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
That a man does a noble action, although it opposes our interests, awakens in us a certain sympathy for that action and its author.
From Lectures on the true, the beautiful and the good by Cousin, Victor
It would be a noble action of yours to make the fortune of a poor man.
From Fairy Tales From all Nations by Montalba, Anthony R.
And here I may be permitted to record the thanks of all well-meaning people for the noble action of Messrs. Gilmore and Baldwin.
From Music and Some Highly Musical People by Trotter, James M.
