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

My head aches, and my eyes ache, and my heart aches, and I cannot muster courage to write any more.

From Records of Later Life by Kemble, Fanny

It was already midnight ere I could muster courage to set out,—not that the hour was inappropriate, for the Marchesa's receptions only began when the opera was over.

From Confessions Of Con Cregan An Irish Gil Blas by Lever, Charles James

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