noble action
Example Sentences
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Knausgaard pushes back against those who believe fiction should only portray noble action and sentiment: the professional takers of offense, the mismanagers of ambiguity.
From New York Times • Dec. 28, 2020
Their noble action has struck chords in our hearts which will vibrate forever.
From Time Magazine Archive
A noble action or a just idea is recognised, whoever may manifest it Some persons, as Mr. Gladstone said of Kinglake's famous book, "were too bad to live and too good to die."
From Bygones Worth Remembering, Vol. 1 (of 2) by Holyoake, George Jacob
I here vow—— Mrs. D. Then first save your brother, who is persecuted for a noble action.
From The Nephews: A Play, in Five Acts. by Iffland, August Wilhelm
Think that day lost whose descending sun Views from thy hand no noble action done.
From On the Portraits of English Authors on Gardening, with Biographical Notices of Them, 2nd edition, with considerable additions by Felton, Samuel
