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mock-heroic

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For others life is but a foolish leisure with mock activities and mimic avocations to mask its uselessness.

Again, she was present at the battle of Silan, where her heroic example of courage infused new life into her brother rebels.

It is not likely that the inhabitants of Ivrea, who thus commemorate her heroic deed, will ever forget their Mugnaia.

All men are not heroes, and in many countries men may become average hunters without being particularly heroic.

Now men laughed at him, pointed to him with their fingers, and made their children mock and hoot the penniless insolvent.

We shook each other by the hand, and congratulated one another mutually, as if we had done some great and heroic deed.

He was in love, and, being very young, wanted to do something insanely heroic.

Edward sent him to London, 'fettered on a hackney,' to undergo the same barbarous death as his heroic brother.

Books of impassioned poetry, and descriptions of heroic character and achievements, were her especial delight.

William Eaton, an American general, died; celebrated for his heroic achievements in the expedition against Tripoli, 1798.

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OCTOBER 26, 1985