audacity

• Great was the scorn with which she repulsed his audacity, and her sisters participated in her disdain. —  The Posthumous Works of Thomas De Quincey, Vol. 1
• Others explain the beautiful; and with a charming audacity, a courage that is quite exhilarating, propound some theoretic fancy which has the same relation to philosophy that Quarle's Emblems bear to that pictorial art they especially delight to descant upon. —  Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 379, May, 1847
• People do fear a rebuff wonderfully, and all her audacity was in her thoughts. —  Chance A Tale in Two Parts
• He felt that audacity was the safest line of action, for he knew that if the savage meant mischief, to pretend absolute ignorance of his existence would be less likely to draw a shot than sudden flight--which, however swiftly carried out, could by no means equal the flight of a bullet. —  The Buffalo Runners A Tale of the Red River Plains
• "You're a coward with all your audacity, and do tricks you are ashamed to acknowledge. —  Helen and Arthur or, Miss Thusa's Spinning Wheel

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