edacious
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Thus Time rolls on in its many-colored manner, edacious and feracious.
From History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 03 by Thomas Carlyle
So busy has perverse Destiny been on it; perverse Destiny, edacious Chance;—and the Dryasdusts, too, and Nightmares, in Prussia as elsewhere, we know how strong they are!
From History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 11 by Thomas Carlyle
Second-hand Jerry did not say these things to our young philosopher; for had he done so, Khalid, now become edacious, would not have experienced those dyspeptic pangs which almost crushed the soul-fetus in him.
From The Book of Khalid by Ameen Fares Rihani
After this Hugo, not contented with the tragedy of the edacious murderer, gives us seven pages of his favourite rhetoric in saccadé paragraphs on the general question.
From A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century by George Saintsbury
These words Hyndford listened to with an edacious solid countenance, and greedily took them down.
From History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 13 by Thomas Carlyle