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
Judith’s was a nature swayed by impulse, more capable than she herself was aware of noble action, but capable also of sudden, irrational cruelty.
From Judith of the Cumberlands by MacGowan, Alice
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
No matter," cried Loftus; "he was sufficiently rewarded by the consciousness of having done a noble action.
From Auriol or, The Elixir of Life by Ainsworth, W. Harrison
