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  • Adding to my trepidation is this primary poll from Survey USA, which confirms Roulstone's campaign doesn't yet have the profile it needs. Sound Politics: Roulstone Update
  • On June 9, the intrepid Curry will settle in behind the big desk of NBC's top-rated morning show, where she'll succeed Meredith Vieira as Matt Lauer's coanchor. The Biz: Ann Curry's New Today Role
  • Xmas hurtles at us like a skateboarding troll trundling downhill - it's big, impressive, but to be viewed with a certain trepidation by those in its path. Toys R Us - Military Sword & Sorcery is coming ("#### Harry Potter! Daddy, where's my axe?")
  • Thanks for your kind words about the articles, but why did you feel fear and trepidation?
  • Inspired by the intrepid babushka, I overcame the inbred fear of Russian salesmen and requested that my order be warmed as well.
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  • I have to say I know we shared the same trepidation about being mums to boys, but mine arrived on Monday morning and we've never been happier in the 'shwa. High-Low
  • Maybe a councillor could take up my challenge with one of your intrepid reporters too.
  • Soon enough, our intrepid reporter hero realizes that, due to some nuclear explosion experimentation, the earth has been thrust out of its orbit and is now spiralling towards the sun.
  • Once or twice a day the intrepid fisherman ‘runs’ his trot line meaning he gets in a boat and checks the hook dangling beneath each float and if necessary sticks a fresh perch on it for bait.
  • Book into first or second-class air-conditioned carriages unless you are feeling intrepid. Times, Sunday Times
  • Nothing was different except for a large mousehole shape gap in the bottom of the awning where the intrepid explorer had made his escape.
  • World-renowned technical artist David Kimble was hired to chronicle development of both the Intrepid racecar and its mighty 5.9L engine, for a series of cutaway illustrations.
  • Japanese eat fugu without much fear or trepidation because of the confidence they have in licensed chefs.
  • He had passed an unsettled life in continued exile up to his eightieth year; having been harassed with many contumelies and injuries, he had endured with difficulty a miserable and anxious existence, in continual trepidation; famine had driven him out of the land whither he had gone, by the command and under the auspices of God, into Egypt. Commentary on Genesis - Volume 1
  • An intrepid group are set to take to the highways and byways of the county as part of a fundraising drive for cancer research.
  • Taken from a live report from Leeds, the picture shows the intrepid anchorwoman broadcasting in the light of a full moon.
  • Briars thrown in his Way, and with Intrepidity if need requires, even imbrue his Hands in his opposers Blood, and make a Dagger with Blindfolded Eyes, force John Adams diary 13, 1 March - 31 December 1766, March 1767
  • The league's slow-play may be a strategy to show a lack of trepidation about an uncapped -- and unfloored -- 2010. Andrew Brandt: The NFL Changing Before Our Eyes?
  • Like all bathroom scales, ours are trod with hope and trepidation.
  • An intrepid woman at age 17 she bicycled from Los Angeles to New York, Orkin had gone to Italy on her own after completing a Life magazine photo assignment in Israel. David Schonauer: How One Classic Photo Told the Truth While Fudging Reality
  • _ I muft here, however, repeat, that no one is more entirelv fi - tisiied than myfelf of the great abihties, perfevcrance, an J i,;. trepidity, with which the officers who were fent on this deai. n tion, attempted to profecute their difcoveries; but I conceive from tlie arguments and faaawJiich will follow, that tluy wa 'ftoppcd. Miscellanies [microform]
  • The posthumous publication of his diaries is awaited with trepidation by some and eager anticipation by those who knew him best. Times, Sunday Times
  • Selling a property in this country can be a fraught business, full of fear and trepidation and attended by frustration and delay at every point.
  • We view so called elective ventilation of patients who might become potential organ donors with some trepidation.
  • As a pamphlet account of his execution published shortly after his death put it, Turpin ‘went off this stage with as much intrepidity and unconcern, as if he had been taking horse to go on a journey’.
