Use heroes in a sentence
Sentences starting with heroes
- Heroes grew cautious. [5]
Sentences ending with heroes
- Still another set would take it to build a monument to the memory of those heroes. [6]
- Cornelia's lips grow white, and her pulse hardly warms her thin fingers,--but she has melted all the ice out of the hearts of those young Gracchi, and her lost heat is in the blood of her youthful heroes. [6]
- In memory of which event, we exchanged boxes, like two Homeric heroes. [6]
- Oh, they are true heroes! [8]
- His father had told him much, and the doctor still more, about the wide, wide world-kings, artists and great heroes. [10]
- That's the way to honor your public heroes. [5]
- And I was thrilled with a strange reverence such as I have sometimes since felt in the presence of heroes. [9]
- With an ironical smile Psamtik sat watching this scene--the pleased faces of Amasis, Croesus and Gyges, the meaning glances of the Egyptians, and the contented looks with which Aristomachus gazed on the young heroes. [10]
- In Gilpin's "Forest Scenery" there is the story of one of these horseback heroes. [6]
- He was no priest, although a scribe; he was a warrior, and yet he did not rank with royal heroes. [10]
Short sentences using heroes
- She must have heroes. [11]
Sentences containing heroes two or more times
- Our thinkers are no heroes, and our heroes are no sages. [10]
More example sentences with the word heroes in them
- They have freed your flag where the white Pole-Star Hangs out its auroral flame; Where the bones of your Franklin's heroes are They have honoured your ancient name. [11]
- Do you think you can make your heroes and heroines,--nay, even your scrappy supernumeraries,--out of refuse material, as you made your scarecrow? [6]
- I do not wonder that Walter Scott dwells so much on eating, or lets his heroes pull at the pewter mugs so often. [4]
- Amasis laughed heartily with his friends at Gyges' artifice, allowed the young heroes to mix freely with his family, and behaved towards them himself as a jovial father towards his merry sons. [10]
- Sparkling on their white-robed breasts or shoulders were the colors of their favorite knights, and were it not for the fact that the doughty heroes appeared on unromantic mules, it would have been easy to imagine one of King Arthur's gala-days. [5]
- The cream from which heroes is made is very apt to turn. [9]
- I said it was expensive, unnecessary, and awkwardly constructed; there were no descriptive passages in it, no poetry, no sentiment no heroes, no plot, no pictures--not even wood-cuts. [5]
- Tradition says he was a favorite god on the Island of Hawaii--a great king who had been deified for meritorious services--just our own fashion of rewarding heroes, with the difference that we would have made him a Postmaster instead of a god, no doubt. [5]
- They were a vain and boastful company of heroes when the tale was done. [5]
- The worthies who took care of our grandfathers and great-grandfathers, like the Revolutionary heroes, fought (with disease) and bled (their patients) and died (in spite of their own remedies); but their names, once familiar, are heard only at rare intervals. [3]
- The day, dedicated to the memory of heroes fallen in the Civil War, the thirtieth of May, was a legal holiday. [9]
- I half expected to see the Athenian heroes of twenty centuries ago glide out of the shadows and steal into the old temple they knew so well and regarded with such boundless pride. [5]
- They were ready to do and to suffer anything for their faith, and a faith which breeds heroes is better than an unbelief which leaves nothing worth being a hero for. [6]
- Flitting about were to be seen the social heroes who had a notoriety thirty and forty years ago in the newspapers. [4]
- Who could fail to admire the beauty of the young heroes, your friends? [10]
- For a long time I was the moving spirit in this play, and we had no lack of talented mimes, personators of sentimental heroes, and droll comedians. [10]
- Wake, and raise thy voice in numbers Sing to Homer, to the bard Who has given life immortal To the heroes of his lay. [10]
- We wandered for three hours among the chambers and crypts and dungeons of the fortress, and trod where the mailed heels of many a knightly Crusader had rang, and where Phenician heroes had walked ages before them. [5]
- Not only did they so decide at that time, but they stuck to it during sixty years, through thick and thin, as long as there was one of the Revolutionary heroes upon the stage of political action. [7]
- Then he remembered the vows of tenderness he had translated at Kochel's, falteringly repeated them, and fell on one knee before her, like all the heroes in adventures and romances. [10]
- Today four of the ringleaders have been sentenced to heavy punishment of a public sort--and are become local heroes, by consequence. [5]
- My ideas of the heroes of Polish liberty had been formed from Heinrich Heine's Noble Pole, and I met my companion with a certain feeling of distrust. [10]
- Is it possible that our highest civilization has lost something of the rough and admirable element that we admire in the heroes of Homer and of Elizabeth? [4]
- This is the stuff of which heroes and martyrs are made. [4]
- They do not recognize it as a power inherent in heroes and rulers, but as the resultant of a multiplicity of variously directed forces. [2]
- English and alien poets, statesmen, artists, heroes, battles, plagues, cataclysms, revolutions--we shoveled them all into the English fences according to their dates. [5]
