They had been so full of energy and humor and dare-deviltry. ❋ Balogh, Mary (1998)
To match this dare-deviltry, a saloon man in one frontier town, as a sign for his business, with psychological ingenuity painted across the broad front of his building in big black letters this challenge to God, man, and the devil: _The Road to Ruin_. ❋ Various (N/A)
You might go far in that quarter for anything of dare-deviltry so likeable. ❋ Neil Munro (N/A)
Dashing young cock sparrows would show off before their particular hen sparrows, and earn a cheap reputation for dare-deviltry by going within so many yards of Edwin's lair and then darting away. ❋ Armand [Illustrator] Both (1928)
A certain dare-deviltry went hand in hand with his work -- a calling in which a careless load dispatcher, a cut wire, or ❋ Edna Ferber (1926)
To fool away half an hour in dressing, knowing that it was very likely she might be summoning men to kill him -- to come down confident and unperturbed, possibly to meet his death -- was such a piece of dare-deviltry as won reluctant admiration, in spite of her detestation of him. ❋ William MacLeod Raine (1912)
She saw the smile upon his lips, and it was as wine to sick nerves; for even upon warlike Barsoom where all men are brave, woman reacts quickly to quiet indifference to danger -- to dare-deviltry that is without bombast. ❋ Edgar Rice Burroughs (1912)
She had always heard that cowboys were chivalrous, and brave, and fascinating in their picturesque dare-deviltry, but from the lone specimen which she had met she could not see that they possessed any of those qualities. ❋ B. M. Bower (1905)
Sheer dare-deviltry would arouse in them a responsiveness which had remained numb to the call of industry. ❋ Charles Neville Buck (1904)
So saying, he rolled his bright-blue eyes at me and Captain Watson with such utter good-nature and dare-deviltry as I have never seen equalled. ❋ Unknown (1900)
His cousin's influence had been strong enough to lead him into the affair of the letter; he was aghast to think how Rupert's reckless dare-deviltry had led on from stage to stage till the death of a king seemed but an incident in his schemes. ❋ Anthony Hope (1898)
On the third day, however, after a skirmish in which Dan had charged with a little more dare-deviltry than usual, the big Dillon ripped out an oath of protest. ❋ John Fox (1891)
He was a reckless young devil, attracted to our service more, it seemed to me, by a spirit of dare-deviltry than patriotism. ❋ Randall Parrish (1890)
And, carried away for the moment by Battersleigh's own dare-deviltry, as well as a man's admiration for pluck, they did rise and give him a cheer, even to Sam, who had hitherto been in line, but very silent. ❋ Emerson Hough (1890)
And though the fortune was lavishly spent, the courage sometimes betrayed into a rather theatrical dare-deviltry, and the good looks prone to deteriorate in style, there was always the social position left, and this was a matter of the deepest importance in ❋ Frances Hodgson Burnett (1886)
His rude guardian addressed himself to the modification of this facial expression; it had not enough of majesty in it, for instance, or of large dare-deviltry; but with care these could be made to come. ❋ George Washington Cable (1884)
If Bull Moore was above any kind of mix-up that concerned a girl, his dare-deviltry sometimes brought him to the edge of other kinds of trouble. ❋ Unknown (2010)