  • Ne Regem metueret, edamfi forte auftemm òbver (umg eltèt vulhifli) fed animose & intrepide exponeret, qyod in mandads Kabéret. x f. Lux in tenebris, hoc est prophetiæ donum quô Deus Ecclesiam Evangelicam, in regno Bohemiæ ...
  • The intrepid traveller also draws inspiration from the Tibetans themselves.
  • Yet, our intrepid movie mockers come up with classic lines, time and time again.
  • We also have associate members who are not yet of retirement age but are approaching it with some trepidation.
  • It sounds like a plot lifted from a John LeCarre novel, but the real-life poisoning of Alexander Litvinenko, ex-FSB (morphed out of the old KGB) agent and vocal critic of the Putin administration, is a real-life thriller waiting to be solved by an intrepid counterspy, or something or other. Writer Unboxed » Blog Archive » Linktopia: International Man of Mystery Edition
  • Peter was a voracious reader, a tireless networker, intrepid and fearless at approaching the biggest names, and dogged in working with authors to finish their manuscripts.
  • On the 100th anniversary of the fall, a memorial service will commemorate the lives of the four intrepid climbers who lost their lives on The Pinnacle.
  • So, it was with some trepidation that I offered to expose myself to a department of the snotty-nosed blighters little darlings, even with pay.
  • Who are they, these intrepid explorers? Times, Sunday Times
  • I think after the England game we had gone into the match against Italy with a little trepidation.
  • It made him feel intrepid - something to tell Stephanie about. Somewhere East of Life
  • Yet there is a hint of trepidation as he voices his fears that his team might struggle to get out of their squandering habits.
  • Well, they are thinking about the next few weeks with a little more trepidation than they did before. Times, Sunday Times
  • With all the senses tingling, you can hear the hippos at the watering hole; the croak of the bullfrogs; smell the dank scent of the cooling earth and anticipate, with trepidation, a prowling lioness.
  • There are several occasions when the intrepid adventurer looks destined to fail as a result of failing health or a lack of cash, but owing to his unnerving determination he always manages to win through.
  • Later, the Balkans provided a crisis of moral weight sufficient to rival those earlier times - especially for those writers and journalists, mostly on the center-left, who had the courage and intrepidity to go there.
  • It was positively with trepidation that he presented himself before her very soon after his arrival; and an undeniable blush "mantled" his cheek -- if a blush can be said with any propriety to mantle the male cheek --- when he marched into the drawing-room, where she was doing a dainty bit of embroidery, and with much simplicity and directness said, "You said I might come, you know, and I have come; and I begged of Ethel to come too, but she could not leave my aunt," before he had so much as shaken hands. Lippincott's Magazine, August, 1885
  • If you're feeling intrepid, the rugged interior also offers challenging hikes and cycling. Times, Sunday Times
  • There are several voicesets to choose from for your intrepid band of adventurers.
  • In all, the intrepid party of four men and two women will be swimming about 10 miles, walking and camping in between.
  • England teams used to come here with fear and trepidation and little expectation. Times, Sunday Times
  • The intrepid cast are undaunted by the difficulties of the shoot.
  • But it's so crowded, loud and smoky that even the intrepid Milica gasps for air, and we reascend the stairs to lounge against the bannister near the entrance.
  • So as an intrepid explorer once told me, all you really need is a credit card and a toothbrush. The Sun
  • We await your performance with interest and not a little trepidation.
  • Look around and find a place to go chat with some other intrepid young adventurers.
  • Before reaching the entry point, the intrepid aquanaut, pink with exertion, has to pick his way delicately through a crowd of anglers armed with filleting knives before he can take an elegant step into the water.
  • Everywhere you look, this concept inspires admiration and trepidation in almost equal measure.
  • We Memphians call our intrepid little corner of Tennessee "Roundtown," and it isn't because we're officially the most obese city in the nation. Jim Derych: Freshman Mistakes
  • The sterling barkeep takes his large key over to the door and locks it, shooting the bolts home with a quiet trepidation.
