His boldest endeavor before and during the Civil War was painting antislavery scenes, like the powerful "Ride for Liberty - The Fugitive Slaves" (circa 1862).

It was a bold endeavour, but in reality, the match failed to create the barest ripple on America's sporting consciousness.

Charles Locke Eastlake called the design "a bold and magnificent endeavour to shake off the trammels of antiquarian precedent, which had long fettered the progress of the Revival, to create not a new style, but a development of previous styles".

"Has it occurred to you that your bold endeavor has already been tried, and failed?"

A centennial service was held in remembrance of these events in 1997 when several hundred persons turned out against a very nasty wind to warm their hearts to that far off day and remember the families that suffered as a consequence of their bold and fatal endeavor.

No doubt empathic identification has a lot to do with Scarry's current project: airplane disasters, her boldest extraliterary endeavor yet.

In a bold surgical endeavor that recalls the experiments of the mad Dr. Frankenstein, Theresa Rebeck has tried to transplant the big, blood-gorged heart of a Greek tragedy into the slender body of a modest American comic drama.

On a sticky afternoon near the northeast tip of Florida, a 24-year-old with a precocious manner emerged from the shade for his latest bold endeavor.

This is a bold and weird endeavor.

Can such a bold endeavor properly commence, if it begins with a terrible crime?