They were famed for their martial spirit and Christian piety.

A martial spirit is now essential to the liberty and the existence of our own country.

His disdain of the military and "the martial spirit" dated from this experience.

Even among the hundred there were several whose martial spirit had suffered eclipse over night.

We were born in the land of the martial spirit.

Eileen used to say that it was the martial spirit which linked us.

From the start, however, Polemon seems strangely lacking in martial spirit.

The martial spirit to make war, after all, lives only on hopes.

Everything needed by soldiers seeking to hone their martial spirit.

But the security of every society must always depend, more or less, upon the martial spirit of the great body of the people.