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temerity
1. Maggie flips up the counter top, hits the optic at the bottom of one of the bottles of Scotch three times and glares at a man who has the temerity to ask for three pints of bitter
2. I had the temerity to ask the operator whether he was checking nocturnal emissions
3. Having read about him, but admittedly having read none of his writings, I find within myself the temerity to ask: Just what in the world is gonzo journalism?
4. There were fugitive Ashantis on the coast, however, who were not afraid to speak, and native traders who visited Kumassi with goods, and sometimes forfeited their lives for their temerity, have brought reports from time to time, of the strange and bloody doings of Prempeh & Co
5. In one place near a narrow streamlet were nests of the passerine weaver birds, some hanging from fine branches along which even the bamboo snake would not have the temerity to crawl in search of the luscious eggs
6. The unbidden thought surprised him with its temerity; he thought he had cast out the memory of that boy long ago, but it seemed that it had lingered in his very soul for all those many years
7. Henry captured one of their ambassadors in the capital of the Conchuco, and he had the temerity to threaten us with destruction if we did not surrender
8. He would challenge any birds that we encountered, shriek alarm whenever he spotted a raptor, and hurl imprecations in Otomi at anyone who had the temerity to cross our path
9. “One wonders at the temerity of landing on an island that is clearly inhabited and claiming it
10. Finally Colon had the temerity to ask if the Khakhan would consider sending a present to his sovereigns
11. He added that the papa’s secretary had the temerity to come to him and ask why he was upset
12. To compare even more the life of Melbourne past to that of the United States West, the driver-guide related the story that during the 1880’s, years of daring and temerity in that capital of the state of Victoria, they hung a famous man whom some people
13. Thus you have the temerity to approach one such as me with such a cavalier attitude
14. stand by temerity and it became mandatory for him to
15. Judas did not think Nathaniel took his apostleship sufficiently seriously and once had the temerity to go secretly to Jesus and lodge complaint against him
16. I cringed at the black look on his face at my temerity
17. presence neither with temerity nor fear, but in the sure
18. But José Arcadio Segundo, in an unforeseen burst of temerity, stubbornly kept on with the project
19. With the fierce temerity with which José Arcadio Buendía had crossed the mountains to found Macondo, with the blind pride with which Colonel Aureliano Buendía had undertaken his fruitless wars, with the mad tenacity with which Úrsula watched over the survival of the line, Aureliano Segundo looked for Fernanda, without a single moment of respite
20. I ran my hands through her thick black hair and wondered if I had the temerity to turn away from her
21. Hence the temerity to write about
22. However everyone’s afraid of being ridiculed if they have the temerity to point out publicly that the emperor is stark naked
23. Williams remembered his further commission from Group Captain Bowman, and approached Bridges with some temerity and embarrassment
24. Ryan, they didn’t have the temerity to attempt anything
25. Dominique’s happiness was like a gift she would never have had the temerity to wish for
26. Amazed at his temerity in bearding Dorgan in his very den, I could do nothing but accompany him, though I much feared it was almost like inviting homicide
27. They became robber barons… kings of their respective territories, in which they only killed, and used, and traveled through… barons of their huge landed estates… becoming incensed and outraged that any baron or king, or chief, or tribe of robbers… should have the audacity, and the temerity as to even live near them, and not live in constant fear of being attacked
28. Supplicants were punished, or ostracized for the temerity of even asking for such a sacred, exclusive privilege
29. � From where would a child derive such unmitigated temerity to rebel?� The child rebels and thus rejects the nearly sacred power of the child's universe
30. least amount of work, the mediocre will have the temerity to call you
31. For a moment it seemed like he was about to pull way, but the pleasure of her temerity was perhaps too absolute to decline, for in the next his hands were running through her hair, coaxing her deeper
32. He dare not say it has reference to their spirits, for he holds that this perishing means torment to the lost, and he would not have the temerity to say “perish meant torment to the wicked and joy to the saint
33. cation of Spectrum by Defence, he had the temerity to mislead the Prime Minister
34. Let the traitor pay with his life for the temerity of his wanton wishes, and let the world know (if haply it shall ever come to know) that Camilla not only preserved her
35. The first thing he did was to turn round in the cage in which he lay, and protrude his claws, and stretch himself thoroughly; he next opened his mouth, and yawned very leisurely, and with near two palms' length of tongue that he had thrust forth, he licked the dust out of his eyes and washed his face; having done this, he put his head out of the cage and looked all round with eyes like glowing coals, a spectacle and demeanour to strike terror into temerity itself
36. I, then, as it has fallen to my lot to be a member of knight-errantry, cannot avoid attempting all that to me seems to come within the sphere of my duties; thus it was my bounden duty to attack those lions that I just now attacked, although I knew it to be the height of rashness; for I know well what valour is, that it is a virtue that occupies a place between two vicious extremes, cowardice and temerity; but it will be a lesser evil for him who is valiant to rise till he reaches the point of rashness, than to sink until he reaches the point of cowardice; for, as it is easier for the prodigal than for the miser to become generous, so it is easier for a rash man to prove truly valiant than for a coward to rise to true valour; and believe me, Senor Don Diego, in attempting adventures it is better to lose by a card too many than by a card too few; for to hear it said, 'such a knight is rash and daring,' sounds better than 'such a knight is timid and cowardly
37. The letter that Haig has drafted reflects that temerity
38. The boys deserted their sports, and walking fearlessly among their fathers, looked up in curious admiration, as they heard the brief exclamations of wonder they so freely expressed the temerity of their hated foe
39. that the white men were much favored by their position, or the Delaware would soon have outstripped all his companions, and fallen a victim to his own temerity
40. A crowd gathered and the Socialists held a meeting, two speeches being delivered before the crowd recovered from their surprise at the temerity of these other Britishers who apparently had not sense enough to understand that they had been finally defeated and obliterated last Tuesday evening: and when the cyclist with the bandaged head got up on the hillock some of the crowd actually joined in the hand-clapping with which the Socialists greeted him
41. “No,” she said, marvelling at her own temerity
42. But although Alpatych, frightened at his own temerity in avoiding the stroke, came up to the prince, bowing his bald head resignedly before him, or perhaps for that very reason, the prince, though he continued to shout: ‘Blackgaurds!
43. Cursing his temerity, his heart sinking at the thought of finding himself at any moment face to face with the Emperor and being put to shame and arrested in his presence, fully alive now to the impropriety of his conduct and repenting of it, Rostov, with downcast eyes, was making his way out of the house through the brilliant suite when a familiar voice called him and a hand detained him
44. "His impassive temerity astounds me
45. A man-at-arms with more presence of mind than his fellows set his horse laboring up the slope at these peasants who had the temerity to throw things at their betters
46. Florentino Ariza, on the other hand, faced the insidious snares of old age with savage temerity, even though he knew that his peculiar fate had been to look like an old man from the time he was a boy
47. "You are not here by the order of Than Kosis," cried the one who had first addressed me, "and not only shall you not enter the apartments of the Princess of Helium but you shall go back to Than Kosis under guard to explain this unwarranted temerity
48. Terror seized me, a horror of my temerity
49. But although Alpátych, frightened at his own temerity in avoiding the stroke, came up to the prince, bowing his bald head resignedly before him, or perhaps for that very reason, the prince, though he continued to shout: “Blackguards!
50. Cursing his temerity, his heart sinking at the thought of finding himself at any moment face to face with the Emperor and being put to shame and arrested in his presence, fully alive now to the impropriety of his conduct and repenting of it, Rostóv, with downcast eyes, was making his way out of the house through the brilliant suite when a familiar voice called him and a hand detained him
