1 He had finally summoned the courage to descend.
2 "Dispense with all the moral courage you can," I said briskly.
3 For moral courage is a worthless asset on this little floating world.
4 Maud was all this to me, an unfailing source of strength and courage.
5 And so with me if I should exercise what little moral courage I may possess.
6 Leach, one of the men who were murdered, had moral courage to an unusual degree.
7 He seemed, rather, to have the courage of his convictions, the certainty of his manhood.
8 Whatever was to be done I must do for myself; and out of the courage of fear I evolved the plan of fighting Thomas Mugridge with his own weapons.
9 "I say what I think, sir," the sailor answered courageously, not failing at the same time in ship courtesy, which demanded that "sir" be appended to each speech he made.
10 It was also serious, for I learned that he was capable of using it, that under all his cowardice there was a courage of cowardice, like mine, that would impel him to do the very thing his whole nature protested against doing and was afraid of doing.
11 It is no pleasant picture I can conjure up of myself, Humphrey Van Weyden, in that noisome ship's galley, crouched in a corner over my task, my face raised to the face of the creature about to strike me, my lips lifted and snarling like a dog's, my eyes gleaming with fear and helplessness and the courage that comes of fear and helplessness.