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"Sam Houston is not of that opinion, my fine fellows," answered the general, "and it is not his will to fight. Sam will not risk the fate of the republic in a single foolhardy battle. The broad woods of the Brazos shall do us good service. Though you are brave, and willing to risk your lives, it would be small benefit to the country if you lost them.
Paaker bowed his head; but the officer of the watch, secure in his position and dignity, and taking no notice of the glow of anger which flushed Paaker's face, began again: "When the hound lay on the ground, the foolhardy boy struck your dagger out of your hand." "And did this squabble lead to any disturbance?" asked Ameni earnestly. "No," replied the officer.
"I'm not saying this for Alf Henley's sake, for I hate him; he is the only man in this county that ever tricked me out of my rights, and I'll get even with 'im, sooner or later, but I'm thinking now about you. You may be foolhardy enough to try some slip-up game on him.
"To attack would be foolhardy, even if we hid ourselves among the trees," said Sanderson. "They'd drive us from cover sooner or later, and kill us." "One of us might go back for help," suggested the young pioneer. "I was thinking of that. But that would take time, and your father couldn't spare enough men to make it worth while.
If we are reckless and foolhardy we may injure some part of the delicate machinery from excessive exercise or strain. Play is the most natural thing in the world but we must use judgment in our play. A boy or girl who is not allowed to play or who is restrained by too anxious parents is unhappy indeed. Nearly all animals play. We know, for instance, that puppies, kittens, and lambs are playful.
"Either a Venetian mountebank," said Wildschloss, "or else there is only one man I know of either so foolhardy or so steady of head." "Be he who he may," said Ebbo, "he is the bravest man that ever I beheld. Who is he, Sir Kasimir?" "An eagle of higher flight than ours, no doubt," said Wildschloss.
If I could have done so with any remains of self-esteem, I would now have fled from my foolhardy enterprise. I had out-faced these men, I would continue to out-face them; come what might, I would stand by the word spoken. The sense of my own constancy somewhat uplifted my spirits, but not much.
There was but one opinion expressed when the captain finished his story, and that was that Rodney Gray was a foolhardy young fellow. From that time forward Rodney Gray had no reason to complain of being lonely.
He hated having to give up his own way; he hated being tied to a sofa and a bath-chair; he resented offers of help as if they had been actual insults, and hindered his recovery by foolhardy attempts at independence. "How would you like to be an invalid for life?" Mollie asked him severely after one of these outbursts.
As to our material prosperity, it consists of an inflated paper currency, an immense debt, a giddy, foolhardy spirit of speculation and stock-gambling, and a perfect furor of extravagance, which is driving everybody to live beyond his means, and casting contempt on the republican virtues of simplicity and economy.
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