Wonderful like is the case of
boldness in civil business: what first?
Soon afterwards, observing that he was an animal altogether deficient in spirit, he assumed such
boldness as to put a bridle in his mouth, and to let a child drive him.
Rather, O blessed one, give you me
boldness to abide within the harmless laws of peace, avoiding strife and hatred and the violent fiends of death.
The author's
boldness. The present is afterwards accepted.
"My lord," answered the man, "pardon my
boldness and my persistence.
In his eyes lurked a look of perfectly remorseless irony, as though he had been provided with an extremely experienced soul; and the slightest distension of his nostrils would give to his bronzed face a look of extraordinary
boldness. This was the only play of feature of which he seemed capable, being a Southerner of a concentrated, deliberate type.
"My darling Walter," she said, "must we really account for our
boldness in coming here?
The Venetians were not agreeable to it, nor was the King of Spain, and he had the enterprise still under discussion with the King of France; nevertheless he personally entered upon the expedition with his accustomed
boldness and energy, a move which made Spain and the Venetians stand irresolute and passive, the latter from fear, the former from desire to recover the kingdom of Naples; on the other hand, he drew after him the King of France, because that king, having observed the movement, and desiring to make the Pope his friend so as to humble the Venetians, found it impossible to refuse him.
Everyone laughed, not at Marya Dmitrievna's answer but at the incredible
boldness and smartness of this little girl who had dared to treat Marya Dmitrievna in this fashion.
If she read that the heroine of the novel was nursing a sick man, she longed to move with noiseless steps about the room of a sick man; if she read of a member of Parliament making a speech, she longed to be delivering the speech; if she read of how Lady Mary had ridden after the hounds, and had provoked her sister-in-law, and had surprised everyone by her
boldness, she too wished to be doing the same.
What if I should go straight in and march to HIS window?--what if, by risking to his boyish bewilderment a revelation of my motive, I should throw across the rest of the mystery the long halter of my
boldness?
"Adorable Princess," said Aladdin to her, accosting her, and saluting her respectfully, "if I have the misfortune to have displeased you by my
boldness in aspiring to the possession of so lovely a creature, I must tell you that you ought to blame your bright eyes and charms, not me."