"Lion-hearted" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... Palestine; few could resist those who had. And so strongly was the European heart then stirred,—so profound the emotions excited by those events, that their influence is felt even at this distant period. The highest praise yet awarded to valour is, that it recalls the lion-hearted Richard; the most envied meed bestowed on beauty, that it rivals the fascination of Armida. No monument is yet approached by the generous and brave with such emotion as those now mouldering in our churches, which represent the warrior lying with his arms crossed ...
— Blackwoods Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 59, No. 366, April, 1846 • Various
... voice, that did not tally at all with the air of a lion-hearted and outspoken popular leader, which Mr. Wenzel had assumed in the street, struck terror and consternation into the souls of the men who had so rashly followed him into ...
— LOUISA OF PRUSSIA AND HER TIMES • Louise Muhlbach
... in Company C who was usually troubled with a deficiency in his knees at such times. Though sufficiently warlike and lion-hearted by nature, no doubt, yet his legs were his undoing. They worked very well, when steered for the rear, but otherwise they were a failure. When the firing began on the right, he took his position behind the pit with an air of great determination. ...
— In The Ranks - From the Wilderness to Appomattox Court House • R. E. McBride
... well—one of the most popular comedians in the English section—draws first rate. There are better, of course—people that were never heard of on earth —but Charles is making a very good reputation indeed, and is considered a rising man. Richard the Lion-hearted is in the prize-ring, and coming into considerable favor. Henry the Eighth is a tragedian, and the scenes where he kills people are done to the very life. Henry the Sixth keeps a ...
— Innocents abroad • Mark Twain
... Captain Barney struggled in the bow. It was a fight that would have thrilled the soul of whoever could have seen it. But that is always the way in the bravest, most hopeless fights—no one ever sees them. They are fought alone, in the dark, on the sea; and sometimes the lion-hearted live to make a modest tale of it around a winter's fire; but more often the sequel ...
— Dan Merrithew • Lawrence Perry
... the king of England, Richard the Lion-Hearted, who had been absent from England on a Crusade and had come back without allowing his brother John ...
— Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 6 • Charles H. Sylvester |
