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Example sentences for "hardihood"

Lexicographically close words:
hardest; hardhearted; hardie; hardier; hardiest; hardily; hardiment; hardiness; hardinesse; hardlie
  1. If your respect aboard shall bear any proportion to your hardihood on shore, you may be accounted a model of civility!

  2. And, indeed, at first it did seem to me that I was acquiring a more normal kind of hardihood and working efficiency in this respect.

  3. He knew the proper names of many things of which the rest of us were ignorant, and, where his knowledge did not carry him, I was assured his conceit and hardihood did.

  4. But Lancelot answered soberly, "Certainly, sir, it is not for me; nor will I have the hardihood to set my hand upon it.

  5. Many great quests and perilous adventures have ye all taken and achieved, but this high quest he only shall attain who hath clean hands and a pure heart, and valor and hardihood beyond all other men.

  6. No man or woman has the hardihood to hint at the projected visit to the play.

  7. But the springing of his mine upon himself, seemed to have rent and shivered all his hardihood and self-reliance.

  8. Never in my life have I seen hardihood and unconcern like this mother's: she is an infernal woman.

  9. The brazen hardihood of the widow did not forsake her; with her head erect and thrown back, she assisted to take off the waistcoat, which impeded her movements.

  10. Such hardihood is truly infernal," said the doctor.

  11. The larvae of two species of moth (Galleria Cereana, and Mellonella) exhibit equal hardihood with equal impunity.

  12. Who then shall dare maintain, unless he has the hardihood to deny that God created them, that the study of insects and their ways is trifling or unprofitable?

  13. Is there not hardihood in the application?

  14. But from the graver historian, developing the historic significance of their determined resistance to the insolent claims of ecclesiastical authority, their desperate hardihood elicits a more fitting tribute.

  15. The Popish bishops of this country have the hardihood to say, that Popery is the friend and advocate of pure democracy, and that miserable tool of theirs, Brownson, says amen.

  16. It startled me sometimes, in my state of moral as well as bodily faint-heartedness, to observe the hardihood of her philosophy.

  17. Hardly, it was averred, within the memory of those who knew him now, had he the hardihood to show his full front to the world.

  18. Jimmy drew rein and slid to a stand, pricking his nettlesome "Calico" until it pranced to suit him.

  19. I don't care to waste any more words or time with you," and she turned haughtily toward the door.

  20. When this veracious history first displayed young Nelligan at a dinner-party, his manner was shy and constrained; his secluded, student-like habits had given him none of that hardihood so essential in society.

  21. I have heard that it remains in that mutilated state to the present day, no other person being found who had the hardihood to touch it.

  22. This was repeated for several successive nights, until the girl, from the very hardihood of terror, began to become so far familiarised to the spectre as to venture to address it.

  23. He was but little above the medium height, and rather slender in figure; but he was well and firmly built, and immediately impressed them with the idea of great hardihood and activity.

  24. The moment one suggested itself, he set about accomplishing it--and its hardihood and peril caused no hesitation.

  25. It is a trite remark, that people are inclined to accept a man's estimate of himself, and to put him in possession of that place, in their consideration, which he has the hardihood to claim.

  26. He hardly thought she would grant it; he felt almost breathless with his own hardihood when he saw her dismiss the girl and sit before him to hear what he might have to say.

  27. It was a selfish thought that prompted me to excuse my hardihood at the cost of your feelings.

  28. He laid aside his gun, took in his hand a wampum belt as a flag of truce, and walked forward to meet the savage multitude, attended by Boisrondet, another Frenchman, and a young Illinois who had the hardihood to accompany him.

  29. Prefixed to the Relation of 1671 is that monument of Jesuit hardihood and enterprise, the map of Lake Superior; a work of which, however, the exactness has been exaggerated, as compared with other Canadian maps of the day.

  30. Honor and hardihood go ill with a shaking hand or a blurred eye.

  31. One would think to hear you talk, my Lord Count, that your hardihood was greater than our own, but by our Lady of Rocamadour you will learn before nightfall that it is not so.

  32. After the Negro has proved his value and worth in all of these trying ways, when after this he asks for a full measure of equal rights, what American will have the heart or the hardihood to say him nay?

  33. For not yet had he summoned the hardihood to present himself alone at Florrie's home.

  34. Her own selection of San Juan was explicable; the thing to wonder at was what had given the hardihood to the first men to stop here and make houses and then homes?

  35. He adopted as his children all those who were slain with swords in their hands; hence the hardihood and brilliant examples of courage displayed by Northern warriors.

  36. In this way the advocates of amulets and charms have been enabled to silence people who have had the hardihood to throw odium on their superstitions.

  37. The acts of courage and hardihood which in a just cause might excite regard, when performed in an unrighteous cause, have no quality that can commend them to virtuous sympathy.

  38. He wrote with the hardihood of a pirate and the ardor of a patriot.


  39. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "hardihood" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    arrogance; assurance; audacity; backbone; contumely; defiance; disrespect; effrontery; energy; fortitude; grit; hardihood; hardiness; hubris; impertinence; impudence; insolence; nerve; pertinacity; potency; presumption; resolution; temerity; tenacity; hubris; impertinence; impudence; insolence; nerve; pertinacity; potency; presumption; resolution; temerity; tenacity