intrepid
Definition: Fearless and bold
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The count of Monte-Cristo - By Alexandre Dumas
...The intrepid treasure-seeker walked round it, and, selecting the spot from whence it appeared most easy to attack it, placed his lever in one of the crevices, and strained every nerve to move the mass. ....
The Works of William Makepeace Thackeray - By William Makepeace Thackeray, Anthony Trollope
...At dawn, we made our approach on the enemy, then drew up, dressed our ranks, and it was about eight when the admiral made the signal for each ship to engage her opponent, and bring her to close acticn; and then down we went under a crowd of sail, and in a manner that would have animated the coldest heart, and struck terror into the most intrepid enemy ....
The Rise of the Russian Empire - By Saki
...As the storm broke over the Grand Prince 's host, accompanied by thunder peals and torrents of rain, out of the night there rushed in on them the war-men of the intrepid Mstislav, who rivalled with his wild battle-shock the tumult of the elements ....
The Complete Works of William Makepeace Thackeray - By William Makepeace Thackeray
...intrepid Sutton, sword in hand, who saluted the company with his warlike weapon, making an especial bow and salute to a private box or gallery in which sat a stout gentleman, who was seemingly a person of importance ....
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer - By Mark Twain, American Publishing Company
...She had thought that of course Tom had ` deserted long ago, and she wondered at seeing him place himself in her power again in this intrepid way ....
The Age of Innocence - By Edith Wharton
...situated the love-scenes of `` Monsieur de Camors " in Mrs. Mingott 's bedroom -RRB- to picture her blameless life led in the stage-setting of adultery; but he said to himself, with considerable admiration, that if a lover had been what she wanted, the intrepid woman would have had him too ....
The Last of the Mohicans - By James Fenimore Cooper
...Chingachgook grasped the hand that, in the warmth of feeling, the scout had stretched across the fresh earth, and in that attitude of friendship these two sturdy and intrepid woodsmen bowed their heads together, while scalding tears...
The Age of Innocence - By Edith Wharton, Philip M. Parker
...It amused Newland Archer -LRB- who had secretly situated the love-scenes of `` Monsieur de Camors " in Mrs. Mingott 's bedroom -RRB- to picture her blameless life led in the stage-setting of adultery; but he said to himself, with considerable admiration \* that if a lover had been what she wanted, the intrepid woman would have had him too ....
Riders of the Purple Sage - By Zane Grey
...It was then that Jane, suddenly understanding Las-siter 's feat, stared and gasped at the riding of this intrepid man ....
The Moon and Sixpence - By William Somerset Maugham, Herman Finkelstein Collection (Library of Congress)
...With the intrepid woman who was his wife, and a few natives, he landed there, and set about building a house, and clearing the scrub so that he could plant cocoa-nuts ....
The deerslayer - By James Fenimore Cooper
...Though timid, and shy as the young of the deer, on so many occasions, this right-feeling girl was always intrepid in the cause of humanity; the lessons of her mother, and the impulses of her own heart--perhaps we might say the promptings of that unseen and pure spirit that seemed ever to watch over and direct her actions--uniting to keep down the apprchensions of woman, and to impel her to be bold and resolute ....
The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon - By Washington Irving
...His conduct under trial, too, was so lofty and intrepid ....
The Vicar of Wakefield - By Oliver Goldsmith
...`` Where, Sir, is your fortitude, " returned my son, with an intrepid voice ....
Essays - By Ralph Waldo Emerson
...This can only be by his preferring truth to his past apprehension of truth, and his alert acceptance of it from whatever quarter; the intrepid conviction that his laws, his relations to society, his Christianity, his world, may at any time be superseded and decease ....