Word: nobler
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...western plains produced few nobler redskins than Chief Sitting Bull, last great leader of the Sioux tribes. It was Sitting Bull, driven to recklessness by the perfidy of the U.S. Government, who cried, "Let us have one big fight with the soldiers," and assembled the awesome army that wiped out General George Custer and soldiers of the 7th Cavalry at the Battle of the Little Big Horn in 1876. But 14 years later, conquered by the forces of the Great White Father, Sitting Bull was old, fat and quiet. One frosty morning in 1890, a detachment of Indian police galloped...
Gabrialson then proposed Honorary Vice President of the Convention, a nobler variant of Assistant Honorary Sargent-At-Arms which was handed out to one man in every delegation. This had no more appeal than his earlier attempt, and another boxing match began. The shouting and swinging lasted until Gabrialson made yet another try, Assistant Honorary Vice-President of the Convention. Both sides rose in noizy protest at that point, for it seems that titles carry honor in inverse proportion to length, and neither side was satisfied. During the melee that followed, someone yelled that Blenes was a disbarred lawyer...
...NOBLER than paganism; cheaper than Christianity." So, last week, an Anglican bishop in a London speech, described the message of Islam...
...Thomas put it, "Of the practical sciences, that one is nobler which is ordained to a more final end . . . But the purpose of sacred doctrine, in so far as it is practical, is eternal beatitude, to which as an ultimate end the ends of all practical sciences (music and art among them) are directed." Summa Theological...
...possible for us, had we been victorious, to embrace the vanquished with a similar magnanimity. Clearly, it would have been different ... Indeed, an incalculable ideological distance separates America from Japan. After all, we were not beaten on the battlefields by dint of superior arms. We were defeated by a nobler ideal...