doughty
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Young readers will cheer for the doughty girl, who braves the razored depths to haul the baby dragon to safety in this satisfying, sumptuously illustrated fable translated from the French by Alyson Waters.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2025
In public he has been a doughty defender of independence, a parliamentary performer not averse to barracking and heckling his political opponents.
From BBC ● Apr. 30, 2024
None of these doughty Irish mams, abroad for the first time in their lives, display the slightest curiosity about their surroundings, or indeed anything beyond the horizons of their own tangled histories.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 14, 2023
His doughty performance, punctuated by that final dash to victory, spoke the loudest.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 29, 2023
And some said that when the Riders came from Rohan each would bring behind him a halfling warrior, small maybe, but doughty.
From "The Return of the King" by J.R.R. Tolkien
But then that doughtier, more familiar English trait—worldly scepticism—must and will reassert itself.
From Economist ● Jun. 24, 2016
Rugby union has known few doughtier competitors than the All Black captain and, should he become the first person to guide his side to two consecutive World Cup triumphs, it will merely underline that fact.
From The Guardian ● Oct. 29, 2015
The 24-year-old was outstanding in dry, firm conditions against Scotland at the start of the Six Nations but England preferred the doughtier Brad Barritt at inside centre in the latter half of the campaign.
From The Guardian ● Apr. 29, 2013
But I'm afraid the task would take a doughtier woodswoman than me.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 19, 2012
Now this son's name was Kúraján and there was no doughtier knight in all the force; for he could charge single handed three thousand riders.
From The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 07 by Burton, Richard Francis, Sir
“Turn Around Time” offers no pat answers, and occasionally wanders into thickets of philosophical conjecture and opaque references that may stymie all but the doughtiest of readers.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 11, 2019
Only Munster, who face Biarritz today, now stand in the way of an all-French finale in Paris but even the doughtiest Celtic warrior can sense trouble brewing.
From The Guardian ● May 1, 2010
His doughtiest daughter was Hetep-Heres II, a biological curiosity.
From Time Magazine Archive
The new generation's doughtiest champions have been authors and poets, the very types who were the most closely indentured servants of Stalinism.
From Time Magazine Archive
Not the doughtiest soldier of old Gondor, nor the most savage Orc entrapped, had ever thus endured her, or set blade to her beloved flesh.
From "The Two Towers" by J. R. R. Tolkien
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