"Bold face" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... deal of the world since that time, and I am bound to confess, that not a few of the great reputations I have witnessed, have stood upon grounds very similar, and not a whit more stable than my own. A bold face, a ready tongue, a promptness to support, with my right hand, whatever my lips were pledged to, and, above all, good luck, made me the king of my company; and although that sovereignty only extended to half a squadron of hussars, it was ...
— Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Volume 1, No. 4, September, 1850 • Various
... tried to recall all the faces he had seen. This was impossible, of course, yet he remembered many. Then he visualized the places in Denver that for one reason or another had struck him particularly. Suddenly into one of these flashed the pale, sullen, bold face ...
— The Mysterious Rider • Zane Grey
... but to put a bold face on, greet him in a friendly way, and invent some plausible story to account for my action in ...
— Green Mansions - A Romance of the Tropical Forest • W. H. Hudson
... Gunter replied in his wonted surly manner; but at last, feeling that the best way would be to put a bold face on the matter, he said with an ...
— The Young Trawler • R.M. Ballantyne
... have nothing to do with him, and how she abuses him with opprobrious terms; which puts him to dying for love right on the spot; and Matthew, to help on the joke, calls in the parish clerk and others to sing a mock requiem. As Ralph does not succeed in dying, Matthew counsels him to put on a bold face, and claim the lady's hand in person, after treating her to a serenade. He agrees to this, and while the serenade is in progress the lady enters; he declares his passion; she rejects him with scorn, and returns his letter unread; whereupon Matthew ...
— Shakespeare: His Life, Art, And Characters, Volume I. • H. N. Hudson
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