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On the first reading of the report they aroused no more interest in me than the ordinary lip-honor we all do to conventionality I had heard of the great fearlessness of this report, and I supposed that this bending of the knee was nothing but the innocent hypocrisy of the reformer who wants to make his proposal not too shocking. But it was a mistake.
He owed it to the sea, for the sea gave him health, self-reliance, and fearlessness, and that persistent energy which saved him from becoming that which elegant tastes and native refinement make of too many of our young men, a mere literary or social dilettante, and raised him up to be a champion of right, a chivalrous defender of the oppressed, whose name has honored his calling.
Despite his fearlessness, one must subscribe to Edmund Clarence Stedman's epigram: "There are other lights in which a dear one may be regarded than as the future mother of men." Walt let in a lot of fresh air on the stuffy sex question of his day, but, in demanding equal sexual rights for women, he meant it in the reverse sense as propounded by our old grannies' purity leagues.
The last reason for fearlessness touches a tender chord, and discloses a gracious thought of God as Father, which softens the tremendous preceding word: 'Who is able to destroy both soul and body in hell. Take both designations together, and let them work together in producing the awe which makes us brave, and the filial trust which makes us braver.
As for its courage and fearlessness, it is peerless in those qualities, for it retreated from the banks of the Tigris without having seen an enemy. When I tell you that I myself was the greatest hero among them, you can judge of the rest." "And your news of victories?" "Were two-thirds inventions.
As that last word fell so softly, yet with such tender suggestion, a sensation of sympathy passed between us for the first time; and I knew, from the purity of her look and the fearlessness of this covert appeal to one she could not address openly, that the doubts I had cherished of her up to this very moment were an outrage and that were it possible or seemly, I should be bowed down in the dust at her feet in reality, as I was in spirit.
Yes, from this tomb, where Peter’s ashes repose amid the veneration of the Christian world, a hidden power, a salutary energy, emanates which instils into the souls of the Chief Pastors the desire of great undertakings and of vast designs, inspiring that fearlessness and magnanimity which enable them to put down the impudent boldness of their assailants.
"There; now we're friends again, aren't we? Let me pass, please and good-night!" He moved to one side, blindly fighting with the impulse to throw his powerful arms round her and keep her there, or carry her across the bridge at his pleasure. But her light fearlessness mastered him. He let her go; he watched her figure on the steps, against the moonlight between the oaks overhead.
Either there are no courageous men in your county, or these panels are selected to avoid including them." Judge Smithers' face darkened. If he was a moral coward, he was at least a coward crouching behind a seeming of fearlessness. "Captain," he said, coolly, but with a dangerous hint of warning, "I don't see that your duties include contempt of court." "No!"
The missionary priest trod the war trails of the wilderness, with that faith and fearlessness which true soldiers of the cross should evince. In one of these heroic undertakings, Indians had captured him, and dragging him to their village under the shadow of the Rocky Mountains, they had nailed him in derision to a cross, and prepared to scalp him.
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