Word: bolds
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...documents and handed them over. Harry read the first sentence and exploded "General Morgan, sir? You're not taking General Morgan today, tomorrow or the next day." Thoroughly aroused, Harry hustled off to warn his fellow townsmen that Cowpens, S.C. (pop. 1,800) had launched a new and bold attack to snatch the body of General Daniel Morgan...
...Bold Turpin vunce,on Hounslow Heath...
...bold mare Bess bestrode...
This here's the bold Turpin...
...courtesy of the road, in truth as in ballad, was subject to broad interpretations on the narrow highways of 17th and 18th Century England. Bold Dick Turpin was one, but only one, of a numerous night-errantry that pranced the moonlight lanes about London, hearts high and pistols level, to cry the hapless traffic to Stand and deliver what it had in pocket. "The finest men in England, physically speaking," said Thomas De Quincey, "the very noblest specimens of man, considered as an animal, were the mounted robbers who cultivated their profession of the great roads...