- But this tramp only asked--"Were any of these heroes men of science? [5]
- The discourses delivered on these occasions are commonly worth reading, for there was never a clearing made in the forest that did not let in the light on heroes and heroines. [6]
- What had become of the heroes and the high-minded princes of the house of Ptolemy? [10]
- Hence his love of heroes, his rule of life, and his clear convictions of the high destiny of the soul. [6]
- But the hero of heroes was Prince Bagration, distinguished by his Schon Grabern affair and by the retreat from Austerlitz, where he alone had withdrawn his column unbroken and had all day beaten back an enemy force twice as numerous as his own. [2]
- In the alcoves of death, in the charnels of time, Where flit the gaunt spectres of passion and crime, There are triumphs untold, there are martyrs unsung, There are heroes yet silent to speak with his tongue! [6]
- In the alcoves of death, in the charnels of time, Where flit the dark spectres of passion and crime, There are triumphs untold, there are martyrs unsung, There are heroes yet silent to speak with his tongue! [6]
- But the Turks' numbers were greatly superior and threatened to crush the heroes, when Don Miguel Cervantes, Ulrich's friend, appeared with twelve fresh soldiers on the scene of battle, and cut their way to the hard-pressed champions. [10]
- The best known names in the Territory of Nevada were those belonging to these long-tailed heroes of the revolver. [5]
- And now farewell, my young heroes, till we meet again this evening over a merry wine-cup. [10]
- I have found my eyes dimmed over them oftener than once, more with thinking about her, perhaps, than about her heroes and heroines. [6]
- Those who made merry there were soon to be driven and scattered before the winds of war; to die at Wilson's Creek, or Shiloh, or to be spared for heroes of the Wilderness. [9]
- We have had many heroes, many youths of promise, and men of note, whose names are our only great and enduring riches; but no one of them all better illustrated, short as was his career, the virtues we desire for all our sons. [4]
- If I should live a hundred years, I should wish nothing better than the honour of having served the men whose forefathers served Frontenac, Cartier, La Salle and Maisonneuve, and all the splendid heroes of that ancient age. [11]
- He patted the lion with soothing words of praise, and exclaimed, contemptuously: "These are the descendants of the Macedonians, with whom the greatest of heroes conquered the world! [10]
- Homer's heroes seemed like giant oaks, which far overtopped the little trees of the human wood. [10]
- Peter Petrovich Konovnitsyn, like Dokhturov, seems to have been included merely for propriety's sake in the list of the so-called heroes of 1812--the Barclays, Raevskis, Ermolovs, Platovs, and Miloradoviches. [2]
- Some of the lifeless heroes were just being borne past on litters, greeted by the wine-flushed faces of armed students and citizens. [10]
- However, mine can lie unpublished a year or two as well as not--though I wish that contributor of yours had not interfered with his coincidence of heroes. [5]
- And when at length they arrived they brought with them from the East certain heroes fashionably clad, citizens now of a larger world than mine. [9]
- The ancients have left us model heroic poems in which the heroes furnish the whole interest of the story, and we are still unable to accustom ourselves to the fact that for our epoch histories of that kind are meaningless. [2]
- Not the stained laurel such as heroes wear That withers when some stronger conqueror's heel Treads down their shrivelling trophies in the dust; But the fair garland whose undying green Not time can change, nor wrath of gods or men! [6]
- It was with just such blades as these that these splendid heroes of romance used to segregate a man, so to speak, and leave the half of him to fall one way and the other half the other. [5]
- The rink has its world as the opera has, its romances and its heroes. [4]
- The emperor said it was--but charitably advised him to go and hunt hares and not endanger so precious a life as his in an attempt which had brought death to so many of the world's most illustrious heroes. [5]
- It is in human nature to like rest but not restriction, bounty but not charity, and the tired heroes of the war grow restless, though every physical want is supplied. [4]
- But I know how heroes should be rewarded, and I offer you my lips to kiss. [10]
- Biographical historians and historians of separate nations understand this force as a power inherent in heroes and rulers. [2]
- She had wrapped him in that diaphanous substance with which young ladies (and sometimes older ones) are wont to deck their heroes. [9]
- Farewell, my young heroes, go forward and conquer! [10]
- He led the heroes and heroines a wilder dance than ever; and yet all through it ran that same convincing air of honesty and earnestness that had marked his first work. [5]
- Tell them,' said he, 'that my friends shall share my fortunes; that France needs us; that Pontiac shall be called the nest of heroes. [11]
- Or is it he who stays the iron hand, who puts nettles in Voban's cold, cold bed, that he may rise early and go forth among the heroes? [11]
- These heroes might have their hero-worship. [9]
- Mine--though my mother has laughed at my belief, and others have dared to do the same-mine, five hundred years ago, dwelt in the greatest of heroes, Alexander the Macedonian--a right royal tabernacle! [10]
