Word: braved
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Where Casey runs a tabble dote, and folks are brave 'nd true...
...leading matadors perform. They included: Marcial Lalanda, long considered the best; Nicanor Villalta and Vincente Barrera, also oldtimers; Domingo Ortega, who in his second season is the most talked of matador in Spain; Jaime Noaín, another fast-rising youth; Luis Fuentes Bejarano, who is sometimes brave, sometimes funny...
Butterflies are strong and brave. The milkweed has been seen 100 miles at sea. It flies 10 to 15 feet above the water at a speed of 20 m.p.h., always in a straight line. Mr. Clark says he once saw a blue swallowtail chasing an English sparrow...
...brave Yawalapiti would not for a long time touch the "egg" dropped by the sky-thing. When it gave out no sound, no movement, no smell, one brave ventured to poke it with his fishing spear. The sack uttered a tinkle. The Yawalapiti leaped upon it, ripped it with his sharp spear. Out fell knives, fishhooks and other trade goods-which delighted them...
...questions & answers in his book, suggests more than he states outright. On the question of overwhelming Evil he says: "If evil were not hidden like impure germs disseminated in our system, there would not be a single sane person on earth." This Truth he associates with a Good: "Brave sadness does for us what winter does for the earth...