  • Many foreign businesses greeted the passage two years ago of China's first antimonopoly law with trepidation. Life After China's Antimonopoly Law
  • They approached this game with some trepidation following a 6-1 mauling at the hands of the same opposition only three weeks earlier.
  • Even the NFL doesn't allow this much piling on and yet our hero, the intrepid nice guy Michael, is just supposed to take life's sucker punches like a cold-cocked good sport.
  • It still produced that certain amount of trepidation and fear in the pit of her stomach.
  • Aficionados all share a certain fondness for the transporter, the device that allowed the intrepid crew of the Enterprise to plunk down on various planets without benefit of spacecraft.
  • Cazaril approached his first assigned duty, quietly investigating the probity of the provincial justiciar, with trepidation. THE CURSE OF CHALION
  • Yet again, he has a dog's intrepidity, knows no fear, is single-purposed, not to be called off, longanimous. The Life and Death of Richard Yea-and-Nay
  • Do you think this theatre will still be here in another hundred years, asks our intrepid reporter?
  • A similar danger recalled the intrepid prince to the defence of the front; and, as he galloped through the columns, the centre of the left was attacked, and almost overpowered by the furious charge of the The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
  • I was worried I was going to spend the day faffing and not get anything done, but I picked up the phone and with some trepidation phoned my first choice farm.
  • Intrepid journalist Zack "Eddie Vedder" Parsons has once again taken a trip into the wacky world of Japanese Hentai games.
  • The nation's housebuilders are approaching the key spring selling season with more than usual trepidation. Times, Sunday Times
  • The long journey took its toll on the intrepid traveller as her petrol tank sprung a leak and her aerial fell off.
  • Then the poetry establishment's outsized accolades gave them too big an idea of themselves, and they each turned into an image of what they were supposed to be like: Olds the intrepid forager among women's dirty little secrets, Graham the Old World philosopher-deconstructer of language, Glück the pithy celebrator of the domestic everyday event, Levine the working-class sage with no chips on his shoulders. Anis Shivani: Philip Levine and Other Mediocrities: What it Takes to Ascend to the Poet Laureateship
  • The threat of an epidemic caused great alarm and trepidation.
  • He inspires grudging respect and a good degree of trepidation. Times, Sunday Times
  • The surprising and illuminating thing to Westerling was the inspired statement to the press from the Gray Foreign Office, adroitly appealing to Gray chauvinism and justifying the "intrepidity" of the Gray commander in response to so-called "pin-pricking" exasperations. The Last Shot
  • The night before he began his college basketball career, Anthony was shanghaied along with the rest of his Syracuse teammates and was taken to a party at the New York museum on board the USS Intrepid aircraft carrier.
  • I approached with some trepidation, contemplating whether I was feeling ballsy enough to go back in.
  • Intrepid shoppers know that it's possible to land a bargain anywhere, even in one of Madison Avenue's most chichi boutiques.
  • Saint – Germain chose to say — it is certain that men and women alike flung themselves into a life of pleasure with an intrepidity which seemed to forbode the end of the world. Domestic Peace
  • I always feel a certain trepidation when I read the work of a friend, especially one who has given me as much encouragement and help as sartorias has. August 15th, 2006
  • Always a disciple of hearty and strenuous living, he suggested more than casually his own famous character - the intrepid warrior, adventurer, and seizer of thrones, Conan the Cimmerian. The Conan Chronicles
  • In the manner of my friend I was at once struck with an incoherence — an inconsistency; and I soon found this to arise from a series of feeble and futile struggles to overcome an habitual trepidancy, an excessive nervous agitation. Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque. In Two Volumes. Vol. I
  • I gripped my backpack, knuckles whitening as the trepidation in my gut hardened into anger.
  • In recounting his teenage travails as a Boston schoolboy growing up with a "dollop" of Catholic guilt and a full spectrum of FM stations, Sheffield navigates Reaganomics, Boy George, and Rambo with wit, self-deprecation, and not an ounce of trepidation. Kristi York Wooten: A Girl Talks to Rob Sheffield about Duran Duran (and His New Book)
  • Police patrols at the bridges have been stepped up but the detailed nature of the warning is bound to add trepidation to an already nervous situation.
