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Sentences ending with daring
- At any rate, whatever the merits of their case, no one in England accused the Johannesburgers of foolhardy courage or impassioned daring. [11]
- And I did not do it to display my daring. [5]
- Indiscreet--yes; always indiscreet in her way, in her own way, and always daring. [11]
- Afterwards the Ninety-Nine had an increasing reputation for exploit and daring. [11]
- It was a face and figure full of daring. [11]
- His endurance was equal to his daring. [5]
- She disarmed one by what would have been, in a man, insolent sang-froid: in her it was piquancy, daring. [11]
- I could not but feel a strange wonder at the powerful side of her character just shown--her courage, her cool daring. [11]
- He knew Pierre's bravery, his ingenuity and daring. [11]
- He's young and brave, careless and daring. [11]
Sentences containing daring two or more times
- He was daring, but he was not daring enough to stand up against that demand if Joan had urged it. [5]
More example sentences with the word daring in them
- The modest fellow would have liked fame thrust upon him for some worthy achievement; it might be for a book, or for the skillful management of some great newspaper, or for some daring expedition like that of Lt. Strain or Dr. Kane. [5]
- Sentence of death would have been more welcome to him than this supercilious check to a hazardous attempt, which he had looked upon as daring and heroic. [10]
- In most, rashness would be the outcome of such a marriage of characteristics; but clear-sightedness, decision, and a little unscrupulousness had carried into success many daring actions of his life. [11]
- Some day I will make a hit, and everybody will ask, 'Who is this daring, clever Olin Brad? [4]
- Seized of that wilful, daring spirit called Love, her sight was bounded by the little field where she strayed. [11]
- At sixteen the wild fellow went out into the world to seek his fortune, and had found it as a daring sailor. [10]
- All the portraits were recognizable as dead Americans of distinction, and yet, through labeling added, by a daring hand, they were all doing duty here as "Earls of Rossmore. [5]
- Frequently their walks were extended tramps, and once in a daring moment one or the other of them proposed to walk to Boston. [5]
- Close at hand was the snowy mass of the Great Altels cooling its topknot in the sky and daring us to an ascent. [5]
- At last I was more angry at his daring to speak to me in such a way than any of you ever thought I could be, and that drove him half mad. [10]
- And soon it was he who became daring, declaring that there would be time enough to talk another day; that for the present her rosy mouth had nothing to do but to cure him with kisses. [10]
- The daring act was committed just at dawn, by six masked men, who sprang up alongside the coaches, presented revolvers at the heads of the drivers and passengers, and commanded a general dismount. [5]
- Here was the very man: with a proud, daring, homeless look, a splendid body, and a kind of cavalier conceit. [11]
- This had been too daring an experiment with one of her nature, which had within the last few months become as strangely, insistently, even fanatically honest, as it had been elusive in the past. [11]
- At table d'hote tonight, 3 dishes were enough for me, and then I bored along tediously through the bill of fare, with a back-ache, not daring to get up and bow to the German family and leave. [5]
- She was good to look at: warm, lovable, fascinating in her little daring wickednesses; a fiery little animal, full of splendid impulses, gifted with a perilous temperament: and she loved him. [11]
- Philetaerus had sent this touching work to King Ptolemy to thank him for the severity with which he had chastised the daring of the barbarians, who had not spared his kingdom also. [10]
- She would make then realize what genuine art, skill, and daring could accomplish. [10]
- But his eyes themselves were fiery and keen and there was reckless daring in every turn of his body. [11]
- Without waiting for their aid, the daring Peter dashed, sword in hand, into the thickest of the foe. [4]
- And pray for the young and the daring and the foolish. [11]
- The life of the river-men was exciting, hardy, and perilous; tending to boisterousness, recklessness, daring, and wild humour: that of the salmon-fishers was cheerful, picturesque, infrequently dangerous, mostly simple and quiet. [11]
- We all thought the proposal daring, but in no way amazing; the public existed to be sold things to, and what did it matter if the Maplewood residents, as Ralph said; and the City Improvement League protested? [9]
- He paused in the door, with his red handkerchief half raised to his sweating face, and contemplated the daring reptile in the corner. [5]
- He possessed all the best elements of a young man in a new country--intelligent self-dependence, skill, daring, vision. [11]
- And the idea that she, too, might prefer the sanction of the law, the gilded cage as a popular song which once had taken his fancy illuminatingly expressed it--seemed utterly incongruous with the freedom and daring of her spirit, was a sobering shock. [9]
- Do you mean that one must be more daring, as you call it, in London than in New York? [4]
- With distance from that noble adventure, something of the glow of a lover's relations had gone, and the subsequent tender enthusiasm of mind and memory was not vivid enough to make him daring or--as he would have said--reckless for its sake. [11]
