51 collocations for bolder

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.

This wonderful tide of success instigated his indefatigable genius to bolder attempts, especially as he had no severe criticism to apprehend from the superstitious multitude.

"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.

One of the company having read it aloud, Dr. Johnson said, "Bolder words and more timorous meaning, I think never were brought together.

"'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.'

Where bolder assertions of the rights of mankind, than in Tacitus and Thucydides?

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!

The tigers I have seen in Nepaul near the hills, were sometimes almost a dull red, and at a distance looked like a huge dun cow, while those I have seen in the plains during our annual hunts, were of a bright tawny yellow, longer, more lanky, and not shewing half such a bold front as their bulkier and bolder brethren of the hills.

On the border, as elsewhere, but with the different qualities in even bolder contrast, there was much both of good and bad, of shiftless viciousness and resolute honesty.

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.

A more decided voice than Mr. Simmons'; whiter hands than Mr. Simmons' handled the silken bands; bolder eyes than the weak, pink-bordered orbs of Mr. Simmons looked unabashed admiration into the pretty face of Susie Barringer.

"'No, Polly,' says he, gittin' bolder ez she got madder, 'dere ain' no use talkin'.

By way of securing variety, apsaras, or celestial bayadères, were brought on the scene, as in Kalidasa's Urvasi, permitting the poet to indulge in still bolder flights of fancy.

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

In a larger, bolder hand on the second slip was the following: 'My dear Townsmanpardon what may seem an intrusionbut seeing your anxiety to get the Aage

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!"

He expressed in loftier and bolder language than any earthly thinker the conception that laughter is as divine as tears.

If he finds that we will submit to this, he will attempt bolder measures still."

51 collocations for  bolder