The strongest political, social and local influences were brought to bear to bring them into the ranks, and the Missouri State Guard was formed, which was to fight valorously against the Government on many bitterly contested fields.
"The Struggle for Missouri"
John McElroy
Scores of garter-snakes had been his victims; once even a milk-snake had yielded up the ghost, and once-a great day that-he had seen a black-snake in the open and had assailed it valorously with stones hurled from a distance.
"A Man and a Woman"
Stanley Waterloo
Having rapidly taken notice of all this, I resumed the narrative of Sir Launcelot, which thus proceeded:- "And now, the champion, having escaped from the terrible fury of the dragon, bethinking himself of the brazen shield, and of the breaking up of the enchantment which was upon it, removed the carcass from out of the way before him, and approached valorously over the silver pavement of the castle to where the shield was upon the wall; which in sooth tarried not for his full coming, but fell down at his feet upon the silver floor, with a mighty great and terrible ringing sound."
"Selections From Poe"
J. Montgomery Gambrill