Garibaldi usually lodged his men in convents, to the terror and horror of their inmates, sending them thence to reconnoitre the enemy's positions, and harass them by deeds of daredevil courage.

Afternoon of that very day, at the reserve camp somewhere back there, had brought an officer's address to the soldiers, a strong and emphatic appeal as well as orderto obey, to do one's duty, to take no chances, to be eternally vigilant, to believe that every man had advantage on his side, even in war, if he were not a fool or a daredevil.

He sang, a certain daredevil light in his eye now, a suspicion of a covert smile on his face.

He yearned for the daredevil courage sufficient to risk all on a single throw by pulling his gun left-handed and sending a bullet smack through the scornful face of Racey Dawson.

desperado, rashling^, madcap, daredevil, Hotspur, fire eater, bully, bravo, Hector, scapegrace, enfant perdu [Fr.]; Don Quixote, knight-errant, Icarus; adventurer; gambler, gamester; dynamitard^; boomer

For the old reckless, careless, daredevil spirit was still alive in her, as I could plainly see now that she abandoned herself entirely to the free sway of impulse; the old twinkle of mirth and mischief was in her eyes; she was no longer a fine lady, but a merry vagabond again, and when she laughed 'twas with her hands clasping her sides, her head thrown back, and all her white teeth gleaming in the light.

[-18-] "I am not saying that we must spare absolutely all wrongdoers, for we must cut out of the way the daredevil and busybody, the man of evil nature and evil devices, who gives himself up to an unyielding, persistent baseness, just as we treat parts of the body that are quite incurable.

There was a crowd of them, men from France's African colonies, from Algeria or Morocco, who had been working in the French mines and were now going back to take the places of trained soldiersthe daredevil "Turcos"sent north to fight the Germans.

The younger Hungarian was one of those slumbering daredevils who combine a compact, rugged shapestrong wrists, hair low on the foreheadwith the soft voice and shy manners of a girl.

He has a hunting-box in the shires, and is a regular daredevil over a big country they tell me.

They were a reckless set of brown daredevils.

SEE Huffer, Fred K. CHARTERIS, LESLIE. Daredevil.

BURTIS, THOMSON. Daredevils of the air.

pb id='151.png' n='1960h1/A/0821' /> PARKHILL, FORBES. Daredevil trail.

The Innocent daredevils.

SEE Huffer, Fred K. CHARTERIS, LESLIE. Daredevil.

BURTIS, THOMSON. Daredevils of the air.

pb id='151.png' n='1960h1/A/0821' /> PARKHILL, FORBES. Daredevil trail.

The Innocent daredevils.

He said he could not start, as the hired coolies from Kunis had been so terrified by the horrors of yesterday that they had departed in the night, sacrificing their pay rather than run any more risks with such daredevils as the mem-sahib and me.

The German high-school girl admires the scars in the face of a "corps-student," not, certainly, because she considers them beautiful, but because they stand for a daredevil, masculine spirit which pleases her.

There was no doubt of itPitt Bushyager was handsome in a rough, daredevil sort of way.

He was looking at me with that daredevil smile of his, the handsomest man there, with his curling brown mustache and goatee; and nodded at me as the judge got into the carriage in the back seat with Mrs. Stone, and Virginia came up in her pretty pink silk, with the Paisley shawl around her shoulders, to be helped up into the front seat with me.

"What a daredevil!

" In the house I have seen her catch one by the wings on a window and, holding it carefully ask me to watch her captivesometimes a a great daredevil hornet, lion-manedas he lay stabbing with his poison-dagger.