dauntlessness

Though they defend themselves with a bravery, skill, and devotion that has absolutely no comparison, proving on every occasion their great superiority in dauntlessness and address, no advantages of daring and prowess can overcome the evil effects of their defensive policy, and the probability is that in a few years more the noblest race of uncivilized men, will become utterly extinct.

Life in the Rocky Mountains 1844

Once upon a time, science fiction writers expected similar dauntlessness from space pioneers.

Eastern Europe 2009

Extraordinary in its detail—and in its close-up pictures of this nimble army of foragers who have, it appears, settled on Toronto as a favorite destination—the film fascinates with its display of the dauntlessness of the creatures, about which many unhappy householders need no instruction, and their capacity to adapt.

A Musical for Marilyn Monroe Dorothy Rabinowitz 2012

She recognized in herself his pride, his dauntlessness, his lofty anger, his secretive withdrawals.

PEARL BUCK IN CHINA Hilary Spurling 2010

She recognized in herself his pride, his dauntlessness, his lofty anger, his secretive withdrawals.

PEARL BUCK IN CHINA Hilary Spurling 2010

All the qualities that I most admire in a man were clearly shown at that juncture: courage and dauntlessness, without boasting or big words.

The South Pole~ Through the Mountains 2009

So Connie played with the child and was amused by its little female dauntlessness, and got a deep voluptuous pleasure out of its soft young warmth.

Lady Chatterley's Lover 2004

From the first instant, Kate respected her for her isolation and her dauntlessness.

The Plumed Serpent 2003

The country gave her a strange feeling of hopelessness and of dauntlessness.

The Plumed Serpent 2003

All the qualities that I most admire in a man were clearly shown at that juncture: courage and dauntlessness, without boasting or big words.

The South Pole; an account of the Norwegian antarctic expedition in the 'Fram', 1910 to 1912 2003