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  • We are commanded to draw nigh, and to have our access unto God with boldness,

    The Sermons of John Owen 1616-1683 1968

  • "Oh! that I could cut these wires and restrict Satan's laws to these underground dominions," I said with rising boldness,

    Mr. World and Miss Church-Member A twentieth century allegory

  • "It would depend on the somebody," I said boldly, facing her boldness,

    The Black Colonel James Milne 1908

  • And, amazed as much at this strange RENCONTRE as at the man's boldness,

    A Gentleman of France Stanley John Weyman 1891

  • "Oh, Wilhelm," cried Elsa, in deep distress at the young man's lack of diplomacy, while she could not but admire his ill-timed boldness,

    The Strong Arm Robert Barr 1881

  • Why, Bathsheba, you have lost all the pluck and sauciness you formerly had, and upon my life if I had known what a chicken-hearted creature you were under all your boldness,

    Far from the Madding Crowd 1874

  • -- the only one which had even the general appearance of boldness,

    Forty-Six Years in the Army John M. Schofield

  • "If I had been ready for you, you would have repented your boldness,

    Sunshine Bill William Henry Giles Kingston 1847

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