Do we say bold or bowled

bold 4845 occurrences

Scorpions are common in hot countries: they are very bold and watchful: when any thing approaches, they erect their tails, and stand ready to inflict the direful sting.

Or, bold ambition kindling in my breast, Attempt some arduous task?

The language seems to fall short of his ideas; he pours along, familiarizing the terms of philosophy, with bold inversions, and sonorous periods; but we may apply to him, what Pope has said of Homer: "It is the sentiment that swells and fills out the diction, which rises with it, and forms itself about it: like glass in the furnace, which grows to a greater magnitude, as the breath within is more powerful, and the heat more intense.

A slight shower of rain having replenished the well they were camped at, Giles determined to make a bold push to the west, trusting to the powers of endurance of his camels to carry him on to water.

Whilst Sturt and kindred bold spirits had been painfully but surely piecing together the geographical puzzle of the south-east corner of the Australian continent, a similar struggle between man and Nature had commenced in the south-west.

Having crossed this river, and still pursuing a southerly course, he arrived at a sandstone tableland, and on the 23rd had, as Gregory writes, "at last the satisfaction of observing the bold outlines of Mount Augustus.

We have now turned the last page of the story of those bold spirits who played no mean part in the making of Australasia by exploring the continent.

All through the win-ter, long and cold, Dear Minnie ev-ery morn-ing fed The little spar-rows, pert and bold, And ro-bins, with their breasts so red.

E-dith is not very bold, And at first she fear-ed the cold; Now at last you see her run Down the steps to join the fun.

They rise from the sea with a long, bold sweep, but each peak falls off in a precipice on the opposite side, as if the chain were the barrier of the world and there was nothing but space beyond.

The range, after we had passed it, presented a grand, bold, broken outline, blue in the morning vapor, and wreathed with shifting belts of cloud.

But the knavish varlets are hardly bold enough for such a climax of villany.

" The letter to Reuben was very long, giving in substance the facts which have been told above, and concluding thus: "I feel a great call from the Lord to do all I can in this business, and I hope you won't take it amiss if I make bold to decide what's best to be done without consulting you.

Then he said, very simply, "I've laid awake all night, ma'am, tryin' to get bold enough to come and ask ye." Draxy looked at her husband, and said in a low voice, "You know what I told you just now, Mr. Kinney?"

" Ike turned to go, but lingered, and finally stammered: "I hope, sir, ye don't take it that I'm askin' a charity; I make bold to believe I could be worth to ye's much's my keepin'; I'm considerable handy 'bout a good many things, an' I can do a day's mowin' yet with any man in the parish, I don't care who he is.

But the bold suggestion was only the half-conscious thought of every one there, and the discussion grew more and more serious.

For I that day was absent, as befel, Bound on a Voyage uncouth and obscure; Far on Excursion towards the Gates of Hell, Squar'd in full Legion [such Command we had] To see that none thence issued forth a Spy, Or Enemy; while God was in his Work, Lest he, incens'd at such Eruption bold, Destruction with Creation might have mix'd.

A good and truly bold Spirit, continued he, is ever actuated by Reason and a Sense of Honour and Duty: The Affectation of such a Spirit exerts it self in an Impudent Aspect, an over-bearing Confidence, and a certain Negligence of giving Offence.

Thus, the Pilgrim Fathers of New England,the grandest profugi of all time,or even the bold adventurers of Spain, would have been moved only by intense suffering, in some form, to exchange their homes for a wilderness.

It was a bold, blunt way of putting the question.

Mr. Smith seems to us well worth knowing as the type of a great class of Englishmen,that class to which the author of "School-Days at Rugby" gives the comprehensive patronymic of Brown,a class bold, honest, energetic, not too affectionate, not too intellectual, perhaps, but, by virtue of their strength of hand, head, and will, and their inborn honesty of soul, the masters in some important respects of all the men that live.

But, while circumspection and prudence are excellent qualities in every great emergency, they become the allies of tyranny whenever they restrain prompt, bold and decisive action against it.

In that case I must make bold to unclify some other nobleman."

