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- noun Plural form of
prowess .
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Examples
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Then the battles approached and shoved and shouted on both sides, and great strokes were smitten on both sides, many men overthrown, hurt, and slain; and great valiances, prowesses and appertices of war were that day showed, which were over long to recount the noble feats of every man, for they should contain an whole volume.
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Mesembrine were fair spacious galleries, all coloured over and painted with the ancient prowesses, histories, and descriptions of the world.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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It is of the horrible and dreadful feats and prowesses of
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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Mesembrine were fair spacious galleries, all coloured over and painted with the ancient prowesses, histories, and descriptions of the world.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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It is of the horrible and dreadful feats and prowesses of
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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In those books we narrated the main feats and prowesses of the
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The learned historian, Monsieur Alcofribas, who preserves for our instruction "the heroic deeds and prowesses" of the great king of the Dipsodes, tells us how that once, when Philip of Macedon threatened
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 01, No. 01, November, 1857 A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics Various
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I thought with horror of the inn at Chasserades and the congregated night caps; with horror of the nocturnal prowesses of clerks and students, of hot theatres, and passkeys and close rooms.
Short Stories and Selections for Use in the Secondary Schools Emilie Kip Baker
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Sam, senior at Yale and star of the nine, Sambones Bedelle, known at school as Skippy the first, about whose athletic prowesses the tradition still remained.
Skippy Bedelle His Sentimental Progress From the Urchin to the Complete Man of the World Owen Johnson 1915
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Then the battles approached and shoved and shouted on both sides, and great strokes were smitten on both sides, many men overthrown, hurt, and slain; and great valiances, prowesses and appertices of war were that day showed, which were over long to recount the noble feats of every man, for they should contain an whole volume.
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