owdacious

• “You may indeed, sir, and may the good Lord preserve you from a like harm, which hit make my blood boil to think of my pore Mark's hescape, him being what you might call owdacious to that degree.”

  The Copper Princess A Story of Lake Superior Mines

• “‘Say it again, you wile, owdacious fellow!’ said Mr. Bumble.”

  Oliver Twist

• “You owdacious young monkey!" he cried, slewing his head round on his shoulders, even as the old _Victory's_ hull slewed with the tide, so that he could look me full in the face.”

  Young Tom Bowling The Boys of the British Navy

• “With that she let loose the most owdacious white bantam and scattered some corn on the floor; then she sat down and laughed like an imp when the foolish thing hopped up to her and flopped onter her lap.”

  The Man Thou Gavest

• “Now then, owdacious," she began, somewhat slurring of speech.”

  The Amateur Gentleman

• “But none so owdacious ugly -- if you'll allow the expression.”

  The Invisible Man

• “I'll have a warrant out foh you dis day, Geddes, you owdacious villyum!”

  A Woman Named Smith

• “Well! the owdacious!" exclaimed Mrs Bowldler in a kind of hysterical titter, snatching at her bodice somewhere over the region of her heart.”

  Hocken and Hunken

• “You owdacious boy!' says I. 'Didn't you promise your ma you'd leave off them tricks?”

  In the Yule-Log Glow, Book II Christmas Tales from 'Round the World

• “But none so owdacious ugly—if you’ll allow the expression.”

  Mr. Thomas Marvel

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