Adjective, : a bold hero. ,He apologized for being so bold as to speak to the emperor. ,a bold adventure. ,Einstein was a bold mathematician. a difficult problem needing a bold answer. ,a bold pattern. ,a bold promontory. ,bold waters. From Dictionary.com.
"I wish you much joy in this rash, overbold talker!". From Wordnik.com. [Mary Queen Of Scotland And The Isles]
His gaze moved over her face in a manner overbold for a mere groom. From Wordnik.com. [My Devilish Scotsman] Reference
Her lashes, suddenly lifted, met his fully, and drove his look, grown overbold, to cover. From Wordnik.com. [Under the Rose] Reference
At the question 'Can you build this bridge?' he was overbold, and replied: 'Yes, sir, or any other. From Wordnik.com. [The Lincoln Story Book] Reference
“Then, madame, am I not overbold in offering myself to be your partner for the next quadrille?”. From Wordnik.com. [Domestic Peace] Reference
‘She managed to be pretty if not beautiful despite a nose that was overbold at best’—at best?. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2010-05-01] Reference
Tall for a woman, she managed to be pretty if not beautiful despite a nose that was overbold at best. From Wordnik.com. [The Path of Daggers]
I feared that if we stayed beneath your roof my girl might attract the notice of some overbold servant. From Wordnik.com. [Asimov's Science Fiction]
He specially resented the terrible combat "in the dawning" between the Baron and the overbold Balmawhapple. From Wordnik.com. [Red Cap Tales Stolen from the Treasure Chest of the Wizard of the North] Reference
But, sir, 'went on the lady quickly, and caught at Beaumains' arm that already had lifted the horn, 'be ye not overbold. From Wordnik.com. [King Arthur's Knights The Tales Re-told for Boys & Girls] Reference
The historian Fuller assumed this to have been the case, for he complains that the "stage have been overbold" in dealing with. From Wordnik.com. [Inns and Taverns of Old London] Reference
The men Nightcrawler had scattered to keep ours from fleeing now battled overbold Rebels who clambered up the retaining wall. From Wordnik.com. [The Black Company]
Nothing afloat could even threaten that citadel-the overbold attackers simply disappeared in brief flashes of coruscant vapor. From Wordnik.com. [Galactic Patrol]
She had very handsome dark eyes, though perhaps overbold at times, but her lips were thick and her nose was flattened as if generations of. From Wordnik.com. [The Palace of Darkened Windows] Reference
Shall Troy o'erthrown exalt our pride and make us overbold?. From Wordnik.com. [Post-Augustan Poetry From Seneca to Juvenal] Reference
Women who seek a real lover should beware the overbold one. From Wordnik.com. [Hints for Lovers] Reference
But he thought of the overbold, and of kings who have dallied with fate. From Wordnik.com. [The Story of Sigurd the Volsung and the Fall of the Niblungs] Reference
But in my error I had blundered, overbold, and I tried to explain confusedly. From Wordnik.com. [Marjorie] Reference
The girl kept her appointment unpainted and unadorned, afraid and overbold by turns. From Wordnik.com. [The Light That Failed] Reference
Then at last he asked, almost shyly, and as if he deemed himself overbold, how it was that. From Wordnik.com. [A Prince of Cornwall A Story of Glastonbury and the West in the Days of Ina of Wessex] Reference
"I was overbold, Princess; but I knew the Father would report me kindly; and I was hungry.". From Wordnik.com. [The Prince of India — Volume 01] Reference
Neither Benton nor Cara had alluded to the man's overbold assertion that he would find a way. From Wordnik.com. [The Lighted Match] Reference
"Then, madame, am I not overbold in offering myself to be your partner for the next quadrille?". From Wordnik.com. [Domestic Peace] Reference
He looked at her as he said this, but instantly withdrew his eyes, fearing he had been overbold. From Wordnik.com. [The Golden Dog] Reference
He said, reddening: "I almost fear to tell thee, lest thou think me overbold and be angry with me.". From Wordnik.com. [Child Christopher and Goldilind the Fair] Reference
We were none of us overbold; our faith was not strong enough to run the risk of spoiling the illusion. From Wordnik.com. [The Four Pools Mystery] Reference
When one got to know him well one could only tell it by his half-closed eyes and his overbold behavior to women. From Wordnik.com. [L'Assommoir] Reference
Tigers, he knew, were shy beasts, but one who had been long cattle-fed in this sumptuous style might prove overbold. From Wordnik.com. [The Day's Work - Volume 1] Reference
The superior refused to accede to this request; accordingly, those fathers are always overbold and impudent in the pulpits. From Wordnik.com. [The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 Explorations by early navigators, descriptions of the islands and their peoples, their history and records of the catholic missions, as related in contemporaneous books and manuscripts, showing the political, economic, commercial and religious conditions of those islands from their earliest relations with European nations to the close of the nineteenth century, Volume XXVI, 1636] Reference
"Thou art overbold, Jeanne, smiling up in a young man's face and puckering thy brows like some maid coquetting for a lover.". From Wordnik.com. [A Little Girl in Old Detroit] Reference
"Why art thou so overbold, Frithiof, that thou art come here without the leave of my brethren to make the gods angry with thee?". From Wordnik.com. [The Story Of Frithiof The Bold 1875] Reference
Michael on the ice, and exchanging stories we had heard of the disasters and hairbreadth escapes attending such overbold venture. From Wordnik.com. [Ten Thousand Miles with a Dog Sled A Narrative of Winter Travel in Interior Alaska] Reference
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