  • I arrived at my first board meeting, with a great deal of trepidation, and was very impressed.
  • Of course, most people respond to a note like that with fear and trepidation and then anger.
  • The intrepid adventurer has only sailed once in his life, on a short trip around the Greek Islands 22 years ago.
  • While some intrepid individuals did speculate in currency futures, highly trained specialists dominated the pits.
  • What he actually is is an intrepid explorer of a body's uneasy relationship with the space around it. Times, Sunday Times
  • Who are they, these intrepid explorers? Times, Sunday Times
  • After finding lost cities and travelling across uninhabitable parts of the globe, intrepid explorer Sir Ranulph Fiennes is coming to give a speech in Bolton.
  • But in the absence of intrepid investigative reporting and editorial courage, they smothered the audience in inconsequential material about the most consequential of topics.
  • An intrepid group are set to take to the highways and byways of the county as part of a fundraising drive for cancer research.
  • Although mortally wounded in this display of valor, his intrepid act saved five men from death or serious injury.
  • The second line is supererogative in syllables, whether from the oscitancy of the transcriber, or from the trepidation which might have overpowered the modest Frenchman, on finding himself in the act of writing to so 'great' a man, I shall not dare to determine. Biographia Epistolaris, Volume 1.
  • They kept dumb in fear and trepidation.
  • It fascinates me how we've automatically made sex so titillating and taboo at the same time that anyone who dares to write about it or incorporate it into their job description, whether as an intrepid observer or as a sex worker (a category that can include strippers, dominatrices, phone sex operators, nude models, and the like), is automatically up for ridicule. Rachel Kramer Bussel: Fearless About Sexual Freedom
  • Intrepid Potash Inc. produces and markets potash and langbeinite. Forbes.com: News
  • I don't know why I say that. [oh look i'm crying again] I watched it with a certain trepidation, and halfway through the clip, when images of the results of the white phosphorous began showing, I could not stop crying. Response: [I can't happen to think of a title]
  • A similar danger recalled the intrepid prince to the defence of the front; and, as he galloped through the columns, the centre of the left was attacked, and almost overpowered by the furious charge of the Persian cavalry and elephants. History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 2
  • Captain Hoxworth volunteered several interviews with the press in which he contended that only his swift reaction to the first attempts at mutiny had preserved his ship, and thereafter he became known as the intrepid captain who had quelled the Chinese mutiny. Hawaii
  • Your intrepid blogger promises to infiltrate this suspicious-sounding organization and report the truth!
  • The most intrepid veteran dares no more than n wipe his face with his cambric sudarium.
  • I see an intrepid adventurer plodding blindly through a world of booby traps, goblins, jesters and dragons.
  • We boarded the ship with trepidation, as memories of a previous trip over 10 years ago were not particularly pleasant.
  • Although mortally wounded in this display of valor, his intrepid act saved five men from death or serious injury.
  • Caitlin and Sheelagh entered the bathroom with trepid alertness and peered where Zee was pointing. In Other Worlds
  • Perhaps this importance accounts for the sheer trepidation many feel as they walk up to the podium. Times, Sunday Times
  • Among the batterie de cuisine needed by intrepid cooks is a Cryovac machine for vacuum-sealing food, an immersion circulator for cooking sous-vide ("under vacuum") and a liquid-nitrogen cartridge for freezing things fast (such as milk, to be crunched up for "snow"). Modernism on a Fork
  • To the contrary: Given Boone's hostility toward the president, it's unlikely that he had any trepidation at all in penning such a smear. Terry Krepel: Pat Boone, Obama-Hater
  • This sand is absolutely dry to the stern of the Intrepid and no craft could pass through here. The Fight at Zeebrugge
  • It was, however, not necessary to wait for noon; for about half-past ten o'clock a boat was seen approaching the _Nonsuch_ from the shore; and when she presently drew near enough to permit recognition of the faces of those in her it was seen that the alcalde was her solitary passenger; and very shortly afterwards she ranged up alongside the English ship, and Don Juan Alvarez climbed the side ladder in an evident state of profound trepidation. The Cruise of the Nonsuch Buccaneer
  • He was certainly to blame for not using greater caution on his march, but the coolness and intrepidity which he exhibited when he found himself ambuscaded, aided materially in restoring order and in inspiring his men with courage. The Yankee Tea-party Or, Boston in 1773
  • I'll admit, when I walked into the room and noticed that the first people I saw either had big ‘NO WAR’ buttons on their lapels or were wearing chadors, I felt some trepidation.
