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  • That plump of spears that are spurring on so fast are doubtless commanded by some wild kinsman of Morton, or some such daring fear-nothing as neither regards God nor man.

    The Monastery 2008

  • There was nothing to fear-nothing that wouldn't have a better chance at him tomorrow night, when they were sleeping under the stars.

    The Goblin Mirror Cherryh, C. J. 1992

  • There was nothing to fear-nothing that wouldn't have a better chance at him tomorrow night, when they were sleeping under the stars.

    The Goblin Mirror Cherryh, C. J. 1992

  • He has no religion, no concept of morality, no civic responsibility, no fear-nothing.

    The Autobiography of Malcolm X X, Malcolm, 1925-1965 1964

  • I, of course, feel very vain of my exploit, and glorify myself accordingly, being particularly careful, all the time, not to inform my admirers that my courage was the result of the know-nothing, fear-nothing principle; for I was certainly ignorant, until I had passed them, of the dangers of the passage.

    The Shirley Letters from California Mines in 1851-52 Louise Amelia Knapp Smith Clappe

  • And then, realizing more and more, week by week, what he regarded as the inertia in the departments that ran the country, and seeing the importance of stirring the feelings of his principal Cabinet colleagues to wholesale, passionate, fear-nothing strokes which should bring the end of the war within sight, there grew upon him resistlessly the thought that he must himself secure supreme control of the war in Britain.

    Lloyd George The Man and His Story Frank Dilnot

  • Oh! it was a glorious thing to see the fear-nothing, dare-anything fashion in which, when he saw how matters stood, Ben Bolt threw down his stick and bundle, drew his cutlass, and attacked the two bears at once, single-handed, crying, "Come on," in a voice of thunder.

    The World of Ice 1859

  • Oh! it was a glorious thing to see the fear-nothing, dare-anything fashion in which, when he saw how matters stood, Ben Bolt threw down his stick and bundle, drew his cutlass, and attacked the two bears at once, single-handed, crying "Come on," in a voice of thunder.

    The World of Ice 1859

  • That plump of spears that are spurring on so fast are doubtless commanded by some wild kinsman of Morton, or some such daring fear-nothing as neither regards God nor man.

    The Monastery Walter Scott 1801

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