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Example sentences for "doughty"

Lexicographically close words:
doughter; doughters; doughtie; doughtiest; doughtily; doughy; douk; douking; doulce; douleur
  1. He was still a bachelor, but was an unwearied wooer, and greatly desired to pass for a doughty knight, and an irresistible invader of the hearts of the fair of every rank.

  2. I am happy to say, that the memory of Sir Bevis is still fragrant in his town of Southampton; the gate of which is sentinelled by the effigies of that doughty knight errant and his gigantic associate.

  3. The doughty old servitor thereupon declared that, as he hoped to sit down to the supper of the Lamb in heaven with his master, so he would continue to do on earth, when the Lord’s table was spread in the Village Church.

  4. He had definite ideas upon certain subjects still, and was doughty in their defence.

  5. Their chieftain was a man of fame, And doughty deeds had wrought, man, 10 Which future ages still shall name, And tell how well he fought, man.

  6. It fell about the Lammas tide, When the muir-men win their hay, The doughty Douglas bound him to ride Into England, to drive a prey.

  7. Presumably each doughty warrior knows his own country better than that of the other, which would carry a conclusion directly contrary to that which he draws.

  8. Rumma converge in lower Kasim, and at Aneza Doughty says its bed is 3 m.

  9. Doughty adds that the Nejd highlands between Kasim and Mecca are watered yearly by seasonable rains, which at Taif are expected about the end of August and last commonly from four to six weeks.

  10. We scale the walls of Constantinople with doughty Bishop Nivelon, builder of Soissons Cathedral, we are ransomed from Saracen captivity with Bishop Albéric, builder of Rheims.

  11. Now Mardas had many enemies, and the men of his tribe were the bravest of all the Arabs, being doughty cavaliers, none might warm himself at their fire.

  12. The knights laughed at sight of its lofty battlements, as promising doughty fighting, and sat down for the siege, awaiting the coming of Raymond from Constantinople.

  13. The doughty doctor simply laughed quietly and told the immigrants to push on, and he would see them through.

  14. Broughton, and with the best crew and best general equipment yet seen on the coast, it would have been expected that the doughty Briton would have found all the important places yet unfound.

  15. As this doughty cavalier was one day hunting, he stationed himself in a thicket, on the borders of a green glade of the forest, and dispersed his followers to rouse the game, and drive it toward his stand.

  16. One of the most fruitful sources of dispute between these two doughty rivals was the right claimed by the governor to have all things passed free of duty through the city that were intended for the use of himself or his garrison.

  17. Waverley, with feelings more easily conceived than described, saw himself obliged to follow this doughty female commander.

  18. She had no suspicion, at this moment, what actually doughty work Slocumb was doing, just in her rear.

  19. Knights from far and near flocked to break a lance in honour of the fair damsel, but, though many doughty deeds were done, the prize fell to Sir Amys.

  20. Wott ye weAEsAEs, with Ioy and blis Sir Torent there recevid ys, As doughty man~ of dede.

  21. Of aAEsAEs the justis, that were thare, A way the gre his sonnys bare, That doughty were in dede.

  22. IaEuro(TM)ll tell you of a doughty knight.

  23. The doughty Douglas on a stede, he rode alle his men beforne; His armor glytteyrde as dyd a glede[49]; a boldar barne was never born.

  24. At Otterburn begane this spume upon a Monnynday; There was the doughty Douglas slean, the Percy never went away.

  25. The Percy out of Northumberlande, and a vowe to God mayd he That he would hunte in the mountayns of Cheviot within days thre, In the magger[42] of doughty Douglas, and all that ever with him be.

  26. Word ys commen to Eddenburrowe, to Jamy the Scottische kynge, That doughty Douglas, lyff-tenant of the Marches, he lay slean Cheviot within.

  27. Throughe our Yngglyshe archery gave many a wounde fulle wyde; Many a doughty they garde to dy, which ganyde them no pryde.

  28. But that doughty person had fought his way, in one department or another, through the greater part of the Thirty Years' War in Germany, a period when a brave and successful soldier was a companion for princes.

  29. So the tale begins, while at the end the knight is represented exulting in his doughty action: “Hurrah, hurrah!

  30. Kriemhild offered gold untold to him who would slay Hagen, but although her enemy was within her grasp, so doughty was the warrior and so terrible his appearance that none dared do battle with him.

  31. Were not men of the sword more doughty than men of the robe?

  32. But the year thereafter and thou wert East in Gard, O doughty fighter, Ne'er have I heard of a leader of hosts More famed than thou wert.

  33. And the bountiful King of the dark forest lands Would in winter-tide test the warrior come from the north, What time that doughty fighter gat from his chief a message Bidding him defend the wall against the foes of Denmark.

  34. Eirik wins the land; The bounteous lord four viking boats from Dane-folk took Doughty and peacemaking.

  35. The twain of them were doughty men, and noble in England, and both were very sage and well-beloved by the King.

  36. Unto the four corners of heaven rises the rumour Of the doughty deeds of the belauded chieftain.

  37. The leader of manly deeds, The doughty dragon closed, Outside the Niz, with shields, and one o'erlapped the other.

  38. Do not our ballads tell how at Lammas-tide, 'The doughty Earl of Douglas rade Into England to fetch a prey?

  39. Thus they resembled two doughty heroes who behave towards each other with knightly courtesy and even assist one another until the moment shall arrive when they begin to hack away at each other.

  40. He became a doughty captain in the field, taking service with or against various countries and belligerents, according to what seemed to him good and where his own advantage lay.

  41. The lion loves to follow in the footprints of kings and heroes, and the elephant accompanies the prince and the doughty warrior.

  42. He there took a house in Doughty Street, being partial to legal society, which was chiefly to be found in that neighbourhood.

  43. Franklin was a doughty antagonist when at bay, but he had few obdurate resentments, and was quick to see the redeeming virtues of even those who had wronged him.

  44. But Doughty was tired, and lazy besides, and concluded to take his chances where he was; so he rolled himself in his blanket and laid quite still.

  45. For a long time after, Doughty was reminded how close to the ground he laid, when the grizzlys paid their compliments to him.

  46. This doughty English traveler had the bad fortune together with that experienced leader Fitzpatrick, of being robbed by the Crows in the course of the fall hunt, in the Crow country.

  47. At length Doughty proposed to get up on the rocks above the mouth of the cavern and shoot the bear as he came out, if somebody would go in and dislodge him.

  48. Before they went to camp, Meek, Kit Carson, Hawkins, and Doughty were trapping together on the Yellowstone, about sixty miles below.

  49. As they came near enough to show that they were likely to invade camp, Meek and Carson, not caring to have a bear fight, clambered up a cotton-wood tree close by, at the same time advising Doughty to do the same.


  50. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "doughty" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    adventurous; audacious; beefy; bold; bouncing; brave; chivalrous; courageous; forceful; forcible; gallant; gritty; hale; hard; hardy; hearty; hefty; heroic; husky; intrepid; knightly; lusty; manly; mighty; nervy; obstinate; plucky; potent; powerful; puissant; robust; rugged; spunky; stalwart; steely; stout; strapping; strong; sturdy; tough; valiant; valorous; venturesome; vigorous