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
He wrote to Hunt himself, and paraded one night, two hours in front of his hotel, in Covent Garden, before he could muster courage sufficient to ask the waiter to take his effusion up.
From Life and Character of Richard Carlile by Holyoake, George Jacob
He drops her hand, and turning hastily away, goes down the corridor, and is beyond recall before she can muster courage to say anything to him kind or forgiving.
From Portia or By Passions Rocked by Duchess
She may have felt a touch of guilt because she could not muster courage to tell her father that she had already visited Mr. Coleman.
From Eleven Possible Cases by Fyles, Franklin