  • Our intrepid troopers had put down a 20-inch super rat, described as ‘vicious as a fighting dog and as big as a dachshund.’
  • Until that day, solar astronomers will continue to watch the sun with trepidation, never knowing what might erupt next.
  • I have been told on more than one occasion that arrival of the video on the doormat has been met with fear, trepidation, emotion, even panic.
  • What he actually is is an intrepid explorer of a body's uneasy relationship with the space around it. Times, Sunday Times
  • Intrepid reporter Claire Tomlinson collared Rovers' Turkish midfield star for a quick post-match chat after viewers had voted him their man-of-the-match.
  • A very nice young man, of whom no maid's mother need ever be in trepidation; a very strong young man, whose substance had not been wasted in riotous living; a very learned young man, with a Freiberg mining engineer's diploma and a B.A. sheepskin from Yale; and, lastly, CHAPTER 7
  • All lie in wait for the intrepid visitor .
  • Luckily, we have some brave and intrepid reviewers who are willing to take a stand.
  • Today dockworkers look with trepidation at the beginning of another era.
  • Ruby herself had taught the girl this accomplishment -- rare enough at the time -- and Mary Jane handled it gingerly, beginning each sentence in a whisper, as if awed by her own intrepidity, and ending each in a kind of gratulatory cheer. I Saw Three Ships and Other Winter Tales
  • We view future developments with some trepidation.
  • However, we should interfere in local government with some trepidation because local democracy and local accountability underpin parliamentary democracy and accountability.
  • He would have found these Confederates standing calmly in the open field, waiting the command to rush upon Hancock's advancing legions, and filled with more anxiety for Lee's safety than for their own, thus exhibiting that true intrepidity which is begotten only in bravest breasts amid greatest perils. Reminiscences of the Civil War
  • Breathless messengers, fugitive Swiss, denunciatory Patriots, trepidation; finally tripudiation! The French Revolution
  • The posthumous publication of his diaries is awaited with trepidation by some and eager anticipation by those who knew him best. Times, Sunday Times
  • “Captain, the runabout Clyde has undocked from Intrepid.” Star Trek The Next Generation®
  • A degree of trepidation always surrounds a recital by an opera singer with more than 55 years on the clock. Times, Sunday Times
  • A few years back Greenpeace occupied Rockall for more than a month, and we're obliged to those intrepid eco-warriors for their help and advice in putting together our plan.
  • Most arrive with fear and trepidation and have to cultivate the ability to cope.
  • He vacillates between childlike bemusement and childlike trepidation.
  • But there is a crucial difference: these intrepid space explorers are spiders. Times, Sunday Times
  • Entering this weekend, both clubs cling with trepidation to fourth position in their respective leagues. Times, Sunday Times
  • Spin does not test your bravery like speed, but it can turn batsmen inside out and upside down with anxiety and trepidation. The Sun
  • I went along with more than a little trepidation. Times, Sunday Times
  • An intrepid adventurer will persist all the way to the end of the line.
  • During her second pregnancy his wife, Shelley, developed toxemia; the couple awaited the new baby's birth with trepidation.
  • Here he paused, astonished at his own trepidity, and also in fear lest his aristocratic customers should be offended. Heiress of Haddon
  • Intrepid implies absolute fearlessness & especially suggests dauntlessness in facing the new or unknown.
  • Several of our intrepid heroes are forced to make some rather weighty decisions.
  • Bensusan can generate real excitement and drama with his solo work through intriguing melodies, rich ornamentation, and sheer dextrous intrepidity.
