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Example sentences for "audacious"

Lexicographically close words:
aucunement; aucunes; aucuns; audace; audacia; audaciously; audacities; audacity; audacter; audax
  1. Franz did not talk to him about his sisters, as I should have perhaps wished, and I dared not mention them, for there was that in Cerinthia's hazy, lustrous eyes that made me afraid to be as audacious as my disposition permitted.

  2. The robbery was committed in a very audacious manner, for several persons were passing in the street at the time.

  3. Sir George Staunton might, therefore, tread the scene of his former audacious exploits, free from the apprehension of the law, or even of discovery or suspicion.

  4. From a boy he had grown to a man, and a fine man, and a great artist--but he was still the old kind and audacious Pollux.

  5. Outside, in the dark, my audacious part was not hard to play; but to carry the improvisation in-doors was to double at once the difficulty and the risk.

  6. Our eyes met; and in his there was that starry twinkle of mirth and mischief, that sunny beam of audacious devilment, which had been my undoing two months before, which was to undo me as often as he chose until the chapter's end.

  7. This was one of the finest points in Washington's scheme, in which the perfection of the details matched the audacious grandeur of the whole.

  8. Sidenote: Washington's audacious plan] Washington's plan of attack seems to have contemplated nothing less than the destruction or capture of the British army.

  9. Considering that the Americans had not even yet a superiority in numbers, this was a most audacious plan.

  10. I did not wait to hear more, but, almost suffocated with laughter at the success of Ferret's audacious ruse, hastened over to the Temple.

  11. A fierce outcry greeted this audacious interference with gentlemen who, in those good old times, were but executing the law in a remarkably good old manner.

  12. God's friend and all the world's enemy" was their audacious motto.

  13. Their audacious motto was "Who can stand against God and the Great Novgorod?

  14. What help, when jarring elements conspire, To punish our audacious crimes?

  15. Instead of this, he resorted to an act of audacious violence which crushed them both at a blow.

  16. He who was thus addressed replied, with audacious humility: "Sire, I wear them by your Majesty's favor.

  17. And one other circumstance was favorable to the audacious originators.

  18. It was an audacious speech, bordering on treason, and not the manner in which to address the Czar of All the Russias!

  19. But the audacious criminal's hand never trembled as he read the four columns which blazoned the discovery of Clayton's body.

  20. She only divined Fritz Braun's purpose as an intended robbery, or some audacious blackmail.

  21. Perhaps I should have been as audacious as you were, Christy, if such had been my orders.

  22. Well, Christy, I think you are the most audacious young fellow I ever met," added the future commander of the Bronx.

  23. I will never use the word audacity or the adjective audacious to you again, Christy.

  24. Such a chance had only to exist to be appreciated by one so clear-sighted and audacious as Pizarro.

  25. The audacious exploit of Commodore Dance, and Napoleon's direction to "take Port Jackson" in 1810.

  26. I have no hesitation in saying that you are the most audacious and impertinent new boy with whom I have ever had to deal.

  27. What has now in great part become history, was deemed too audacious for the public ear then.

  28. This Signor Filippo, who is an impudent, audacious scamp, made the acquaintance of Belle two years ago, when she was a schoolgirl.

  29. Meanwhile, he consoled the much discomfited Coimbra, and the latter, helped to his feet, again took his place near the trader, while throwing a menacing look at the audacious Austin.

  30. It was not that of an audacious person, it was that of a darer.

  31. So a year later, in command of thirty-seven vessels and over two thousand men, he started upon the most difficult and the most audacious expedition ever planned by the wild outlaws of this coast.

  32. First intelligence came of the capture of a town on the island of Margarita by the audacious cruiser Bolivar, erstwhile the Libertador, and earlier the Ban Righ.

  33. Our greatest work in art has been achieved not so much by inspiration, subordinate to sentiments of exquisite good taste or guided by observance of classical models, as by audacious sallies of pure inventive power.

  34. Or, forgetting the children of his holy creed, does he tamely submit to the audacious tyranny of the proud Moscov?

  35. There have been broader and more catholic natures, but few so towering and audacious in expression and so rich in characteristic traits.


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