1 He strolled about and talked with them, and the biggest of them told tales of their prowess, while those who were weaker, or younger and inexperienced, gathered round and listened in admiring silence.
2 You understand," he said, "that in a society dominated by the fact of commercial competition, money is necessarily the test of prowess, and wastefulness the sole criterion of power.
3 At the same time he laid his finger significantly on another similar weapon, both being the fruits of his prowess among their enemies during the evening.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore CooperContext Highlight In CHAPTER 26 4 When he had enumerated the many different occasions on which the Hurons had exhibited their courage and prowess, in the punishment of insults, he digressed in a high encomium on the virtue of wisdom.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore CooperContext Highlight In CHAPTER 27 5 He had imagined peoples secure in the shadow of his eagle-eyed prowess.
6 He seemed no more to be continually regarding the proportions of his personal prowess.
7 When the child of morning rosy-fingered Dawn appeared, I took the three men on whose prowess of all kinds I could most rely, and went along by the sea-side, praying heartily to heaven.
8 When I had told him this, the ghost of Achilles strode off across a meadow full of asphodel, exulting over what I had said concerning the prowess of his son.
9 A person whose goodness consists rather in his guiltlessness of vice, than in his prowess in virtue.
10 As for his prowess at Waterloo, the reader is already acquainted with that.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER II—TWO COMPLETE PORTRAITS 11 David wished to immortalize that feat of prowess.
12 He said good-bye to him at the station on their return from a bear hunt, at which they had had a display of Russian prowess kept up all night.
13 Side by side with his memory of the deeds of prowess of his uncle Mat Davin, the athlete, the young peasant worshipped the sorrowful legend of Ireland.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James JoyceContext Highlight In Chapter 5 14 We have heard of your prowess.
15 But old age, frozen to dulness, and exhausted with length of life, denies me the load of empire, and my prowess is past its day.