Whereas across the border in Pontus is a man hardly thirty-vigorous, intelligent, aggressive and cocksure.
The phrase "Jack the Lad" is British slang for a "flashy, cocksure young man".
The ink had faded to brown, but the script was bold and spiky, the hand of an arrogant and cocksure young man.
He would have known, full well, that any other answer would be either a lie or the words of a cocksure and foolhardy man.
However, when a cocksure young man named Eddie (Richard Jaeckel) deliberately provokes an argument and draws on him, Ringo has no choice but to kill him.
Arrogant, cocksure old man.
This answer irritated Lucullus intensely; he loathed having cocksure men in his army at any level, and he found the statement detestably arrogant.
I hereby give Rome back to you-to all you little, cocksure, maggot-minded men!
The case Lambert v. Field involved two horses belonging to Luke Lambert, a coarse, cocksure man whom Adams did not like.
The opera tells the story of two cocksure young men who test the faithfulness of their fiancees.