1 It wouldn't have surprised me in any of the others; those Lebruns are all given to heroics.
2 These heroics of yours have their practical side after all.
3 It would have been impossible for Mrs. Peniston to be heroic on a desert island, but with the eyes of her little world upon her she took a certain pleasure in her act.
4 This smug in-between town, which had exchanged "Money Musk" for phonographs grinding out ragtime, it was neither the heroic old nor the sophisticated new.
5 His gruffness seemed heroic to her.
6 To her he was a superb, boyish, diverting creature; all the heroic qualities in a manly magnificent body.
7 To Hugh, the Red Swede was the most heroic and powerful person in the world.
8 Neither heroic faith nor heroic guilt.
9 I guess it's a joke on me, I was such a simp, I felt quite heroic while I was driving the buggy back that night & keeping Cy away from me.
10 Carol smiled ingratiatingly, to indicate that she was indeed one who desired to sacrifice, but she sighed, "I don't know; I'm afraid I'm not heroic."
11 All that is made such a flourish of in the old South Sea Voyages, those things were but the life-time commonplaces of our heroic Nantucketers.
12 There it was, heroic in size, a picture writing on the sun.
13 Some of those boys came straight from the cornfields with only a summer's wages in their pockets, hung on through the four years, shabby and underfed, and completed the course by really heroic self-sacrifice.
14 There was a singular absence of heroic poses.
15 In their presence he could not persist in flying high with the wings of war; they rendered it almost impossible for him to see himself in a heroic light.