hero-baron

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But though the Nevile sufficiently controlled his native candour not to incur unprofitable quarrel by ill-mannered and unseasonable defence of the hero-baron when sneered at or assailed, he had enough of the soldier and the man in him not to be tainted by the envy of the time and place, not to lose his gratitude to his patron, nor his respect for the bulwark of the country.

Baron Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton - The Last of the Barons — Complete

But though the Nevile sufficiently controlled his native candour not to incur unprofitable quarrel by ill-mannered and unseasonable defence of the hero-baron when sneered at or assailed, he had enough of the soldier and the man in him not to be tainted by the envy of the time and place, not to lose his gratitude to his patron, nor his respect for the bulwark of the country.

Baron Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton - The Last of the Barons — Volume 04