overboldness

Example Sentences

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They “advised their captain, through his overboldness, not to leave their widows and fatherless children to give him bitter curses.”

From The Sea: Its Stirring Story of Adventure, Peril, & Heroism. Volume 3 by Whymper, Frederick

The fair girl knitted her brows in a frown at his overboldness.

From The Proud Prince by McCarthy, Justin H. (Justin Huntly)

His large nature, impetuously reacting from the asceticism to which he had been bred, turned to excess and overboldness in action, and an occasional coarseness of phrasing in his poems.

From Library of the World's Best literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 12 by Various

But is there any potion which might serve as a test of overboldness and excessive and indiscreet boasting?

From Laws by Jowett, Benjamin

J. Coming now to the point of my story, I have to relate how his overboldness was proved by his death.

From The Tales Of The Heptameron, Vol. II. (of V.) by Saintsbury, George