adventure story
heroic tale

Besides, she was no longer a starry-eyed child whose scant knowledge of men had come from heroic tales.

And the store's liberal return policy, the source of so many "heroic" tales, has spawned bitterness as well.

How at odds that sort of ending would be with the heroic tales he used to enjoy.

It contains not just heroic tales of battle but also love stories and philosophical tracts.

Travel changes one, a truth as old as heroic tales.

It is I, and I alone, who must make of my new life a heroic tale.

In the early years, these heroic tales captivated my imagination.

I loved listening to my grandparents' heroic tales from the war.

After his death, he was frequently the subject of heroic tall tales and works of fiction.

He wondered whether real heroes were ever embarrassed by such problems; certainly the subject never came up in the heroic tales of this period.