How To Use Heroical In A Sentence
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There must be some one for the duke to punish," heroically; "otherwise he will refuse.
The Goose Girl
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It is especially noteworthy that The New York Times, itself culpable of, or accessory to whatever alleged crimes Mr. Assange may be accused of, has kept its lips discretely, if unheroically sealed.
Michael Brenner: Obama's War on WikiLeaks -- and Us
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Such was the heroicall liberality, and exceeding great clemencie of those most honourable
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation
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Behind the bar is Steve, a clumsy, almost heroically inept young oik.
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Prospector George Tannihill christened it in 1866 as a mining district, saying he chose the name to commemorate the fierce battle he and twenty-three settlers led by a Captain Pierson had heroically won against marauding Indians there in 1857.
The Fiddler in the Subway
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The set designer has stripped the stage bare and draped it with heroically scaled posters.
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They heroically defended the freedom of their homeland.
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I drove east on the heroically built old French ski runs.
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Hessians, but were now turned, in the retreat, upon the British -- and which our gunners defended "heroically" to the last.
The Campaign of 1776 around New York and Brooklyn
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I peered over the rock which me and Sara were heroically hiding behind to get a good look at the fabled creatures.
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A strict investigation was made, and it was proved by the testimony of the people in Provincetown that all the apparatus was in perfect order and the keepers and surfmen exerted themselves heroically in aid of the doomed vessel, but that she was stranded so far from shore that it was simply impossible to reach her.
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 099, March, 1876
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The Assembly heroically defied the government once again and rejected the two bills.
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Frank Bascombe struggles conscientiously, if unheroically, with the familiar problems of marriage, job, child-rearing, service to community.
Richard Ford
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And the same were treated by Poets in verse _Exameter_ fauouring the _Heroicall_, and for the grauitie and comelinesse of the meetre most vsed with the Greekes and Latines to sad purposes.
The Arte of English Poesie
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All this work goes on quietly, unheroically, with no awards, medals or statues of recognition.
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The supplier battled heroically to provide an acceptable system, until finally the project was mothballed.
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Medtner's concerto storms right from the opening measures and sings heroically throughout.
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You prevent disasters, don't wait for them to happen, and then "heroically" step in.
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Without adequate doctors, medical facilities, and transportation, the clergymen heroically struggle to save lives and ease the pain of the victims.
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The man himself was killed, merely 22 years old, allegedly, and rather unheroically, run over by a truck.
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He is best known these days for his heroically scaled figurative paintings.
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This heroically scaled space has been transformed into a reading room and library.
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It was heroically daft and had the crowd laughing happily in the sunshine.
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Thousands upon thousands of martyrs have heroically laid down their lives for the people.
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Slowly, reluctantly and most unheroically, he commenced to strip off his clothes.
The Past Through Tomorrow
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GAFFNEY -- A Gaffney man who told reporters he was a Marine heroically rescued from a Cambodian POW camp in 1970 in fact served only 10 months in the Navy and was court-martialed, according to military records obtained by the
Heroes or Villains?
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My imagination caught fire as I envisioned myself as some kind of lantern-jawed “Dudley Do Right”, heroically battling forest fires like a Montana smoke jumper, pulling off death defying back country rescues in the mountain wilderness, and performing other Forest Rangerly and manly acts of derring-do.
Buffalo Bob and the Honey Dipper
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He became the first person in over two decades to be awarded the Victoria Cross after he heroically saved the lives of his comrades in two separate incidents.
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He is famous for the low-down tactic of setting up imaginary, exaggerated villains and dangers and then heroically shooting them down.
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Macaulay's pages with the bustle and variety and animation of some glittering masque and cosmoramic revel of great books and heroical men.
Critical Miscellanies, Volume I (of 3) Essay 4: Macaulay
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Romantic notions of serving his country and fighting heroically intoxicated him.
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And WE -- all those Time Magazine "yous" will collectively and heroically be the victors in a future that will be much, much better than what we have today.
Printing: A Progressive Mandate
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As a dancer, he was heroically proportioned.
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Why would an otherwise brave hero - one of the greatest at Troy - act so unheroically at this point?
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Single parents cope heroically in doing the job of two people.
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He was several centimeters taller than Clan, but his gut bulged unheroically.
Empire Builders
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Some landlords attempted to reassert forced labor dues, which the peasants heroically resisted.
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I unheroically went over, asked if he was all right and what had happened.
Times, Sunday Times
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The elite group of airmen heroically fought in World War II.
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All these years they have been fighting heroically for independence.
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To confront death, to risk death heroically was a greater adventure than any he had ever undertaken.
DREAMS OF INNOCENCE
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Elections used to be heroically corrupt.
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They will fall prey to maddening and unpreventable guerrilla attacks rather than dying heroically during a lightning strike on Baghdad.
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For five and a half years, McCain endured heroically.
Lance Mannion:
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Generations of Joneses have served heroically on the battlefield, from the beaches of Tarawa in World War II, to Foxtrot Ridge in Vietnam.
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Comprising three three-hour plays, it is heroically ambitious and wildly uneven.
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In his heyday he was beloved as a comic genius, first from his radio days on The Goon Show, and then in his highly successful years on film, playing a long line of memorable characters headed by the heroically buffoonish Inspector Clouseau.
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Zoya heroically bore the torture that the Fascists inflicted upon her.
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I'm rather dubious about my chances of making it straight to heaven, unless I die heroically as a martyr or saving lives— which of course would be too gratifying, which is why it probably won't happen.
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They had worked heroically to meet the deadline.
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He heroically defended democratic principles.
