"Fearless" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... dictatorial. Her sternly tranquil manner, her clear and earnest brow, showed plainly that she had formed an heroic determination. She was no longer the young girl, timidly praying for her lover; she was the fearless woman, determined to defend him, or die for him. The king read this in her countenance, it was plainly indicated in her royal bearing; and with the reverence and consideration which great spirits ever accord to misfortune, he did homage to this woman toward whom he was ...
— Berlin and Sans-Souci • Louise Muhlbach
... your money by the dose you have taken Exception of opium, wine, specifics, and anaesthetics Express your opinions freely; defend them rarely Extra price for gilding his rich patients' pills Extravagance in remedies and trust in remedies False appetite in many intelligences Fearless in the face of authority Find most of the old beliefs alive amongst us to-day Flippant loquacity of half knowledge Follies and inanities, imposing on the credulous Futility of attempting to silence this asserted ...
— Widger's Quotations from the Works of Oliver W. Holmes, Sr. • David Widger
... of his public career. He was a man of liberal culture, of considerable erudition in the law, of high literary ability, and he had attained an enviable social eminence. Of large physical frame and strength, gifted with a fine presence and a sonorous voice, fearless and earnest in his opposition to slavery, Charles Sumner was one of the favorite orators of the early declamatory ...
— Abraham Lincoln, A History, Volume 2 • John George Nicolay and John Hay
... had fallen upon his head; whether they had taken their supper, and were ready to go to sleep. Thor answered that they were just going to sleep. Then they went under another oak. But the truth must be told, that there was no fearless sleeping. About midnight Thor heard that Skrymer was snoring and sleeping so fast that it thundered in the wood. He arose and went over to him, clutched the hammer tight and hard, and gave him a blow in the middle of the crown, so that he knew that the head of the hammer sank deep into his head. ...
— The Younger Edda - Also called Snorre's Edda, or The Prose Edda • Snorre
... the ground its sparkling lustre streamed; Accoutred thus in manly guise, no eye However piercing could her sex descry; Now, like a lion, from the fort she bends, And 'midst the foe impetuously descends; Fearless of soul, demands with haughty tone, The bravest chief, for war-like valour known, To try the chance of fight. In shining arms, Again Sohrab the glow of battle warms; With scornful smiles, "Another deer!" he cries, ...
— Persian Literature, Volume 1,Comprising The Shah Nameh, The - Rubaiyat, The Divan, and The Gulistan • Anonymous
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