hardihood , also: hardiment old use

Had they the hardihood to stand their ground against him?"

I have not the hardihood to do that to Philip."

For he has not the hardihood to look me in the face, openly."

No man or woman has the hardihood to hint at the projected visit to the play.

Nobody having the hardihood to object to his doing so, he does it, and the party retire as they came up.

After a long moment she looked Kim squarely in the face again, with the hardihood of her race.

And in one moment all that brittle hardihood was gone from Mark's mood.

"I doubt he had the hardihood left to lie," said the earl.

"I under-estimated both their hardihood and the amount of cold steel they'd have about them."

Honor and hardihood go ill with a shaking hand or a blurred eye.

Then they told the men of that which had come to pass, and all wondered at their might and hardihood.

I began to realise the hardihood of my expedition among these unknown people.

Neither valour nor hardihood can save the man to whom it comes.

"And yet, knowing this, you had the hardihood to disobey my orders.

If they have such hardihood, let the file of the Bleater strike them dumb.

The Norse values emphasized were hardihood, hospitality, economy, and friendship.

He was still congratulating himself on his hardihood when he fell asleep.

But it has happened otherwise, and I must have scandalised my judges by such an exhibition of hardihood.

Would-would that we had the hardihood to essay such an enterprise."

'You think I'd offer any hardihood to her father!

And she will do it, she has the hardihood and the black ingratitude.

You said the Huntsman had not the hardihood to approach this island, to interfere with us and the work that we are doing."

His stare was intent, and it took all Sam's hardihood to meet it without shrinking a little.

Why shouldn't he be fascinated by her hardihood and her adventurousness?

The big tree, with all the seeming of hardihood, promising to stand for centuries to come, had suffered from a hidden decay.