Thou knowest the valour of Segasto, Spread through all the kingdom of Arragon, And such as hath found triumph and favours, Never daunted at any time?

Mine arms are not so weak, nor are my limbs So feebled with mine age, nor is my heart So daunted with the dread of cowardice,

There was something insidious and daunting about the African coast.

I like to see hawks sitting daunted in shallow holes, not daring to spread a feather, and doves in a row by the prickle bushes, and shut-eyed cattle, turned tail to the wind in a patient doze.

But the old Manitou, though, daunted like his children by the approach of the fire-ships which he probably considered demons of a new dynasty, he had suffered his woods to be felled to feed their pride, had been less patient of an encroachment, which did not to him seem so authorized by the law of the strongest, and had scattered those leaves as carelessly as the others of that year.

" This a little out-Heroded Herod, but the belle was not a person to be easily daunted on such a subject.