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"If we had but a few of their archers here," Jethro said, "the Egyptian king would not be so overbold in venturing so near. It is wonderful how strongly they shoot. Their arrows have fully double the range of ours, and their power is sufficient to carry them through the strongest shields, even when strengthened with metal.
But when she had paid that tribute to her physical weakness she became overbold and halted for a moment at least six feet from this prostrate monster with her white skirts gathered in her hand, ready for flight. But neither sound nor motion came from the bush.
Therefore, it is by temporal and carnal means that I will use my power to tame your overbold spirit, and to chasten that headstrong and violent humor which has caused such scandal in your dealings with our Abbey.
She felt irresponsive and feared she should pass with this easy cosmopolite for a stiff, scared, English girl, which was not the type she aimed at; but wasn't even ocular commerce overbold so long as she hadn't a sign from Nick?
Much the same view was held by the ancient Greeks and in a less acute form by the Jews and Romans. Swinburne's line Glory to man in the highest, for man is the master of things is overbold for professing Christians but it expresses both the modern scientific sentiment and the ancient Hellenic sentiment.
I know it is overbold to venture into your presence just now, when you have so much else to think of; but I saw no other way of saving my brother's life, which is in peril." At this Berenike seemed surprised.
Without moving from where he stood, Milo pivoted around, the heavy handspike six feet of true ash rigid as a bar of iron, took the overbold pirate at the base of the skull and spilled his brains into the breach he had made.
She had come to believe, indeed, almost arrogantly in her own malleability and endurance; she had done so much with herself that she had come to think that there was nothing which she could not do; like swimmers, overbold, who reckon upon their strength and their power to hoard it, forgetting the ever-changing moods of their adversary, the sea. And d'Esquerre was a man to reckon with.
She was herself an old woman, grown grey in the service of Vesta. She said that Fabia had been most fortunate to remain in the Temple service so long as she had and not be harassed by more than one impious and overbold suitor. The only thing to do was to be careful and avoid anything that would give false appearances.
I do not censure her behavior, though doubtless there were ladies among the photographed who thought it overbold; if the reader had been young and blond and svelte, in a Parisian gown and hat, with narrow russet shoes, not too high-heeled for good taste, I do not believe he would have been any better; or, if he would, I should not have liked him so well.
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