- It was said that he was the most aristocratic of aristocratic Romans, the most reckless of the daring, the wildest of the riotous, and the handsomest of the handsome. [10]
- And Jane Withersteen talked and smiled and laughed with all the dazzling play of lips and eyes that a beautiful, daring woman could summon to her purpose. [13]
- There is no tale of mystery and fanaticism and daring I would not believe if a Spaniard is the hero of it, and it is not necessary either that he should have the high-sounding name of Bodadilla or Ojeda. [4]
- Here is Helen, strong and lithe of limb, ox-eyed, courageous, but woman-hearted and love-inspiring, contended for by all the braves and daring moonshiners of Cut Laurel Gap, pursued by the gallants of two States, the prize of a border warfare of bowie knives and revolvers. [4]
- Since that the story of his noble deeds of daring, of his capture and escape, and a brief visit home before he was able to rejoin his regiment, had made his name familiar to many among us, myself among the number. [6]
- I wish you stood nearer to me; but Rameses will not part with you, although--although--In point of fact your office has two aspects; it requires the daring of a soldier, and the dexterity of a scribe. [10]
- She would never stand in the way of his most daring ambitions with any scruples. [4]
- I see in some of the modern novels we have been talking of the same unscrupulous daring, a blindness to moral distinctions, a constant exaltation of a passion into a virtue, an entire disregard of the immutable laws on which the family and society rest. [4]
- Nature seems for some days to be in doubt, not exactly able to stand still, not daring to put forth anything tender. [4]
- Thinking only that some daring Boer was doing the thing with a thousand odds against him, they roared approval as the gun came nearer and nearer. [11]
- The reckless quality seemed to have gone out of it, yet the spirit and daring remained, and with these all the sweetness that was once in his smile. [9]
- The old man's scheme certainly found favor with the Negro; still, it seemed to him in many respects so daring that, but for an equivalent service which Horapollo was in a position to offer Obada, he would scarcely have succeeded in obtaining his consent. [10]
- Aleck, ever watchful saw a great and risky chance, and took a daring flyer. [5]
- Both had the same kind of daring, but in Puss the trait had developed into a somewhat disagreeable outspokenness which made many people dislike her. [9]
- If for her sake he came secretly, daring death, wouldst thou stand--" The man's eyes lighted. [11]
- The man's daring roused her admiration, even as her anger mounted. [11]
- He addresses the reformer with one of those daring images which defy the critics. [6]
- It was a real figure of the river, buoyant, daring, almost vicious. [11]
- Iberville's daring was quite as remarkable as the position in which he had placed himself. [11]
- Her heart throbbed quickly, for she did not forget her daring purpose, and a throng of memories of modest but more carefree days rushed upon her. [10]
- A poisonous vitality possessed her, but through it glowed a daring and a candour that belonged to her before she became wicked, and that now half redeemed her in the eyes of this man, who knew the worst of her. [11]
- And with renewed physical energy she began to experience once more a sense of fellowship with these free and daring spirits who sought to avenge her wrongs and theirs. [9]
- Being the extraordinary person she was, she realized her position and its possibilities; realized the possibilities, and had the daring to use them for all they were worth. [5]
- Haven't got a penny--of my own," he added, with daring irony. [11]
- I, on my part, do not wish to be held responsible for some of his more daring thoughts, if I should see fit to reproduce them hereafter. [6]
- I've been in Parliament a generation or so, and I've never known an amateur more daring and skilful. [11]
- The General, looking over the ship's side, understood his daring purpose. [11]
- None of the others had the Master's blood, fire, daring in his veins. [11]
- From this platform one looks down the narrow, slippery stairs that are lost in the boiling mist, and wonders at the daring that built these steps down into that hell, and carried the frail walk of planks over the bowlders outside the fall. [4]
- The latest exploit of the daring freebooter had been to stop on the plains two members of a Royal Commission of Inquiry. [11]
- This very quality of resolute daring saved him from disaster. [11]
- At the beginning of one's career, if one were to calculate too carefully, impulse, momentum, daring, original conception would be lost. [11]
- She had heard of milling stampeded cattle, and knew it was a feat accomplished by only the most daring riders. [13]
- She was fond of daring feats on the trapeze, and had to be checked in her indulgence in them. [6]
- For instance, one must be daring, and discreet, and nimble, and ready to give the law a presentable answer, and lacking that, a piastre. [9]
- Meanwhile British aggressions multiplied, and grew more daring and aggravated. [7]
- Encouraged by the matron, who was not less shocked than he had been at Melissa's daring, he returned to the anteroom, where, at first, greatly excited, he walked up and down, and then sank on a marble seat to wait for his sister. [10]
- The captain was made to tarry and sup with his Excellency and my grandfather, and I sat perforce a fourth at the table, scarce daring to conjecture as to the outcome of my escapade. [9]
