dare-deviltry

• “They had been so full of energy and humor and dare-deviltry.”

  Irresistible

• “To match this dare-deviltry, a saloon man in one frontier town, as a sign for his business, with psychological ingenuity painted across the broad front of his building in big black letters this challenge to God, man, and the devil: _The Road to Ruin_.”

  Cowboy Songs and Other Frontier Ballads

• “You might go far in that quarter for anything of dare-deviltry so likeable.”

  Gilian The Dreamer His Fancy, His Love and Adventure

• “Dashing young cock sparrows would show off before their particular hen sparrows, and earn a cheap reputation for dare-deviltry by going within so many yards of Edwin's lair and then darting away.”

  Love Among the Chickens A Story of the Haps and Mishaps on an English Chicken Farm

• “A certain dare-deviltry went hand in hand with his work -- a calling in which a careless load dispatcher, a cut wire, or”

  Half Portions

• “To fool away half an hour in dressing, knowing that it was very likely she might be summoning men to kill him -- to come down confident and unperturbed, possibly to meet his death -- was such a piece of dare-deviltry as won reluctant admiration, in spite of her detestation of him.”

  Brand Blotters

• “She saw the smile upon his lips, and it was as wine to sick nerves; for even upon warlike Barsoom where all men are brave, woman reacts quickly to quiet indifference to danger -- to dare-deviltry that is without bombast.”

  Thuvia, Maid of Mars

• “She had always heard that cowboys were chivalrous, and brave, and fascinating in their picturesque dare-deviltry, but from the lone specimen which she had met she could not see that they possessed any of those qualities.”

  Lonesome Land

• “Sheer dare-deviltry would arouse in them a responsiveness which had remained numb to the call of industry.”

  A Pagan of the Hills

• “So saying, he rolled his bright-blue eyes at me and Captain Watson with such utter good-nature and dare-deviltry as I have never seen equalled.”

  The Heart's Highway: A Romance of Virginia in the Seventeenth Century

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