| They gathered behind walls or flickered across the open in shouting masses, and were pot-valiant in artillery. |
| An early adventure was to force a pot-valiant parson, who had drunk a cup too much at a wedding, into a rarely farcical situation. |
| He looked up as the horse approached, but did not run away, being rendered pot-valiant by the liquor he had drunk earlier in the evening. |
| His eyes wore an expression of profound misery, but he preserved steadily other portions of a pot-valiant air. |
| But in the midst of his brooding, Teppich and the fat Sturgeon assailed the nunnery gate with pot-valiant blows and shouts. |
