Word: braved
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...middle of a saddleless, bridleless journey. The horse, whose plump body and delicate, spindly legs were more Chinese than European, stood with its neck stretched straight out; the flowing horizontal from its muzzle to its tail was unbroken except by the rider, who looked both babyish and brave-lonely, puzzled and somehow heroic...
Home of the Brave. Hollywood's first crack at anti-Negro discrimination, delivered with the courage of its convictions (TIME...
...lives of the people who work with them, how the spirit of the fight captures the toreador, how he rassles with fear, and how fear sometimes wins. This picture of a peoples' spirit behind the great pageant of the corrida required a novel. Tom Lea called his novel "The Brave Bulls...
Finally, the author succeeds in his major purpose of making his audience understand the bull fight, its violence, bloodshed, and death. The bull is not the hopeless underdog most American think it is. In Lea's books, the bull becomes the brave animal whose fighting spirit is the prime example of valor. Man must muster all his skill, artistry, bravery, and strength to conquer the animal, and he does not always win. In painting the skillful technique which brings the bull to his death, Lea creates a picture of violence and beauty--a rare combination that makes bull fighting...
...bachelor who receives visitors at odd hours, La Pipelette can keep a discreet tongue in her head-for a consideration, of course. For the brave young couple on the fifth floor struggling along on nothing a year-well, La Pipelette might act as baby-sitter for one evening, and there would be no charge...