temerarious

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Bernard Shaw finished editing and returned a collection of 100-odd Shaw sayings to Cyril Clemens, a temerarious admirer from Kirkwood, Mo. Shaw denied some of the items, okayed others, rewrote a few more.

From Time Magazine Archive

It might seem temerarious for an individual to buck the world's greatest oil companies, but not when the individual was Gulbenkian; he was an old hand at it.

From Time Magazine Archive

Primarily and supremely man is always the pioneer of life, adventuring onward into the unknown, alone with his own temerarious, dauntless soul.

From Fantasia of the Unconscious by Lawrence, D. H. (David Herbert)

They could never quite satisfy themselves whether they were speaking to the Pope or to the Devil, and when under the latter impression habitually emitted propositions which Gerbert justly stigmatised as rash, temerarious, and scandalous.

From The Twilight of the Gods, and Other Tales by Garnett, Richard

Recovering my self-possession, I asked if there were modes of transit by which I could safely visit this temerarious and remote people.

From The Coming Race by Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron