Crossword-Solution: PLUCKIEST 9 letters, 2 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 17

There was a young coster-boy who came up our street with greens and potatoes; he had an old pony, not very handsome, but the cheerfullest and pluckiest little thing I ever saw, and to see how fond those two were of each other was a treat.

Its cities have grown, and some of its peculiarities have been washed away by contact with other nations; but it is Holland still, and always will be--full of oddity, courage and industry--the pluckiest little country on earth.

How is this to be translated? The _Quiverer_? What a name to give the pluckiest little craft that ever dipped her sides in angry foam! I had felt her, it is true, trembling for nights and days together under my feet, but it was with the high-strung tenseness of her faithful courage.

XVII ‘“And only that grumbler, Bob Harris, remarked that we stood one to ten: ‘Ye fool,’ says Mick Grady, ‘just tell ’em they know to compliment men!’ And I sang out your old words: ‘If the opposite side isn’t God’s, Heigh! after you’ve counted a dozen, the pluckiest lads have the odds.’ Ping-ping flew the enemies’ pepper: the Colonel roared, Forward, and we Went at them.

Yes, sir! I say it right here, one of the best, pluckiest little women anywhere, although she and I ain't always agreed on certain matters.