braving

He had a confounded assurance, the devil's own cheek, familiar with danger, and braving it.

Perhaps you think that I am braving you in what I am saying now, as in what I said before about the tears and prayers.

His faithful Duke was with him, braving a temperature of -32°.

He needs me, he loves me, he is braving the wrath of the world and of heaven for my sake.

What object can he possibly have in braving three times his force in a gale like this?

“Well, what will you do,” Evelyn challenged, with an heroic air of braving the worst.

"Certainly not," said Mr. Chalk, braving her, although his voice trembled.

It was, she considered, an occasion for braving the doctor's interdict.

Many an old timer had told him of braving them upon sea and land.

But a few years back it was braving death to attempt to remove them.