audacity

They never startled you by a touch of originality, by a fresh audacity of inspiration.

(where Beaufort had had the audacity to hang "Love Victorious," the much-discussed nude of Bouguereau) Archer found Mrs.

A woman of brilliance and audacity, accompanied by a mere boy, came into the place and took seats near them.

Her mother sought out an excellent match for her, and even brought the gentleman to lay his heart and fortune at her feet; but Esther had the audacity to refuse the noble gifts.

Horses, however, are the especial objects of their depredations, and their skill and audacity in stealing them are said to be astonishing.

Let us exercise some small audacity! My head is not one of those the executioner strikes off for disobedience.

Anatole was sincerely fond of Dolokhov for his cleverness and audacity. Dolokhov, who needed Anatole Kuragin's name, position, and connections as a bait to draw rich young men into his gambling set, made use of him and amused himself at his expense without letting the other feel it.

To hint to such musked mariners of oil, and bone, and blubber, were little short of audacity. They know not the thing you distantly allude to.

She is, therefore, always, woman-like, a lover of young men, because they are less cautious, more violent, and with more audacity command her.

They had the audacity to make such a proposition as that to me!

And this last form of jealousy tortured her most of all, especially as he had unwarily told her, in a moment of frankness, that his mother knew him so little that she had had the audacity to try and persuade him to marry the young Princess Sorokina.

With characteristic promptness and audacity he set about this at once, and we cannot doubt that the boots or chamber-maid of the hotel was well bribed to help him in his design.