But to the rest of mankind, with a love for blind old Homer, they are the stones poor clumsy Polyphemus hurled at escaping Ulysses and his intrepid companions.
Nothing indeed appeared to depress or intimidate this intrepid fellow.
There you were assailed by the intrepid garrison of a house, who levelled their bamboo rifles at you from between the upright canes which composed its sides.
But why had not the intrepid Mehevi carried the war into Happar?
At long intervals, however, some intrepid captain will touch on the skirts of the bay, with two or three armed boats' crews and accompanied by interpreters.
He was by nature a fairly intrepid youth, and moreover, he had recently made a close study of Carlyle's Heroes and Hero-worship, which greatly impressed him.
Prophet, unable, intrepid as he was, to avoid recoiling when he found himself thus suddenly confronted with the fate of an appendix.
As he turned the handle of the door he felt like Sir Henry Stanley, when that intrepid explorer first set foot among the leafy habitations of the dwarfs.
But Cortes, intrepid and serene in the face of disaster, called them to order.
The intrepid and persistent spirit of Cortes, undismayed by the reverses which the attempted conquest of Mexico had cost him and his followers, now laid his plans for a further campaign against the lake-city of Anahuac.
Then again the City was not easy at the flash of activity and enterprise at the exchequer, and the money-changers did not know what disturbance this intrepid genius might bring into the traffic of their tables.
The men from the Intrepid sprang to their feet and climbed on board the Philadelphia.
How interesting the oft-told but ever-fresh narrative of the intrepid Columbus and his memorable first voyage into and across the "Sea of Darkness"!
Then pirates did not suspect harm, as theIntrepid appeared to be a Moorish vessel.
This gallant and intrepid partisan chieftain was rather below the middle stature, lean, and swarthy.
Again thisintrepid sailor, "the Nansen of the year 1608," went too far north, and again he found himself caught in the ice of the desolate Arctic regions.
At last the intrepid officer found a boat and paddled for eight hours until he reached the Union squadron.
The intrepid patriot finished his sentence: "may profit by their example.
A few moments later that gallant officer was astonished to hear his intrepid commander express his delight at the discovery that McClellan's whole army was approaching his front.
But he had a powerful and intrepid mind, which he cultivated by the most laborious study.
Murdoch Mackenzie had grown up a brave and intrepid youth, approaching majority.
Thus ended the career of Angus, younger of Glengarry, a chief to whom his followers looked up, and whom they justly regarded as a bold and intrepid leader, though deficient in prudence and strategy.
It is said that, thanks to an intrepid sally of the besieged who came out to the help of the forces that sought to enter the castle, the pagans succeeded in making good their entry into Lavaur.
Yet, there mingled with it all a paradoxical and feminine joy in the intrepid character of the men who would protect them and their homes in life or in death.
And last, Judson Stoddard, alert, resourceful and intrepid rider, soldier and friend.
David Porter was an intrepidbut not a reckless sailor.
The intrepid party was comprised of a few Glengarry Fencibles and three hundred French-Canadian Voltigeurs.
In him the enemy lost its ablest and most intrepid leader.
One day Colonel Plumer sent in an intrepid scout to consult with Colonel Baden-Powell.
Heads were bent forward and a sea of rolling eyeballs glared upon the intrepidform of the young Englishman.
A bold and resolute attitude is the only one which commands their respect, as indeed Gerard's intrepid and apparently foolhardy act served to show.
He had scarcely ridden two hundred yards when he fell mortally wounded by a stray bullet, and the Gordons marched on, leaving behind them the intrepid leader whom every man would have followed cheerfully into the thickest fight.
Two circumstances, however, were at work against the brave and intrepid proctor and his equally brave and intrepid sons.
This intrepid man and these resolute young men, aided by the writs of rebellion and the executive authorities, had nerved themselves up to the collection of tithe, through a spirit that was akin to vengeance.
The intrepid aeronaut, pardonably excited, and fearful lest he should not be seen within the gallery, made frantic efforts to attract attention by waving his flag, and worked his oars so vigorously that one of them broke and fell.
The afternoon was already far advanced, and the short tropical twilight soon gave way to darkness, when the intrepidvoyager disappeared completely from sight.
Well, there are many foolish and some wise, and I, for one, could heartily wish both classes more justly placed; for he who styles me an extreme intrepid democrat pays me a compliment to which I have no claim.
Hiring servants for life,"--that is the most intrepid lucus a non lucendo of the century.
Knox has been styled the intrepid reformer; and that character he unquestionably deserves.
In short, there was no man to whose untiring andintrepid labors the cause of the Reformed religion in Spain was more indebted.
Mustapha, careless of his own life, made the mostintrepid efforts to save his men.
All there were filled with consternation,--all but their intrepid queen, who showed as much self-possession and indifference to danger as if it were only an ordinary riot.
On the scaffold and at the stake this intrepid spirit did not desert them; and the testimony they bore to the truth of the cause for which they suffered had such an effect on the bystanders, that it was found necessary to silence them.
The Flemish mariner was distinguished for the intrepid spirit with which he pushed his voyages into distant and unknown seas.
Even after her intrepid conduct had secured to her the crown, she was still haunted by the same gloomy apparition.
Other intrepid converts followed the example of Hernandez, and with similar success; so that, with the aid of books and spiritual teachers, the number of the faithful multiplied daily throughout the country.
As the admiral was well instructed in military affairs, and was possessed of an intrepid spirit and great fertility of resource, he was precisely the person to undertake the difficult office of defending St. Quentin.
Your brave sword and your intrepid heart have conquered.
Did you not tell me that, by their intrepid patriotism, they had set a sublime example to the men.
Have not the Russians also manifested the noblest devotion, and the most intrepid constancy?
Every one looked with proud and joyful glances now at the aged general, whose noble face was full of courage and determination, and again at the Emperor Alexander, who seemed to contemplate the intrepid soldier with a sort of amazement.
Ladders were secured, and the intrepid Lannes was soon within the old-time fortress, which speedily capitulated.
These two intrepid men, followed by a few others as brave as themselves, managed to find a way by the cellar ventilators, whence they got into the castle.
Yet it was a small beginning, and a less intrepid soul would have been daunted by the many discouragements.
Destournier took several little excursions with the intrepid explorer before the severest of the winter set in.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "intrepid" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
