Heroes

Examples

• And in ages to come we will reverence them and kneel before their sepulchres as at the graves of heroes. Plato. The Republic.
• The days of Homer were his ideal, when a man was chief of an army of heroes, or spent his years in wonderful Odyssey. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• Enough of gods and heroes;--what shall we say about men? Plato. The Republic.
• Under a series of wise men and heroes they wage a generally unsuccessful and never very united warfare against their enemies. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• With heroes of many nations. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• And truly is he so spoken of, said the Grand Master; in our valour only we are not degenerated from our predecessors, the heroes of the Cross. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• All your subjects, Justinian, are making heroes of them, especially the women, much to the dismay of the men of Melnos. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
• Who are your heroes? Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• And, after all, authors' heroines are almost as good as authoresses' heroes. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• What fine heroes you are yourselves! Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• All oracles were at the tombs of Heroes. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• As long as these are present to us, we are more inclined to hate than admire the ambition of heroes. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• Come then, and let us pass a leisure hour in story-telling, and our story shall be the education of our heroes. Plato. The Republic.
• A tragic poet, that would represent his heroes as very ingenious and witty in their misfortunes, would never touch the passions. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• For it is Theodore Roosevelt who is actually attempting to make himself and his admirers the heroes of a new social myth. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• We have heroes too, she said. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
• All of our heroes are fattening now as we approach the second year. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• I knew, and could distinguish those two heroes, at first sight, not only from the crowd, but from each other. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
• The manner in which gods and demigods and heroes and the world below should be treated has been already laid down. Plato. The Republic.
• We saw the damp, dismal cells in which two of Dumas' heroes passed their confinement--heroes of Monte Cristo. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• The first seemed to be an assembly of heroes and demigods; the other, a knot of pedlars, pick-pockets, highwayman, and bullies. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
• Then, with the sudden energy of despair, she calls upon the heroes of Salamis, of Thermopyl?, of Marathon, to aid their mother in the time of need. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
• Instead of exercising their own authority, they use these boys, who are Mr. Kipling's heroes, to punish the two victims. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• In Great Britain, for instance, Mr. Lloyd George was particularly insistent upon his intention to make the after-war Britain a land fit for heroes. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Individuals, save the great heroes who are the chosen organs of the world-spirit, have no share or lot in it. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• My heroes, Maria said. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• But have we not all been misled about our heroes and changed our opinions a hundred times? William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• They were banished from thence by the tyranny of one of Machiavel's heroes, Castruccio Castracani. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• He was numbered among her citizens, his name was added to the list of Grecian heroes. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• The feats of dead heroes lived again. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.

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