7 sentences with 'bravery'
Example sentences and phrases with the word bravery and other words derived from it.
• « Some Romans admired their bravery and codes of honour - the same Tacitus who provides much of the information about the early emperors contrasted the supposed weakness and dissolution of his Roman contemporaries with the crude virtue of the Germans. »
• « At the end of the Napoleonic Wars, some Russian officers in the Tsarist army suffered a couple of related revelations. First, they came to admire the bravery and loyalty of their soldiers, all of whom came from the ranks of the serfs. »
• « War was an ideal of bravery and honour that many young men in Europe in 1914 craved as a way to prove themselves, to prove their loyalty and to purge their boredom and uncertainty about the future. »
• « No amount of skill or bravery mattered if an artillery shell hit the trench where a soldier was standing. Likewise, if ordered to "go over", all that could be hoped for was to survive long enough to be able to retreat. »
• « David Martinez, a veteran World War I artilleryman, was decorated for bravery on the battlefield. But that was many years ago. »
• « Christopher Columbus's voyages - closer in time - were not such a risky adventure, although no one questions the prestige of the navigator or his bravery in travelling in the fragile vessels. »
• « In Ecuadorian territory, Juan Lavalle successfully confronted royalist troops in the battle of Riobamba, where he stood out for his bravery. »