Word: rashness
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...able to find it. The more you give him the more he expects. If once you favor him, he regards it as a wrong if after a reasonable time he is not again made a happy recipient of a small donation, and if one man at a table is rash enough to fee him the other men who do not do so are in his eyes the souls of meanness...
...vain she assured herself that his conduct at the glen proved him good and noble. "A single act is no basis for determining character," her judgment replied; "it may be quite in keeping with the actor's character; it may be merely a whim." She had been very rash, she knew; and she was growing more and more repentant every moment as she lifted the latch of her father's door...
...only have a chance of listening to good German for some hours a day, but should also make acquaintances among the students and so increase my opportunities for speaking. Having settled myself comfortably for the winter in a German University town, I bethought myself of this advice and, rash mortal that I was, resolved to carry...
...whose voice was louder than thunder and deafened any mortal in his presence. This Din was so fearful a dragon that his slave Subdin usually went before him and suffered no one to approach; and he who after seeing Subdin drew near to Din was reckoned the most rash of mortals. The fourth dragon was a white dragon, known as Rejistrah: and there was a strange legend about him, that he had once been a sea-jay, compelled to assume his present form because of his insolence to the gods. This Rejistrah was ruled over by the fifth dragon, said...
...interesting state, one that is warranted to fascinate the fair sex. Then it 's a sure remedy for unpleasant engagements; and you can shake a bore on the strength of it every time. But, my young friend, do not allow these allurements to tempt you into the rash path that leads per asthma ad astra. Breathing slowly and peaceably is a boon which you will learn how to appreciate when you have finished your diurnal sweater of five miles, - a mere nothing, Jim will call it. No! If a man bores you, you can go to sleep; if an engagement...