doughty
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Young readers will cheer for the doughty girl, who braves the razored depths to haul the baby dragon to safety in this satisfying, sumptuously illustrated fable translated from the French by Alyson Waters.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2025
In public he has been a doughty defender of independence, a parliamentary performer not averse to barracking and heckling his political opponents.
From BBC ● Apr. 30, 2024
All of that adds — you might say operatically — welcome glamour to the otherwise doughty Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, which is in desperate need of renovation.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 15, 2023
His doughty performance, punctuated by that final dash to victory, spoke the loudest.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 29, 2023
The French awarded the doughty little pigeon their Croix de Guerre medal for bravery under fire.
From "The War to End All Wars: World War I" by Russell Freedman
But then that doughtier, more familiar English trait—worldly scepticism—must and will reassert itself.
From Economist ● Jun. 24, 2016
Rugby union has known few doughtier competitors than the All Black captain and, should he become the first person to guide his side to two consecutive World Cup triumphs, it will merely underline that fact.
From The Guardian ● Oct. 29, 2015
The 24-year-old was outstanding in dry, firm conditions against Scotland at the start of the Six Nations but England preferred the doughtier Brad Barritt at inside centre in the latter half of the campaign.
From The Guardian ● Apr. 29, 2013
But I'm afraid the task would take a doughtier woodswoman than me.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 19, 2012
He had ceased to rehearse the speech a doughtier Baird would now have been hearing.
From Merton of the Movies by Wilson, Harry Leon
“Turn Around Time” offers no pat answers, and occasionally wanders into thickets of philosophical conjecture and opaque references that may stymie all but the doughtiest of readers.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 11, 2019
Only Munster, who face Biarritz today, now stand in the way of an all-French finale in Paris but even the doughtiest Celtic warrior can sense trouble brewing.
From The Guardian ● May 1, 2010
In his hard-hitting campaign to unseat Illinois' three-term Democratic Senator Paul Douglas, 74, comely, honey-haired Valerie Percy, 21, a June graduate of Cornell, proved one of Chuck Percy's doughtiest aides.
From Time Magazine Archive
One of the doughtiest soldiers of the modern world of ideological civil war is too obscurely defined in the U.S. ken.
From Time Magazine Archive
Not the doughtiest soldier of old Gondor, nor the most savage Orc entrapped, had ever thus endured her, or set blade to her beloved flesh.
From "The Two Towers" by J. R. R. Tolkien
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