27 collocations for bold

John Huggins was as bold a man As trade did ever know, A warehouse good he had, that stood Hard by the church of Bow.

"It is a striking circumstance," says Mr. Hallam, "that the high-minded inventors of this great art tried, at the very outset, so bold a flight as the printing of an entire Bible, and executed it with astonishing success.

"'Sir,and, good faith, I fain had added Knight, But that I heard thee call thyself a knave, Shamed am I that I so rebuked, reviled, Missaid thee; noble I am; and thought the King Scorn'd me and mine; and now thy pardon, friend, For thou hast ever answer'd courteously, And wholly bold thou art, and meek withal As any of Arthur's best, but, being knave, Hast mazed my wit: I marvel what thou art.'

Nor would it be easy to praise too highly the large and patriotic spirit which moved the heads of the Expedition to an act involving at once so generous a renunciation of all selfish hopes and prospects, and so bold an assumption of responsibility.

Madam I fear I am grown too bold a begger.

O'er ocean with a thousand masts sails on the young man bold One boat, hard-rescued from the deep, draws into port the old!

He would set off early in the morning with Paquette, bold his council, and return to us the same evening.

When wrapped in his mantle, with his mutilated countenance covered with a mask which he generally wore, the informer might have passed for a cavalier; so tall and well formed was his figure, and so bold his deportment.

We oftentimes disputed: thy intention Was ever good; but thou wert wont to play The Moralist and Preacher, and wouldst rail at me That I strove after things too high for me, Giving my faith to bold unlawful dreams, And still extol to me the golden mean Thy wisdom hath been proved a thriftless friend To thy own self.

She knows that her dominion over the world must be short, while the Anglo-Saxon race bold a mighty empire in India.

Which done, hee with his attendants returned home, to the no small admiration of all Christians, that heard of it, especially of the French and Venetian ambassadors, who neuer in the like case against the second person of the Turkish Empire durst haue attempted so bold an enterprise with hope of so friendly audience, and with so speedie redresse.

WILLIAM HOHENZOLLERN, whichever he may be, is asked to bold up his hand.

But whether god or fortune made him bold Its hard to read: yet hardie will he had To overcome, that made him lesse adrad*.

Staunch the steed, and bold the knight That would follow such a flight!"

It is the rarest thing in this world for any man, however profound his intellect and bold his spirit, to be emancipated from the great and leading ideas of his age.

With any other woman than Athenais Reneaux he would have hesitated to deal so bold an offensive stroke; but his confidence in her quickness of apprehension and her unshakable self-possession was both implicit and well-placed.

So bold a talker, in common, should know how to be silent at need.

In truth, Blake, despite the imputation of insanity which was his contemporaries' and has later been his commentators' refuge from assenting to his conclusions, is as bold a thinker in his own way as Neitzsche and as consistent.

But since the action is not properly one, nor that accomplished in the last successes, I have judged it too bold a title for a few stanzas, which are little more in number than a single Iliad, or the longest of the Æneids.

On the subject of civil freedom, the protector could not assume so bold a tone.

But a very short time had we been quietly at home when a summons came to my husband to collect the principal chiefs of the Winnebagoes and meet General Scott and Governor Reynolds at Rock Island, where it was proposed to bold a treaty for the purchase of all the lands east and south of the Wisconsin.

But so divine, so noble a repast I'd seldom, and with moderation taste, For highest cordials all their virtue lose By a too frequent, and too bold an use:

Rudolf picked up his sword, and said in as bold a voice as he could manage"Please, could any of you tell us the right path to" A burst of sharp squeals, shrill laughs, and jeering remarks interrupted his question.

"Syr Tankarde he is as bold a wight As ever Old England bred; His armoure it is of the silver bright, And his coloure is ruby red; And whene'er on the bully ye calle, He is readye to give ye a falle;

He knew too well that the man walking at his side was as clever an intriguer and as bold an adventurer as had ever moved up and down Europe "working the game" in search of pigeons to pluck.

27 collocations for  bold