"Overbold" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... going to say seems to me overbold, yet I do not feel it in my heart to give up hope altogether. Do not be angry with me; God is merciful, and the human soul is so athirst for happiness that it would fain leave a door open for it to enter. If you ask me again in half a year, a year, or any time ...
— Without Dogma • Henryk Sienkiewicz
... O thrice-desired, and my desire hath flown away as a dream. Nay, widowed is Cytherea, and idle are the Loves along the halls! With thee has the girdle of my beauty perished. For why, ah overbold, didst thou follow the chase, and being so fair, why wert thou thus overhardy ...
— Theocritus, Bion and Moschus rendered into English Prose • Andrew Lang
... was overbold, God made her dreams too pure to break, She sees the angels in the air Fly to and ...
— Helen of Troy and Other Poems • Sara Teasdale
... said spring into a 'paying concern' at once, thereby causing much rejoicing among the Semites. The 'mob' might certainly decline to imitate the Snob-world,— but, considering the recent riotous outbreak, it might be as well that the overbold and unwashen populace should be awed by the panoply and glory of earthly Majesty passing by in ...
— Temporal Power • Marie Corelli
... art overbold of speech," said Telemachus; then turning to Antinous he added: "I thank thee for thy fatherly care, but we are not so poor that we need to drive the stranger from our doors—heaven forbid! Give him something; 'tis I that bid thee: but thou art ever ...
— Stories from the Odyssey • H. L. Havell
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