"Embolden" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... kind to give me that assurance," he returned, "and you embolden me to crave another favor. May I have your permission to call ...
— Mona • Mrs. Georgie Sheldon
... Lincoln wanted to agree with Chase and Blair. He reasoned that if the fort was given up, the necessity under which it was done would not be fully understood; that by many it would be construed as part of a voluntary policy, that at home it would discourage the friends of the Union, embolden its adversaries, and go far to insure to ...
— Lincoln • Nathaniel Wright Stephenson
... Maidens Hither, O fragrant of Tmolus the Golden, Come with the voice of timbrel and drum; Let the cry of your joyance uplift and embolden The God of the joy-cry; O Bacchanals, come! With pealing of pipes and with Phrygian clamour, On, where the vision of holiness thrills, And the music climbs and the maddening glamour, With the wild White Maids, to the hills, to the hills! Oh, then, ...
— Hippolytus/The Bacchae • Euripides
... another turn around Washington Square, trying to embolden ourself enough to go in and tell the consul all this. And then our heart failed us. We decided to write a piece for the paper about it, and if the consul ever sees it he will be generous and understand. He will know why, behind the humble facade of his consulate on Washington Square, ...
— Mince Pie • Christopher Darlington Morley
... throwing me into a perfect fever of excitement—into an absolute delirium of love-served rather to embolden than to disconcert me. In the mad intensity of my devotion, I forgot everything but the presence and the majestic loveliness of the vision which confronted my gaze. Watching my opportunity, when I thought the audience were fully ...
— The Works of Edgar Allan Poe - Volume 3 (of 5) of the Raven Edition • Edgar Allan Poe
... at the unlucky charioteer, though in fact they were as much in fault as he, only more fortunate. I suspected before that this trotting down zig-zags was not the thing, and now I know it, and shall remember it, at least for one week. And I have given this tedious detail to urge and embolden others to remonstrate against it. The vice is universal—at least it was just as bad at Mount Cenis as here, and here were four carriages all going at the same reckless pace. The truth is, it is not safe to trot down such ...
— Glances at Europe - In a Series of Letters from Great Britain, France, Italy, - Switzerland, &c. During the Summer of 1851. • Horace Greeley
... any good with some people. Instead of softening and conciliating, they but embolden and harden them. Of that number ...
— Shirley • Charlotte Bronte
... restoration of his sister; each so known a lover of the other, that the world is more ready to attribute her malady to his misfortune and danger, than to any other cause! But how early days are these, on which my love and my compassion for persons so meritorious, embolden me ...
— The History of Sir Charles Grandison, Volume 4 (of 7) • Samuel Richardson
... this was a mischievous smile, which did not embolden further charges. But whether boldly or not, Hazel went on with a fair show at least ...
— Wych Hazel • Susan and Anna Warner
... Antiochus, and, with a soul Embolden'd with the glory of her praise, Think death no ...
— Pericles Prince of Tyre • William Shakespeare [Clark edition] |
