Pluckier

Palin's pluckier side -- love it or hate it -- is on display in a short clip quoting her own assessment of her experience as a running mate. ❋ Unknown (2008)

She, like the Norton editors, has replaced the 1880 text with the pluckier originals. ❋ Unknown (2005)

What they agreed on was that expats in Mexico thought of themselves as hardier, pluckier than their compatriots who moved to Florida. ❋ Barry Golson (2006)

Arthur thumped along into his own room and went happily to bed, feeling that girls were pluckier that he had thought them, and that even crutch-bearers could accomplish something in the world. ❋ Grace M. Remick (N/A)

I rather fancy Plunger had been playing pranks with his bed, but he didn't shout out or take on; so he was pluckier than I was. ❋ Unknown (N/A)

I suppose that a pluckier woman has rarely existed. ❋ W. P. Livingstone (N/A)

"We shall be like two rats fighting in a whole -- and the pluckier one will win!" ❋ 6th Cent. B.C. Sunzi (N/A)

Then WATNEY comes, and a pluckier seven ne'er rowed in a Cambridge crew; ❋ Edward Woodley Bowling (N/A)

After Jaggers another boy did an even pluckier thing. ❋ Unknown (N/A)

The dogs used are of the usual type seen throughout the Philippines, except that only the better and pluckier or luckier ones are chosen for hunting. ❋ John M. Garvan (N/A)

Sweat was a weak, frail man who rarely held out on a long march, though there was no pluckier or braver soldier in ❋ Berrien McPherson (1912)

"I've known pluckier women than you to change their minds, under pressure." ❋ Louis Joseph Vance (1906)

Keith thought he had never seen a pluckier girl, and the West can rightfully boast brave women. ❋ B. M. Bower (1905)

"Boys are always pluckier than girls; aren't they, Father?" ❋ Lucy Fitch Perkins (1901)

'Well, you see,' he explained loftily, 'I don't suppose I'm pluckier than most people, but it just happens that I'm not afraid of Red ❋ F. Anstey (1895)