daredevilry
Example Sentences
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As symbols go, Niagara Falls offers plenty: a source of power, daredevilry, a bucolic vacation.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 14, 2018
But the potential price of such daredevilry was brought home in August last year, at another popular site near Chamonix – the Couloir Ensa, where Polli was keen to try out a new corkscrew manoeuvre.
From The Guardian ● Oct. 23, 2017
If the city has traditionally been knocked for anything, it’s that very safeness; a detour here ranks as low on the daredevilry scale as those T-bills.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 24, 2016
And now he has set his sights on a new deed of daredevilry — walking the 1,800 feet across the gorge of Niagara Falls while balancing on a two-inch-diameter steel cable.
From New York Times ● Aug. 5, 2011
As he appears in the Company's records, he showed none of the picturesque daredevilry that distinguished many of the sea rovers whose names are less known.
From The Pirates of Malabar, and an Englishwoman in India Two Hundred Years Ago by J. (John) Biddulph
