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Definition: Fearless
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Soldiers of Fortune - By Richard Harding Davis, Augustus Thomas
...You are very frank and audacious, " she replied, doubtfully, " but it is rather pleasant as a change . " "...
The Works of Shakespeare ... - By William Shakespeare
...I praise God for you, sir : your reasons ' at dinner have been sharp and sententious; pleasant without scurrility, witty without affection, audacious " Fair Lore is Ventu ....
The Conflict - By David Graham Phillips, NetLibrary, Inc, University of Virginia Library. Electronic Text Center
...She had felt humiliated by having to divide the honors with a brilliantly beautiful and scandalously audacious Chicago girl, a Yvonne Hereford--whose style, in looks, in dress and in wit, was more comfortable to the standard of the best young men of Remsen City--a standard which Miss Hastings, cultivated by foreign travel and social adventure, regarded as distinctly poor, not to say low ....
The Inevitable Book - By Lynn Harold Hough
...And Paul set out with the audacious purpose of attacking the Roman Empire ....
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer - By Mark Twain, John Falter
...You been into some other audacious mischief when I was n't around, like enough . "...
Wuthering Heights - By Emily Bront
...I told him I thought he might better spare all his rabbits than she her cat, for which audacious assertion he treated me to some rather ungentlemanly language; and I fear I retorted a trifle too warmly . " "...
The Age of Innocence - By Edith Wharton
...said her mother; and Miss Archer blushed and tried to look audacious ....
The count of Monte-Cristo - By Alexandre Dumas
...The boy triumphed, and this victory rendered him so audacious, that all the money of Assuma, whose affection for him seemed to increase as he became more unworthy of it, was spent in caprices she knew not how to contend against, and follies she had not the courage to prevent ....
The Hound of the Baskervilles - By Arthur Conan Doyle
...He knew our number, knew that Sir Henry Baskerville had consulted me, spotted who I was in Regent Street, conjectured that I had got the number of the cab and would lay my hands on the driver, and so sent back this audacious message ....
The Last of the Mohicans - By James Fenimore Cooper
...Quicker than the thoughts could follow these unexpected and audacious movements, an image, armed in the emblematic panoply of death, glided before their eyes, and assumed a threatening attitude at the other side ....
Mansfield Park - By Jane Austen, R. Brimley Johnson
...But Edmund, delighted with her having such an happiness offered, and ascertaining with half a look, and half a sentence, that she had no objection but on her aunt 's account, could not imagine that his mother would make any difficulty of sparing her, and therefore gave his decided open advice that the invitation should be accepted; and though Fanny would not venture, even on his encouragement, to such a flight of audacious independence, it was soon settled, that if nothing were heard to the contrary, Mrs Grant might expect her ....