He was doing a very courageous, albeit a very temerarious, thing. From Wordnik.com. [Escape on Venus]
Père did insist on feeding potato chips to a temerarious chipmunk, over our objections. From Wordnik.com. [Stuff We Did On Our Vacation, Part One; Or, A Pictorial Essay on Vampire Habitats] Reference
I pray you do not think it temerarious of me to submit my novel, THE RAVENOUS WEREWOLF, for your perusal. From Wordnik.com. [We Love You!] Reference
Mecca in the disguise of a pilgrim, a feat that only the most temerarious of men would have dared even to dream of. From Wordnik.com. [The Life of Sir Richard Burton] Reference
One day, however, an idiosyncratic wunderkind came to town, determined to rid the region of this temerarious profligate. From Wordnik.com. [We Love You!] Reference
It is the (word indistinct) the most temerarious and most dangerous adventure to world peace which has happened since the last world war. From Wordnik.com. [23RD OF OCTOBER] Reference
My boss, nefarious nazi that he was, seemed to take it easier on his poor beleaguered employees if we dressed in the latest temerarious fashions. From Wordnik.com. [We Love You!] Reference
The Kalonian had been a badly shaken entity; it was a measure of his state of mind that he did not liquidate the temerarious Tellurian then and there. From Wordnik.com. [First Lensman]
But now he was aware that the fluctuating vapour about him was something more than vapour, and the temerarious excitement of his first essay was shot with fear. From Wordnik.com. [Twelve Stories and a Dream, by H. G. Wells] Reference
A little teasing was generally necessary, but the resistance today had begun to look ominous and Alec, as we know, too temerarious, had retired in disorder to the woodpile. From Wordnik.com. [The Imperialist] Reference
In vain his officers showed him how temerarious was the venture, and how much more prudent it would be to make off with one rich prize than to court capture by overgreediness. From Wordnik.com. [The Story of the Barbary Corsairs] Reference
If the slaying of the temerarious card-player had cast a cloud over the. From Wordnik.com. [The Wit and Humor of America, Volume X (of X)] Reference
Does it not suppose, that the former judgement was temerarious or negligent?. From Wordnik.com. [Life Of Johnson]
Only the most temerarious ever ventured to ask a forecast of Mrs. Owen's plans. From Wordnik.com. [A Hoosier Chronicle] Reference
The author of it is obscure, is ambiguous, is affected, is temerarious, is barbarous. '. From Wordnik.com. [The Lives of the Poets of Great Britain and Ireland]
There is surely nothing either “temerarious” or paradoxical in a statement like this. From Wordnik.com. [The Idea of a University Defined and Illustrated: In Nine Discourses Delivered to the Catholics of Dublin] Reference
It seems as though in all that he is doing there is nothing temerarious except the enterprise itself. From Wordnik.com. [Kościuszko A Biography] Reference
He awaited results with a mixed interest, but the farther history of that temerarious despatch he never learned. From Wordnik.com. [The Romance of a Pro-Consul Being The Personal Life And Memoirs Of The Right Hon. Sir George Grey, K.C.B.] Reference
When the guard mounted to his post he was sure he saw a temerarious Yankee in front of him, and hastened to slay him. From Wordnik.com. [Andersonville — Volume 1] Reference
Speed: "The King was one of the first that entred the breach, choosing rather to be thought temerarious then timorous.". From Wordnik.com. [NYT > Home Page] Reference
Finally, it is denominated (c) rash, or temerarious, if it rests on insufficient conjectures or scarcely probable arguments. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss] Reference
No Franklin and no later diplomatist in shirt sleeves ever felt more at home in temerarious surroundings than did Mark Twain. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter 7. Mark Twain] Reference
What makes this scenario implausible is that such a temerarious act would trigger an obliterating counter-strike by the United States. From Wordnik.com. Reference
Recovering my self-possession, I asked if there were modes of transit by which I could safely visit this temerarious and remote people. From Wordnik.com. [The Coming Race] Reference
Malebranche in veneration; (48) but he may have accidentally come into collision with theologians, or made temerarious assertions, notwithstanding. From Wordnik.com. [The Idea of a University Defined and Illustrated: In Nine Discourses Delivered to the Catholics of Dublin] Reference
He had orders not to admit any gentleman visitor till after twelve o'clock, from which he drew the temerarious conclusion that he was free to admit ladies up to that hour. From Wordnik.com. [A Hungarian Nabob] Reference
"It is no marvel," quoth she, "if anything be thought temerarious and confused, when we know not the order it hath. From Wordnik.com. [The Theological Tractates and The Consolation of Philosophy] Reference
In his Wednesday post Mr. Tucker was temerarious enough to suggest that women should pay cheaper greens fees than men at the golf course ". From Wordnik.com. [Golf Girl's Diary] Reference
I understand, temerarious. From Wordnik.com. [The Country of the Blind, and Other Stories] Reference
Yet do abhor such temerarious deeds. From Wordnik.com. [Several Poems Compiled with Great Variety of Wit and Learning, Full of Delight] Reference
English Dictionary, is temerarious adj. From Wordnik.com. [NYT > Home Page] Reference
It may be so, but the quest is temerarious. From Wordnik.com. [Hinduism and Buddhism, An Historical Sketch, Vol. 1] Reference
This, according to the cardinals, "is scandalous, temerarious, impious, and erroneous.". From Wordnik.com. [Books Fatal to Their Authors] Reference
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