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The same aria is used in another ad for athletic shoes, sung to visuals of stouthearted runners straining heroically toward a finish line.
Does reading on the internet count as reading?
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The other two men ditch him as a liability, and he dies of gangrene caused unheroically by ill-fitting clogs.
And So It Went
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Moreover, whenever people are shown, they are usually going about their daily business rather than posing or behaving heroically.
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Subsequent reports indicated he probably died from friendly fire, although still while trying to heroically assault an enemy position.
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She worked heroically to help others escape.
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Eventually the fire fighters exit the building unheroically, no women strewn over any shoulders, not even a scared kitty reunited with joyful owners, and even more disappointingly, none drop trou or so much as remove a shirt to reveal achingly chiselled pecs and a waxed-smooth toned torso as those calendars would have you believe.
Archive 2008-10-01
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Israel's prime minister has praised the naval commandos who participated in the deadly May raid on a Gaza-bound ship, saying they acted "heroically," "ethically" and "with restraint.
Netanyahu Praises Israeli Troops Who Raided Gaza-Bound Flotilla
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So, sorry to spoil all those dramatic ideas about me heroically battling with sails on the foredeck in monster seas and high winds, but this particular voyage is more about cutting down on risks, lots of preparation, and sticking it out for a very! long time rather than edge-of-your-seat action sailing.
True Spirit
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A new mural on the outside wall of the town hall depicts, in raw Forties naturalist style, a German soldier heroically protecting his womenfolk.
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We see firefighters heroically battling a blaze.
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Historians and politicians skillfully crafted the narrative of an active middle class who (in retrospect) had heroically waged the revolutionary struggle.
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Senate unheroically, blindly and repugnantly voted yes for the Detainee Bill.
MY COUNTRY RIGHT OR WRONG?
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The slab tower rests on poured-in-place-concrete pilotis, which hold it, heroically, 56 feet off the ground and 30 feet above the track bed of the High Line.
New York's Standard Hotel
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Federico Bonelli and Inaki Urlezaga will dance the rather heroically-challenged part of Daphnis, the lover boy who languishes in a faint while his abducted inamorata risks ravishing by pirates.
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he become reconciled to not dying heroically in her arms
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Now they've heroically made the title available again, not only as hard copy for £10 through print-on-demand, but also as a free PDF download (13. 55MB).
Division of Labour
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The six tiny horsemen heroically refused to flirt back.
Times, Sunday Times
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He is famous for the low-down tactic of setting up imaginary, exaggerated villains and dangers and then heroically shooting them down.
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Isaac fought heroically to regain his legal portion of the thoroughfare.
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They also often act more selfishly and unheroically than the more likable characters.
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The efforts of self-reliant individuals working heroically to rebuild their homes and neighborhoods will all be for naught if a lack of flood protection makes this area uninsurable, and economically inviable.
Archive 2008-06-01
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The cast change costumes, accents and personas manically and heroically.
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In Britain, the badge of distinction awarded to historic buildings is unheroically called ` listing’.
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They made a point of telling us that both David and Fran had acted "heroically", that they had done all they could, each trying to protect the other, and that they had simply never seen a calmer and more self-possessed individual than Fran in any similar situation, concerning which they had all too much experience, including another case elsewhere that same afternoon.
NASA Watch: Keith Cowing: April 2007 Archives
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Most of the cast die heroically, stupidly, or arbitrarily, which is realistic enough.
Reviews Too Late: Saints and Soldiers
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Widders is volubly, heroically, incorrigibly nondiplomatic.
The U.K.'s Most Terrifying Spinster
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The bystanders heroically rescued her from under a school bus.
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Pre-Christian warriors hoped to meet a quick, short death, hopefully heroically in battle.
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A 28-year-old employee heroically attempted to keep thugs from robbing her store.
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She died heroically during an assault on the world's second-highest mountain.
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That's a vile book in which white supremacists "heroically" exterminate every Jewish American and ever non-white American.
Center for American Progress Action Fund
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If they were heroically cursed, this loss of a superstar to a nearby rival would have caused the Rangers to win a World Series.
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The 34-year-old mother of two heroically confronted the gunman and averted an even greater massacre.
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Hour is ripe to recall unnumbered tribulations, sacrifices heroically endured by the dawn-breakers, culminating in Bahá’u’lláh’s afflictive imprisonment in
Citadel of Faith
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No feast at any court in those days was complete without this diversion of recitation, when the nation's heroes, or some passage from its greater classics, furnished the theme; or when some improvisator wove a tissue of myth and legend, embroidered with fact, which won its way through confiding ages as historic truth, till the time, growing sophisticated, laid it heroically aside for a curio.
The Royal Pawn of Venice A Romance of Cyprus
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There were lots of familiar faces on hand, actually -- John Mutter of Shelf Awareness, "heroically" navigating the crowded aisles his write-up of the show today is far more coherent than mine, along with Todd from Thuglit, Carolyn from Bookstream, and Tom from Norton, and I know there were others around that I didn't manage to cross paths with.
Chronicle: Book Nerd Among Comics Geeks
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The quote has to be heroically stupid to warrant a click and your output so far has been banal, trite and dim, typical BT crud in other words.
Dear "Iceman": Bitch and moan much?
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The history books are littered with the names of intrepid British explorers who died heroically while quenching their thirst for knowledge.
The Sun
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James Wakefield hoped to win back his girlfriend's affections by having her abducted by a friend, then "heroically" rescuing her, a court heard.
Archive 2008-07-28
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Given birth, or stood heroically near by while your partner pushed and perspired.
Politics
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The heroically scaled foyer is an attempt to recreate the glamour and escapism of old cinemas.
