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Not thou it was Who savedst from devouring fire the ships; But I with heart unquailing there stood fast Facing the fire and Hector ay, even he Gave back before me everywhere in fight.
From The Fall of Troy by Arthur Sanders Way
And think not I would sink: no, all unquailing, I poise me now to follow on thy way; To mount the tempest-cloud with nerve unfailing, And thread the path whereon the lightnings play.
From The Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine, February 1844 Volume 23, Number 2 by Various
His natural courage, and the Greek nobility of pride, enabled him to vanquish all unbecoming apprehension, and, in the judgment-court, to face his awful lot with a steady mien and unquailing eye.
From Last Days of Pompeii by Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron Lytton
There was a commanding light in the unquailing eyes and these men who knew few celebrities from the world without, knew both his name and his record.
From The Tempering by Charles Neville Buck
Ere the third sun in heaven was red, The rite was o'er, the sister wed; And back, with anxious heart unquailing, He hastes to hold the pledge unfailing.
From The Poems of Schiller — Third period by Friedrich Schiller
