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In spite of their strength and hardihood, several of the band were already worn down by hard service and hard fare, and as none of them were shod, they were fast becoming foot-sore. Every horse and mule had a cord of twisted bull-hide coiled around his neck, which by no means added to the beauty of his appearance.
Though remembering your daring courage and hardihood, I did not credit the tale that was brought here that you had perished in the woods attempting to escape. I felt confident you would one day return as you did ten years ago, and brought this boy with you. Geoffry Hunter left two children. You knew them Horace and Ellen.
Here was the same old toughness of mind, a kind of intellectual hardihood, that had sometimes shocked his schoolfellows. Benham had been one of those boys who do not originate ideas very freely, but who go out to them with a fierce sincerity. He believed and disbelieved with emphasis. Prothero had first set him doubting, but it was Benham's own temperament took him on to denial.
"Accustomed to labor from childhood upon the farm and in outdoor employment, she had acquired unusual vigor of constitution; her frame was robust and of masculine strength; and, having thus gained a degree of hardihood, she was enabled to acquire great expertness and precision in the manual exercise, and to undergo what a female, delicately nurtured, would have found it impossible to endure.
'Thou wast running as if all the devils in hell had been at thy heels. Tom turned deadly pale, a fresh access of terror overcoming his new-born hardihood. 'Who were they, thinkest thou, whom thou sawest in the water, Tom? resumed his master. 'For what didst thou take them? Tom shook his head with an awful significance, looked behind him, and said nothing.
His ugly face, animated by his swift ride, glowed with hardihood and determination. Without even a switch in his hand, he had, without the slightest hesitation, rushed out into the night alone to face a wolf.... 'What a splendid fellow! I thought, looking at him. 'Have you seen any wolves, then? asked the trembling Kostya.
By heaven! I wish the sentry had killed you then and there. I never dreamed of such hardihood." "You've done nothing but dream. By Jove, I believe you're sleepwalking yet. What on earth do you mean by catching and killing me? 'Pon my soul I reckon you're crazy, Captain Chester." And color was gradually coming back again to Jerrold's face, and confidence to his tone. "Enough of this, Mr. Jerrold.
Their gallantry, courage, and hardihood are qualities which excite reverence, and perhaps rather humble pacific landsmen in their presence; and neither respect nor a sense of humiliation are feelings easily combined with a familiar fondness towards those who inspire them.
Their lives were sacrificed in the attainment; but they won names imperishable in English naval history, and gave another example of the undaunted courage, hardihood, and perseverance of British seamen. Since the numerous expeditions connected with the search for Sir John Franklin, England had sent forth none towards the North Pole.
Adventure is the meat of the strong men who have built the world for those more timid. Adventure and the frontier are one and inseparable. They suggest strength, courage, hardihood qualities beloved in men since the world began qualities which are the very soul of the United States, itself an experiment, an adventure, a risk accepted.
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