heroinically

Updated: May 2, 2025

Having set out on that road, she would not turn back; she persisted, like any woman who is contraried, no matter how far she ends from her first position: "Yes, like ours now. For this is probably the dark hour before the dawn. We must wait." "And perish in the mean time?" "Oh, we shall not perish," she responded, heroinically.

William Dean Howells - Imaginary Interviews