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His latest role is the all-dangling, all-daring escapologist Harry Houdini.
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These they mingled with irrational sense and all-daring love according to necessary laws and so framed man.
Timaeus 2006
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I have no other altar to fly to, but thy knee, nor is any friend near me, [70] but thou hearest the cruel and all-daring conduct of Agamemnon.
The Tragedies of Euripides, Volume I. 480? BC-406 BC Euripides
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Honor to the all-daring self-denial, which brought to the forlorn bachelor of the west, a companion in his labors, a solace in his afflictions, and a mother to his children!
Western Characters or Types of Border Life in the Western States J. L. McConnel
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He was, it seemed, a man of simple character and few ideas, but she knew that he had nerve and vigor, and, after all, the western Dominion is the land of strenuous, all-daring, simple men.
The Gold Trail Harold Bindloss 1905
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A more vexatious incident now befell the all-daring, all-enduring Diderot, than either the decree of the Council or the schism of the heresiarch at Montmorency.
Diderot and the Encyclopaedists Morley, John, 1838-1923 1905
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For three years I courted her, steadfastly, but in a curiously capricious and inconsistent way, with all the changes of an all-daring and naught-fearing devotion, wildly-blazing happiness, sudden shyness and trembling shrinking, violent dismay, self-reproach, deep self-contempt - all this being caused by the confusion and the strife in the intimate household of my soul.
The Bride of Dreams Frederik van Eeden 1896
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A more vexatious incident now befell the all-daring, all-enduring
Diderot and the Encyclopædists (Vol 1 of 2) John Morley 1880
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A shrill feminine chorus assail her with praises, struck here and there with a metallic ring of envy; a dozen all-daring cavaliers, made reckless by her grace and beauty, clamor for her hand in the next waltz.
Cressy Bret Harte 1869
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It is possible that a sympathetic student may get closer to the all-embracing and all-daring genius of the magician through these drawings than if he had before him an elaborate work in fresco or in oils.
Renaissance in Italy Volume 3 The Fine Arts John Addington Symonds 1866
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