1 Stepping lightly, and continually glancing at her husband, showing him a valorous and sympathetic face, Kitty went into the sick-room, and, turning without haste, noiselessly closed the door.
2 The blood went bounding along his veins; and the thoughts went rioting through his brain, proud, joyful, tender, valorous.
3 Those who by valorous ways become princes, like these men, acquire a principality with difficulty, but they keep it with ease.
The Prince By Niccolo MachiavelliContext Highlight In CHAPTER VI — CONCERNING NEW PRINCIPALITIES WHICH ARE ACQU... 4 Some talked of gray, bewhiskered hordes who were advancing with relentless curses and chewing tobacco with unspeakable valor; tremendous bodies of fierce soldiery who were sweeping along like the Huns.
5 He began to exaggerate the endurance, the skill, and the valor of those who were coming.
6 The guns, stolid and undaunted, spoke with dogged valor.
7 In encounters with guards and patrols he displayed the keenness of a detective and the valor of a gamin.
8 For a moment his face lost its valor and he looked guiltily about him.
9 But the army, the Russian army, everyone declared, was extraordinary and had achieved miracles of valor.
10 yes, those exploits of antique valor, he went on rapidly.
11 Their valor was something indescribable.
Les Misérables (V2) By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER X—THE PLATEAU OF MONT-SAINT-JEAN