  • I took the canoe, and on one intrepid voyage found a pair of dab chicks. Times, Sunday Times
  • During her second pregnancy his wife, Shelley, developed toxemia; the couple awaited the new baby's birth with trepidation.
  • We recognise the familiar cushions and head rests, the trepidation of take-off and disguise of bravado.
  • So little of the fop; yet so elegant and rich in his dress: his person so specious: his air so intrepid: so much meaning and penetration in his face: so much gaiety, yet so little affectation; no mere toupet-man; but all manly; and his courage and wit, the one so known, the other so dreaded, you must think the petits-maîtres Clarissa Harlowe
  • Having gone into the clinic with some trepidation, I walk out of it feeling like a man who has drunk deep from the fountain of life.
  • Kord kvartalis kell 15. 45-16.15 on Kultuurkapitali trepid rahvast täis. Tatsutahime Diary Entry
  • Tam hieme quam aestate intrepide sulcant Oceanum, et duo illorum duces non minore audacia quam fortuna totius orbem terrae circumnavigarunt. Anatomy of Melancholy
  • It's personal, and you can sense, amidst the all the uncertainty and trepidation, American resolve stiffening.
  • In the manner of my friend I was at once struck with an incoherence -- an inconsistency; and I soon found this to arise from a series of feeble and futile struggles to overcome an habitual trepidancy -- an excessive nervous agitation. Southern Prose and Poetry for Schools
  • The intrepid devotee, who is half English and half Portugese, is based at the One in Christ convent in the Irish town of Cork.
  • With no little trepidation, he ran a diagnostic, pinpointing the alarm, and called up the sequence that had triggered it.
  • This he did, in fear and trepidation, taking with him two other church workers who were accompanying him.
  • The two intrepid cyclists would be very glad of sponsorship.
  • Some intrepid individuals were still prepared to make the journey.
  • Was my great-uncle Brendan related to St. Brendan, the intrepid Irish monk who may have sailed to Newfoundland in the eighth century? Tracing My Roots and Coming Up With Dirt
  • One of the few insects to conquer the oceans, some intrepid species venture hundreds of miles across becalmed tropical seas.
  • A few intrepid explorers stake out some new, unexplored territory.
  • That it is not a place where we have any trepidation or fear.
  • They have come to it together, she and the intrepid, athletic explorers in her past life that she is so reluctant to consider. A Roomful of Birds - Scottish short stories 1990
  • In the manner of my friend I was at once struck with an incoherence—an inconsistency; and I soon found this to arise from a series of feeble and futile struggles to overcome an habitual trepidancy, an excessive nervous agitation. The Fall of the House of Usher
  • The apostasy, however, was not universal, and the "Intrepid Faith" of Pius XI symbolizes the martyrs in Spain and Mexico at the time. p.96 The fall of Russia into Communism and the resultant persecution of believers needs also to be remembered. Archive 2009-05-01
  • Now our intrepid graduate student can conclude that the piety of the wise consists in the imitation of the gods.
  • These intrepid adventurers deserved to have their story told, and it is told well.
  • I am fearless, intrepid, bold. Times, Sunday Times
  • It is always bustling with intrepid browsers (I prefer the quieter and relatively less crowded annex on Fulton Street in lower Manhattan) and books stretch as far as the eye can see.
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  • We have to be obliged to the bravery, talents and intrepidity of Mr. Fu Tianhong as the sponsor.
  • There are occasions, however, when we can hardly brook the intrepidity of intruders.
  • Scilicet haec populo pexusque togaque recenti et natalicia tandem cum sardonyche albus sede leges celsa, liquido cum plasmate guttur mobile conlueris, patranti fractus ocello. tunc neque more probo videas nec voce serena ingentis trepidare Titos, cum carmina lumbum intrant et tremulo scalpuntur ubi intima versu. Post-Augustan Poetry From Seneca to Juvenal
  • But fear and trepidation about the web also crept to the fore, leading to clampdowns and concerns about the internet's ‘potential for evil’.
