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Definition of Prowesses
1. prowess [n] - See also: prowess
Lexicographical Neighbors of Prowesses
Literary usage of Prowesses
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The History of Chivalry Or Knighthood and Its Times. by Charles Mills (1825)
"... the King's Chivalry England regarded as the Seat of Honour Instance of this
Chivalric Heroes in this Reign The Gestes and prowesses of Sir Walter Manny ..."
2. Cyrano de Bergerac by Edmond Rostand, Gertrude Hall Brownell (1898)
"Inquire, will you, of the sensible, concerning the effect produced to-day by your
prowesses. CYRANO (finishing his macaroon). Enormous! LE BRET. ..."
3. Twenty Years After by Alexandre Dumas (1893)
"I made them relate to me all his prowesses down there at Pierrefonds, and I have
done all that he did, except breaking a cord by swelling my temples. ..."
4. Library of the World's Best Literature: Ancient and Modern by Edward Cornelius Towne (1897)
"... and the congregated nightcaps; with horror of the nocturnal prowesses of clerks
and students, of hot theatres and pass-keys and close rooms. ..."
5. The Harvard Classics by Charles William Eliot (1910)
"... sooner landed in Osuna, when I heard so many of his prowesses recounted, as
my mind gave me presently that he was the man in whose search I travelled. ..."
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