How To Use Hardihood In A Sentence
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The big tree, with all the seeming of hardihood, promising to stand for centuries to come, had suffered from a hidden decay.
Chapter VII
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Few nations have ever existed, who have evinced more indomitable courage or hardihood, or shown more devotion to the spirit of independence than the Iroquois.
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Only Mrs Norton, having deposited her grey satin magnificence upon the sofa, protested mutely against what she considered a tendency to 'rowdyism' in her hostess; flirted -- intellectually -- with any one who had the hardihood to sit near her; and on the stroke of ten rose with a suppressed yawn and a transparently insincere little speech about an enjoyable evening.
The Great Amulet
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He could not easily have found an excuse for this, however, and he was unwilling to give the haughty Donnerhugel the least suspicion that he was inferior in hardihood, or in the power of enduring fatigue, to any of the tall mountaineers, whose companion he chanced to be for the present.
Anne of Geierstein
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Similarly, this finding leaves open the possibility that female characters expressed heroism in ways not entailing physical hardihood or risk.
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And be it known to you, that no man there was of such hardihood but his flesh trembled: and it was no wonder, for never was so great an enterprise undertaken by any people since the creation of the world.
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“Give them ten guilders for ten minutes more,” said the culprit, who, like most in his situation, mixed with his hardihood a desire of procrastinating his fate, “I tell thee it shall avail thee much.”
Quentin Durward
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There is nothing that will spread abroad anything, true or false, like the flames of martyrdom, because if the people whom you martyrize have the hardihood to stand the punishment that you impose, you only turn society against the truth and make their martyrdom the very instrument of error.
The Proper Limitations of State Interference
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He delighted in every kind of hardihood; and, in his contempt for effeminacy, once said to his mother:
Montcalm and Wolfe
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To this callosity of nature it was due that William Castle, a foreign denizen of Bristol who had the hardihood to incur the marital tie there, was called upon, as related elsewhere, to serve at sea in the very heyday of his honeymoon.
The Press-Gang Afloat and Ashore
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As the child grew more accustomed to Miss Asphyxia, while her hatred of her increased, somewhat of that native hardihood which had characterized her happier days returned; and she began to use all the subtlety and secretiveness which belonged to her feminine nature in contriving how not to do the will of her tyrant, and yet not to seem designedly to oppose.
Oldtown Folks
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Americanism means the virtues of courage, honor, justice, truth, sincerity and hardihood - the virtues that made America.
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Jack had the hardihood to deny what he has done.
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Aspidistra, araucaria, Pandanus and the rubber plant are exceptions; two of them being remarkable for their hardihood under neglect and ignorance.
Gardening Indoors and Under Glass A Practical Guide to the Planting, Care and Propagation of House Plants, and to the Construction and Management of Hotbed, Coldframe and Small Greenhouse
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When we consider that he was even then courting Angelina, his hardihood is a little surprising.
The Grimke Sisters
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And she will do it, she has the hardihood and the black ingratitude.
A River So Long
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Careless of his own life and skin, nevertheless David Grief was possessed of no false hardihood.
THE DEVILS OF FUATINO
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If that were true the murderer must have dropped some part of his dress, presumably his overcoat, in his flight, and must have had the hardihood to return and to carry it away at the instant when the son was kneeling with his back turned not a dozen paces off.
Sex Dungeon for Sale!
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He had the hardihood to deny the fact.
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He was not only a very dexterous thief, but was notorious for his boldness and hardihood, and for the number of his previous convictions.
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He had the hardihood to deny the fact.
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Had we lived, I should have a tale to tell of the hardihood, endurance and courage of my companions which would have stirred the heart of every Englishman," Scott wrote in his diary, words that have become a touchstone for generations of Brits.
Polar Exploration for Armchair Travelers
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He was impressed by the extraordinary hardihood and patience with which these men bear their wounds.
Times, Sunday Times
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Especially when I read of the adventures of Russian and Polish exiles in Siberia -- men of aristocratic lineage wandering amid snow and arctic cold, sleeping on rocks or in hollow trees, and holding their own, empty-handed, against hunger and frost and their fiercer brute embodiments do I recognize a hardihood and a ferity whose wet-nurse, ages back, may well have been this gray slut of the woods.
Winter Sunshine