There is no spot on earth, I think, equal to the Polar Regions for bringing out into bold relief two great and apparently antagonistic truth'snamely, man's urgent need of all his powers to accomplish the work of his own deliverance, and man's utter helplessness and entire dependence on the sovereign will of God.

It was a bold new motif creeping in among ancient and venerable airs.

bowled 125 occurrences

Big and strong and swift, with fists like a blacksmith's, Kurt bowled over this assailant and that one.

Such a type, for instance, may be picked out by a football coach for an important position in a line-up, simply on the tremendous impressiveness of the muscle make-up, only to see him bowled over and out in the first scrimmage.

The carriage left a cloud of dust behind as it bowled along over the dry country road.

Ashton was soon left behind, and carriage and buggy bowled along slowly over a country road lined on either side with trees and bushes and tidy farms.

Some of the hands, as well as the supercargo, have been bowled over by fire-water.

The road for some distance being rather steep, we preferred to walk and let the carriage follow, but when nearing the junction with the Pierrefitte road, we mounted again and bowled along at a smart pace over the well-known bridge to the hotel.

When he came in I was busy whittling my axe-helve, it being my pleasure at that moment to make long, thin, curly shavings so light that many of them were caught on the hearth and bowled by the draught straight to fiery destruction.

He shot at him in a black streak and Pipoonaskoos bowled over like a fat baby.

As we bowled down the road toward a group of brick houses on the left, a shell passed not more than fifty yards in front of us and through the side of one of these houses as easily as a circus rider pops through a tissue-paper hoop.

Harry told how he had bowled the old farmer over just as the man was about to shoot at Frank, and then he convulsed them with laughter by relating the capture of the gun and the chase he had led the hayseed.

"Bowled over on Spion Kop," said Bob, "and fairly riddled as he lay.

" He imagined he was being asked whether the batsman had been bowled, and it never occurred to him that you could be "stumped out" in this way.

I was quite certain that the man who bowled me out was a direct descendant of Julius Caesar.

It was generally agreed that such a ball had never been bowled before.

Thus, from the first ball bowled in this historic match there arose the whole of the remarkable events recorded above.

Therein is shown the complete performances with the bat of two renowned cricketers; for, alas I in once more trying to play up to the form of Dumkins, I was bowled "slick" the very next ball, "as hath been said or sung.

" On the other hand, if we sow the wild oats of cricketin other words, if we risk everything for the fleeting satisfaction of a blind "slog"we shall be bowled, stumped, or caught out for a moral certainty.

When the fox appeared the deerhound made after him, and, in his attempt to dodge, reynard was bowled over on to his back.

You could have bowled over my whole scheme in a minute by being honest and telling me to bring on your cousin, John Massey.

William Grey then set forth to muster his men, remembering with great complacency that Samuel Long, the very man who had bowled us out at a fatal return match some years ago at S, our neighbours south-by-east, had luckily, in a remove of a quarter of a mile last Lady Day, crossed the boundaries of his old parish and actually belonged to us.

The only drawback in my enjoyment was the failure of the pretty boy David Willis, who, injudiciously put in first, and playing for the first time in a match amongst men and strangers, was seized with such a fit of shamefaced shyness that he could scarcely hold his bat, and was bowled out without a stroke, from actual nervousness.

So, turning our head eastward, we bowled along merrily with the stream, dashing down our late antagonist like a flash of lightning, then across the lake, and through a fleet of bannered rafts, till we landed on the Chats Falls Island, where we found our ponies ready to whisk us along the mid-air railway.

"Twill be stopped at the bounds' ditch," thinks I; but I was never more out in my reckoning, for it bowled fair through the gap, and made directly up to me.

Nevertheless, we had made a push to get on; things in Kashmir are often less gloomy than their reports would make one believe, and so we bowled quite cheerfully down the road from Tangmarg, basking in the hot and sunny air, which seemed to us really delicious after the raw cheerlessness of the last few days at Gulmarg.

By noon all was ready, and amid the rattle and jingle of many harness bells and the salaams of the domestics, we bowled out of Baramula, and set forward down the valley of the Jhelum.

Do we say   bold   or  bowled