- Better an hour's mad revel, E'en a kiss from a Moenad's lip, Than a year of timid doubting, Daring only to taste and sip, were the closing lines of a song which I composed at this time. [10]
- So we left Luzerne, where it was warm, not daring to stay till the expected rival sun, Victoria of England, should make the heat overpowering. [4]
- But best I loved to hear Captain Sevier, whose talk lacked not force, but had a daring, a humor, a lightness of touch, that seemed more in keeping with that world I had left behind me in Charlestown. [9]
- Not daring to look round and without looking round, he was ecstatically conscious of his approach. [2]
- The old whimsical look came into her face, the old sudden flash which always lighted her eyes when a daring phrase was born in her mind, and she instantly retorted: "The master-mind--how self-centred you are! [11]
- There was no little daring, as there was cruelty, in thus torturing a man whose life had been broken by Doltaire's associate. [11]
- This was something like cutting off retreat, but they got to daring each other, and of course there could be but one result--they threw their tools into a corner and made the ascent. [5]
- M. Fille was like a little cruiser protecting a fort when gunboats swarm near, not daring to attack till their battleship heaves in sight. [11]
- The veteran Charles le Moyne, with his sons, each of whom played a daring and important part in the history of New France,--Iberville greatest,-- was one of the few merchants in whom was combined the trader and the noble. [11]
- The stake was large, and Harkness was a daring speculator. [5]
- And tho' they lacked not fire and skill, they had not my lady's dash and daring to follow over field and fallow, stream and searing, and be in at the death with heightened colour, but never a look away. [9]
- He had a keen appreciation of courage, and he thought he saw in her face, as she turned upon them, a look of defiance or daring, and nothing could have got at his nature quicker. [11]
- A burst of indignation at his daring to suspect me even for an instant, and with a flourish into the fire, the evidence. [11]
- The daring and independent ruler will soon become a mere tool, by means of which the priests can work their will. [10]
- In my time I have seldom seen such daring things marketed at any price as these conscienceless folk have worked off at par on this confiding observer. [5]
- I must confess, however unwillingly, that some priests of the true faith--among them your grandfather, and mine--supported the daring usurper who clung faithfully to the old traditions. [10]
- Then, as though horror-stricken at his own daring act, he fell on his knees, raised his eyes and hands in prayer, and gathering up the broken image, kissed it devoutly. [10]
- The "Charley" caught his ear, and the daring in his eye brightened still more. [11]
- He had expressed his dissatisfaction in strong terms, and again pointed out to her the danger in which such a daring demonstration might involve them; but this time there was no moving the lady; she would not despoil herself of a single rose. [10]
- Petya rode beside him, longing to look round to see whether or not the French were running after them, but not daring to. [2]
- I told on him, and with reckless daring the cavalcade straight ahead into the perilous solitudes of the desert, and scorned his frantic warnings of the mutilation and death that hovered about them on every side. [5]
- She looked at him and wondered at the power she had over this bully of the border, who had his own way with most people, and was one of the most daring fighters, hunters, and smugglers in the country. [11]
- For she threw herself into her new labours with the desperate energy that seeks forgetfulness, not daring to pause to think about herself, to reflect upon what the future might hold for her when the strike should be over. [9]
- I noticed, just here, that I had heedlessly brought the deed away with me; now at this moment came to me one of those rare moods of daring recklessness, such as I referred to a while ago. [5]
- He hovered over her, pitifully, his hands feeling for her, yet not daring to touch her. [9]
- He had told her that his heart had throbbed more anxiously during her daring feats than on the bloodiest field of battle. [10]
- Venters had abhorred her notoriety, but now he took passionate pride in her skill, her daring, her power over a horse. [13]
- Then she cast her eyes around the hall, as though daring any one to break that silence, and finally they rested upon Mr. Ives. [9]
- Her timorous heart, held in check by virgin modesty, accustomed to desire nothing save what she could have confessed to her sister and the abbess, seemed as if it had cast off every fetter and boldly resolved to risk the most daring deeds. [10]
- Still, she had held back; and in her anxious bewilderment, not daring to think or act, she had tried every form of excuse and postponement. [10]
- From that moment he passed from headlong, daring, lovable youth, to manhood; understanding, fearful, conscientious, and morally strong. [11]
- A month ago he had told Guida that he loved her; to-day there should be a still more daring venture. [11]
- Mark Antony would have touched the heart of a stone statue by that blending of manly daring and humble devotion which no woman can resist. [10]
- So much had happened in the past three years; there had been so much adulation and worship and daring assault upon her heart--or emotions--from quarters of unusual distinction, that the finest sense of her was blunted, and true proportions were lost. [11]
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