overboldness
Example Sentences
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Did you know with what joy I turned my back on the Court of Pesaro—" "Aye," he broke in mockingly, "when Giovanni Sforza threatened to have you hanged for the overboldness of your tongue.
From The Shame of Motley: being the memoir of certain transactions in the life of Lazzaro Biancomonte, of Biancomonte, sometime fool of the court of Pesaro by Sabatini, Rafael
The fair girl knitted her brows in a frown at his overboldness.
From The Proud Prince by McCarthy, Justin H. (Justin Huntly)
J. Coming now to the point of my story, I have to relate how his overboldness was proved by his death.
From The Tales Of The Heptameron, Vol. II. (of V.) by Saintsbury, George
Thirdly come one or two significant admissions of overboldness in matters of criticism, as where he retracts his censure of Raphael's Parnassus in Letter XXXIII.
From Travels through France and Italy by Smollett, T. (Tobias)
But is there any potion which might serve as a test of overboldness and excessive and indiscreet boasting?
From Laws by Jowett, Benjamin
