muster courage

Example Sentences

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There are multiple ways this crisis can be addressed if elected officials muster courage to restore safety and civility.

From Seattle Times • Apr. 19, 2019

Snarling at Russia's flanks, two jackals last week tried to muster courage to spring for the kill.

From Time Magazine Archive

I should have liked to ask how long he had been in Wales, for I had been secretly offended at his apparent neglect of me; but I could not muster courage for the question.

From Willing to Die by Le Fanu, Joseph Sheridan

"I don't know," said the youth, a little nettled, "I think I could muster courage to face a bullet."

From Tales for Fifteen by Cooper, James Fenimore

In winter Burbank's Northwestern Express carried the mails and the very few passengers that could muster courage to make the toilsome journey; and well do I remember my trip over this route.

From Sword and Pen Ventures and Adventures of Willard Glazier by Owens, John Algernon