Fearlessly
['fiəlisli]
Definition
(adv.) without fear; 'fearlessly, he led the troops into combat'.
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Examples
- Her own first thought of how, if she had known all, she might have fearlessly told the truth, seemed low and poor. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- Stoop over his shoulder fearlessly, and read as he scribbles. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Shirley had trodden the plank successfully and fearlessly many a time before; Caroline had never yet dared to risk the transit. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- I beseech you to tell me how everything was, said Dorothea, fearlessly. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Morse, of Boston, developed the cutting of diamonds to its present perfection by fearlessly sacrificing weight to get proportion. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- The soft, graceful girl had disappeared, and in her place stood Clytemnestra, fearlessly daring the dagger of Orestes. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- He watched tearlessly--ordeals that he exacted should be passed through--fearlessly. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- She walked fearlessly, then, on daisy and turf, and through thick plantations; she reached Fieldhead, and penetrated to Miss Keeldar's dressing-room. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Here aloft, the companions of the swift-winged birds, we skim through the unresisting element, fleetly and fearlessly. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
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