- In our own generation the heroes and heroines of fiction begin to appear in real life, in dress and manner, while they are still warm from the press. [4]
- And because they fought well and hacked each other to pieces like devils, they have been heroes for centuries. [6]
- You need only forget to ask how the will of heroes produces events, and such histories as Thiers' will be interesting and instructive and may perhaps even possess a tinge of poetry. [2]
- What cared we for outward visions, when Agamemnon, Achilles, and a thousand other heroes of the great Past were marching in ghostly procession through our fancies? [5]
- That is unfair, for he--who is now with the justified--was without an equal; at once the bravest of heroes and the most skilful of scribes. [10]
- The plain of Esdraelon--"the battle-field of the nations"--only sets one to dreaming of Joshua, and Benhadad, and Saul, and Gideon; Tamerlane, Tancred, Coeur de Lion, and Saladin; the warrior Kings of Persia, Egypt's heroes, and Napoleon--for they all fought here. [5]
- Statues had been erected of himself, of his father, his mother, and even of his favorite heroes, above all of Alexander the Great; triumphal arches without number had been constructed. [10]
- It seemed curious enough to be standing face to face, as it were, with old Dagobert I., and Clovis and Charlemagne, those vague, colossal heroes, those shadows, those myths of a thousand years ago! [5]
- Uncle and nephew emerged from the battle as heroes worthy of renown, but the glory of this victory clung to Don Juan's name. [10]
- Readers of Homer do not want to be reminded that _hippodamoio_, horse-subduer, is the genitive of an epithet applied as a chief honor to the most illustrious heroes. [6]
- His heroes are divine, you must admit. [9]
- That sentence of death had been pronounced on Croesus and the young heroes, was by no means an unwelcome thought either, as they might have been instrumental in bringing his intrigues to light. [10]
- That was a day of tragedy, when you and Rudyard Byng won a hundred Royal Humane Society medals, and we all felt like martyrs and heroes. [11]
- We saw the damp, dismal cells in which two of Dumas' heroes passed their confinement--heroes of "Monte Cristo. [5]
- One load of corn goes to the sty, and makes the fat of swine,--another goes to the farm-house, and becomes the muscle that clothes the right arms of heroes. [6]
- Accustomed to the company of dead statesmen and heroes, his own ideas had risen to a higher standard. [6]
- The most illustrious chiefs of the church wrote to the King extolling the Maid, comparing her to the saints and heroes of the Bible, and warning him not to let "unbelief, ingratitude, or other injustice" hinder or impair the divine help sent through her. [5]
- It is the charm of Fortress Monroe that its heroes are kept from ennui by the company assembled there, and that they can be of service to society. [4]
- The nation's heroes came into inevitable comparison with Jethro Bass. [9]
- Which it did, but not to much purpose, for it was only under her eye that men were heroes and not afraid. [5]
- And will she build a monument scaled to their rank as compared with the world's other fields and heroes? [5]
- The Victoria Cross breeds more heroes than-- Y.M. [5]
- Decorous chronicles and biographies and monographs and eulogies exist, bound in leather and stamped in gold, each lauding its own hero: chronicles written in really beautiful language, and high-minded and noble, out of which the heroes come unstained. [9]
- Another and a better man gave up the keys, for heroes are sometimes hidden away in meek and retiring people who wear spectacles and have a stoop to their shoulders. [9]
- To have her beloved South abused, to have her heroes ridiculed, was more than she could bear. [9]
- We cannot go behind that statute except to collect the legends and write homilies about the heroes who held the bridges. [9]
- Many heroes have been described to us in verse and prose, but of Dokhturov scarcely a word has been said. [2]
- The Italians, to be sure, know how to make capital out of poets and heroes, and are quick to learn the curiosity of foreigners, and to gratify it for a compensation. [4]
- The group loitered away, still recalling memories of the lost heroes, in awed voices. [5]
- These men, carried away by their passions, were but blind tools of the most melancholy law of necessity, but considered themselves heroes and imagined that they were accomplishing a most noble and honorable deed. [2]
- Is it that as the winds blow north and south, So must be praises from the loud world's mouth, Which on its heroes in their glory fall? [11]
- With its destruction are obliterated some of the footprints of the heroes and martyrs who took the first steps in the long and bloody march which led us through the wilderness to the promised land of independent nationality. [6]
- Honest Captain Timothy and his Stark heroes, Aunt Lucy and her memories, have long gone to rest. [9]
- Has he heroes and heroines whom the reader admires, admires, and knows why? [5]
- Has he heroes and heroines who are not cads and cadesses? [5]
- The soldiers, officers, and generals were heroes. [2]
- Mrs. F. was an able romancist of the ineffable school--I know no other name to apply to a school whose heroes are all dainty and all perfect. [5]
- Little was spoken among these heroes of "the mighty word. [10]
- I represent him among other heroes such as Caracalla might be. [10]
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