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  • His latest role is the all-dangling, all-daring escapologist Harry Houdini.

    Row Three » A Good Read: Recent Guy Pearce Interview - Where Cinema is more than just $100 Million productions 2008

  • These they mingled with irrational sense and all-daring love according to necessary laws and so framed man.

    Timaeus 2006

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • A more vexatious incident now befell the all-daring, all-enduring

    Diderot and the Encyclopædists (Vol 1 of 2) John Morley 1880

  • 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

  • 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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