valor

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Without this King, all its valors, disciplines, resources of war, would have availed Prussia little.

From History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 21 by Carlyle, Thomas

The orator sees himself the organ of a multitude, and concentrating their valors and powers:   "But now the blood of twenty thousand men   Blushed in my face."

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 02, No. 11, September, 1858 by Various

Their captain clad in purple, armed in gold,   That seems so fierce, so hardy, stout and strong,   The Moors or weak Arabians vanquish could,   Yet can he not resist your valors long.

From Jerusalem Delivered by Fairfax, Edward

The one, when upon the approaches of armies in the face one of the other, particular persons have made challenges for trial of valors in the field upon the public quarrel.

From The World's Best Orations, Vol. 1 (of 10) by Various

Caratach, in Fletcher's Bonduca, when admonished to inquire the mind of the god Audate, replies,— "His hidden meaning lies in our endeavors; Our valors are our best gods."

From Essays — First Series by Emerson, Ralph Waldo