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Meanings of heroic figure in English

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Usage of heroic figure in English
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This heroic figure is fitting impersonation of successful revolt against oppressive exactions.
Oswald Langdon / or, Pierre and Paul Lanier. A Romance of 1894-1...
2
What, if anything, is lacking to make her truly a heroic figure?
Teachers' Outlines for Studies in English / Based on the Require...
3
No guilt showed there; he stood among them, a heroic figure.
Dark Hollow
4
Ira, a heroic figure but also a fallen public idol, is now dead.
The Irish Times
5
Out of this coming struggle I shall emerge a heroic figure.
Heart of the Sunset
6
But Atherton saw and heeded nothing but that tall heroic figure on the carriage.
A Dog with a Bad Name
7
All in all, then, Hipparchus is a most heroic figure.
A History of Science — Volume 1
8
This flushed and garrulous Nelson moved her more poignantly than a more heroic figure.
The Glimpses of the Moon
9
Oh, I was a heroic figure, all right, those days.
The Range Dwellers
10
Yet the war correspondent remains a heroic figure, the truth teller who observes history happening.
The Irish Times
11
I see him in it, stalking through the terrible dances, a heroic figure at last.
Tommy and Grizel
12
Not an heroic figure; but then most of the flag-officers Tyacke had met were not.
The Only Victor
13
He is a truly heroic figure in Irish history.
The Irish Times
14
There now appeared the single heroic figure on the stage of the Thirty Years' War.
Early European History
15
He was already a heroic figure -a brave hunter, scientific researcher and self-promotionalwriter.
News.com.au
16
She was standing on the steps of the statue, a pathetic, yet an heroic figure.
Princess Maritza
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