pluckily

They had set me with my back against the wall, and I stood there, looking Silver in the face, pluckily enough, I hope, to all outward appearance, but with black despair in my heart.

In the midst of it all the worthy vicar was very pluckily holding an early celebra- tion, and his bell was jangling out above the excitement.

Nor had the doctor so much as met him, but had merely read of him in connection with a small sensation at the suburban branch which my namesake managed; an armed robber had been rather pluckily beaten off, with a bullet in him, by this Raffles; and the sort of thing was so common out there that this was the first I had heard of it!

Once, an English ship, scudding in a storm, tried to stand by them, heaving-to pluckily under their lee.

The report said: "Her mother, a widow, lives in Toronto Canada, and Ruby pluckily undertook the journey alone.

Partnered by Cieren Fallon, my selection raced in mid-pack and kept on pluckily in the closing stages to take fourth, beaten two lengths, to the gambled-on Cape Byron.

Painter Colin Jack is celebrating his 30th year at the festival with local scenes rendered in the stunning Japanese ukiyo style, while Caroline Blackler paints evocative watercolours of local seascapes in which tiny, isolated fishing boats chug their way pluckily across huge, empty expanses of water.

Humans will cling pluckily to life on this ever-less-habitable earth for as long as they can.

It turned out well in the end, even though it took the Thai authorities much longer to sort out the complications than in the case of Rahaf Mohammed, the Saudi teenager who pluckily escaped her suffocating circumstances, but was held up at Bangkok airport during a layover on her way to Australia.

In his message on the 11th death anniversary of the former Prime Minister, Barrister Murtaza Wahab said that Shaheed Benazir Bhutto faced the vindictiveness of the dictators pluckily and steadfastly.

The newly-created Northern Powerhouse rail organisation is pluckily struggling with trying to realise strategic rail improvements, but its modest progress in developing a coherent "business case" clearly illustrates the sheer thanklessness of the task.

But we pluckily went in at the hotel's secluded bay and it was glorious.