bold'un

Updated: June 20, 2025

"Ay, he's a bold'un in a calm," said a second. "He's a Jonah, that has slipp'd into the cabin windows!" cried a third; "and, while he stays in the 'Dolphin, luck will keep upon our weather-beam" "Into the sea with him! overboard with the upstart! into the sea with him! where he'll find that a bolder and a better man has gone before him!" shouted a dozen at once; some of whom immediately gave very unequivocal demonstrations of an intention to put their threat in execution.

James Fenimore Cooper - The Red Rover