"Pluckily" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... man does not find peculiar favour in the eyes of his Colonel. Boyce took a speedy opportunity of transference, and got into the thick of some fighting. Then he served with distinction and actually got mentioned in dispatches for pluckily rescuing ...
— The Red Planet • William J. Locke
... Ned pluckily took his station just outside the circle of light formed by the replenished fire, and sat down with rifle laid ...
— The Pony Rider Boys in the Rockies • Frank Gee Patchin
... would never again enter the ring. This was a phase of prize-fighting that he had never before had experience of. On different occasions he had, it is true, knocked out his various opponents, and once or twice he had been knocked out himself; but the Chicken had fought so pluckily up to the last round that the Bruiser had put forth more of his tremendous strength than he had bargained for, and now the man's life ...
— The Face And The Mask • Robert Barr
... gracious, boy, what more could you have done? You behaved very pluckily, but it was a great risk to run. Then you have not ...
— The Vast Abyss - The Story of Tom Blount, his Uncles and his Cousin Sam • George Manville Fenn |
