He is a roguish little elf, A gay audacious fellow, Who tramps about in doublet green And skirt of brightest yellow; In ev'ry field, by ev'ry road, He peeps among the grasses, And shows his sunny little face To ev'ry one that passes.

One could wish, notwithstanding, that our own people would not import their audacious usages into this country.

Eunané was always the most audacious trespasser and representative rebel.

Time was, when these audacious freebooters lay under Lundy Island in the British Channel, waiting to intercept British traders!

Must I lay to the philter's magic this audacious notion; that the face of Little Miss had tangibly come to me in some night of the mind?

When they saw the mass of living beings which had assembled within the wall of the ducal palace, the most audacious of that throng became more hardy, and even the wavering grew strong.

Too much love on the part of the gendarme, one audacious step further, would bring about the unexpected, would abruptly change the eclogue into an official indictment, would reconvert the amorous satyr into a stony-hearted policeman, would transform Tircis into Vidocq; and then this strange thing would be seen, a passenger guillotined because a gendarme had committed an outrage.

How many a time have I Cloven with arm still lustier, heart more daring, The wave all roughen'd: with a swimmer's stroke Flinging the billows back from my drench'd hair, And laughing from my lip th' audacious brine Which kiss'd it like a wine-cup.

To have defended Roscius against all the influence of Sulla, then the most powerful man in Rome, was considered bold and audacious.

For a lawyer to aim at the highest office in the State, without a great family to back him, would have been deemed as audacious as for such a man as Burke to aspire to a seat in the cabinet during the reign of George III.

This may seem rather audacious language, considering that my whole force now consists of two gunboats.

Nor are the more audacious exhibitions of the dark ages by any means exploded.

The battles were costly, and many of our comrades paid with their lives for our audacious advance.

Courageous, bold, audacious in facing riots, and thereby master of the people, he was at the same time endowed with prodigious activity.

He, however, like his predecessors, attempted before long to hamper the march of the audacious foreigner; but the die had been cast, and the Duke of Orleans outstripped Law himself in the application of his theories.

" Charles Edward had followed this audacious counsel.

As prudent as he was audacious, Frederick had been for a long time paving the way for the dismemberment of the country he had seemed to protect.

And, but for the currents of a strange and formidable fear that this conception of Skale's audacious Experiment set stirring in his soul, Spinrobin's enthusiasm would have been possibly as great as his own.

Waves of pity, too, invaded him for the first timepity for this sweet girl, brought up in ignorance of any other possible world; pity for the deaf old housekeeper, already partially broken, and both sacrificed to the dominant idea of this single, heaven-climbing enthusiast; pity last of all for himself, swept headlong before he had time to reflect, into the audacious purpose of this violent and headstrong super-man.

Yet the whole madness of the scene came to Spinrobin with a freezing wind of terror; for about it was a lawless, audacious blasphemy, that must surely win for itself a quite appalling punishment....

She called him with those big grey eyes to the sweet and common uses of life, instead of to the heights of some audacious heaven where they might be as gods with Philip Skale.

One by one the Letters fled away, leaving only a murmur of incredibly sweet echoes behind them in the hills, as the master-sound, spoken by this fearless and audacious man, gathered them into their appointed places in the cellar.

Volumes of colored smoke, like hills moving, went with it; and with it, too, went the formsthe substance of their forms, at least, of their "sounds" releasedof Philip Skale, Mrs. Mawle, and all the paraphernalia of gongs, drapery, wires, sheeted walls, sand-patterns, and the preparations of a quarter of a century of labor and audacious research.

Yesterday afternoon some audacious youngsters asked me to chaperon a tea-party up the river.

"Ay, John Mortimer," quoth Miss Christie, with an audacious twinkle in her eyes, "I'm no that clear that I don't deserve all the pain I've got for my sins against ye."