Pearl Harbor to the Japanese surrender, with millions of Americans fighting on global battlefronts, only 353 Americans were awarded Medals of Honor, the nation's highest decoration for valor.†   (source)
  • For Easy Company, it had been a day of grievous loss and historic valor: For its day's work, the badly decimated unit would receive a Medal of Honor, four Navy Crosses, two Silver Stars, and a number of Purple Hearts—one of the most decorated engagements in the history of the United States Marine Corps.†   (source)
  • It was one of the bravest things my father ever did, and it happened on one of the most valorous days in the history of a Corps known for valor.†   (source)
  • ") how the papers had reported the flagraising as one of the valorous deeds in man's history—the Marines slogging up the murderous slopes to plant the symbol of victory in a hail of gunfire.†   (source)
  • Must men conscientiously risk their careers only for principles which hindsight declares to be correct, in order for posterity to honor them for their valor?†   (source)
  • In a lonely grave, forgotten and unknown, lies "the man who saved a President," and who as a result may well have preserved for ourselves and posterity Constitutional government in the United States—the man who performed in 1868 what one historian has called "the most heroic act in American history, incomparably more difficult than any deed of valor upon the field of battle"—but a United States Senator whose name no one recalls: Edmund G. Ross of Kansas.†   (source)
  • …resumed the narrative of Sir Launcelot, which thus proceeded: "And now, the champion, having escaped from the terrible fury of the dragon, bethinking himself of the brazen shield, and of the breaking up of the enchantment which was upon it, removed the carcass from out of the way before him, and approached valorously over the silver pavement of the castle to where the shield was upon the wall; which in sooth t feet upon the silver floor, with a mighty great and terrible ringing sound."†   (source)
  • I went round by the garden, and laid wait for the messenger; who fought valorously to defend his trust, and we spilt the milk between us; but I succeeded in abstracting the epistle; and, threatening serious consequences if he did not look sharp home, I remained under the wall and perused Miss Cathy's affectionate composition.†   (source)
  • Look at your valorous conduct in asking to go always to the first line.†   (source)
  • Twelve years earlier he had grown to hate the perils of trench warfare in France, and had several times avoided death by declining to attempt valorous impossibilities.†   (source)
  • Something gathers in the throat, something blinds him in the eyes, and faint and valorous horns sound through the earth.†   (source)
  • But that our cause, our very life and future hopes and past pride, should have been thrown into the balance with men like that to buttress it—men with valor and strength but without pity or honor.†   (source)
  • When she had heard from the youth what his project was, she described to him the best manner of approach to persuade her mother to teach him the secrets of supernatural valor.†   (source)
  • Now for every one there should be some one to whom one can speak frankly, for all the valor that one could have one becomes very alone.†   (source)
  • So he fought with even a more savage fury than he would have if Byron had sprung upon his back without warning: with the blind and desperate valor of a starved and cornered rat he fought.†   (source)
  • …poetry about the very men from whom her father was hiding and who would have shot him or hung him without trial if they had found him—and incidentally of whom the ogre of her childhood made one and (he brought home with him a citation for valor in Lee's own hand) a good one—the face which she carried out there to live for the rest of her life was the same face which had watched him across the dinner table and which he likewise could not have said how many times he had seen it nor…†   (source)
  • And Donall set him a further task, namely, to make the impossible journey to a certain warrior-woman, Scathach, and then compel her to give him instruction in her arts of supernatural valor.†   (source)
  • …traditions of the land where she had been born (and the man who had done that, villain dyed though he be, would have possessed in her eyes, even if only from association with them, the stature and shape of a hero too) and now he also emerging from the same holocaust in which she had suffered, with nothing to face what the future held for the South but his bare hands and the sword which he at least had never surrendered and the citation for valor from his defeated Commander-in-Chief.†   (source)
  • To your valorous wounds.†   (source)
  • What force was it that met him with a valor as reckless as his own?†   (source)
  • The color speaks truth, for, thanks to your valor, things will soon go ill for Spain in Flanders.†   (source)
  • He began to exaggerate the endurance, the skill, and the valor of those who were coming.†   (source)
  • Valor grew strong again, and the little boys began to swear with great spirit.†   (source)
  • Joy, fear, sorrow, devotion, valor, rage—who can tell?†   (source)
  • CYRANO (bowing): The Marshal is a judge of valor.†   (source)
  • Pete's air of distinguished valor had grown upon him until it threatened stupendous dimensions.†   (source)
  • The guns, stolid and undaunted, spoke with dogged valor.†   (source)
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