  • Intrepid M Dame Judi Dench ignoring safety advice and heading straight for the barrio, favella, off piste, whatever. Dale's Diary Envy: LOL Fact Check Service
  • There's a mixture of trepidation and euphoria to this song as it timidly climbs: the yearning sound of the violin constantly clawing over the quickening beat.
  • Archie describes the rappel itself as ‘fabulous from beginning to end,’ but he admits to some healthy trepidation.
  • Intrepid says: pezmiztix says: not sure what all the stammering is about in here. foreign campaign contributions certainly drove obama to victory last year. Think Progress » Cornyn Hypocritically Accuses Democrats Of ‘Hysterical’ Reaction To Right-Wing Judicial Activism
  • The idea of disco infused hardcore doesn't exactly reek of intrepid musical exploration.
  • In which intrepid-but-naïve young man of action, Tom Kidd is thrust - by a Twist of Fate - headlong into a sequence of events which involve a life-or-death dilemma arising from the practical ramifications of a not particularly plausible but really neat scientific speculation … and solves this problem by having an adventure in the stars. Archive 2005-07-01
  • I see an intrepid adventurer plodding blindly through a world of booby traps, goblins, jesters and dragons.
  • The diplomatist is the captain of the frigate, thrown out at a distance to make his observations, and enabled to exhibit his intrepidity and talent, through, from the smallness of his means, the results may be equally small. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 56, Number 348
  • My trepidation gave way to guilty chuckles, then belly laughs and then genuine admiration.
  • A team of intrepid roller skaters aim to cover 1,500 miles across Europe in aid of a bone marrow charity.
  • Number 14 (Up Country, 2002, etc.) from the master of the parboiled potboiler, in which an intrepid cop single-handedly staves off Armageddon. Wild Fire by Nelson DeMille: Book summary
  • A year earlier, the intrepid oars-woman tried to row across the north Atlantic in the same 23-foot, self-righting craft, starting from North Carolina's Outer Banks.
  • He mastered his trepid nature as best he could, and stayed there. Oberheim (Voices)
  • The Provost looked anew upon the careless, intrepid young Northumbrian, who seemed not to care a bodle for his imminent fate. Border Ghost Stories
  • Each fellow stood there as bravely as human flesh and blood could stand, and faced the iron hail with unblenching courage and intrepid coolness. Campaign Pictures of the War in South Africa (1899-1900) Letters from the Front
  • At the mention of the name the little group grew very grave, their avariciousness replaced by trepidation. The Curse of the Wendigo
  • With "Missing on Superstition Mountain" Holt, 262 pages, $15.99 , she moves to the open country of the American West in a story that pits four intrepid children against the inchoate power of a mountain aswirl with rumor, myth, history and the names of the dead and disappeared. When Learning Is A Dangerous Thing
  • It was with some trepidation that I ascended the stairs to my beloved Indigo last night.
  • So the ladies felt in duty bound to stretch a point, especially in the case of so intrepid a blockader. Gone with the Wind
  • Intrepid also markets langbeinite, another mineral containing potassium that is a better fertilizer for some crops. Potash Bears Fruit for the Intrepid Investor
  • Having come from such an ignominious background there was a certain amount of trepidation but fear not for I discovered the magic of the wok!
  • The genes show that the invasion force involved just a few intrepid voyagers.
  • Now thirty-five intrepid Lionisers were gazing at the outside of the small single-fronted cottage with its tiny parlour overlooking the street.
  • They host Norwich City today and fans would be forgiven for feeling trepidation. Times, Sunday Times
  • Yet I approach this New Year's Eve with trepidation, for it will bring an unwelcome change.
  • If the body movements are shaky with trepidation, physical aging has affected the person.
  • Notwithftanding their natural in - trepidity, and averfion for all dtfgitifc, their wars de - A philosophical and political history of the British settlements and trade in North America ...
  • The muscles of the spiritual athlete pant for such exertion; and without it, they would dwindle into trepid imbecility. Probabilities : An aid to Faith

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