bold-spirited

She was a bold-spirited woman who feared nobody, and was rather rough of temper.

Wild Wales : Its People, Language and Scenery 2004

However, since it is undesirable to allow matters to proceed beyond recovery, the Gonfalon of Justice being in the hands of Luca Pitti, a bold-spirited man, Cosmo determined to let him adopt what course he thought proper, that if any trouble should arise it might be imputed to Luca and not to himself.

The History of Florence 2003

Captain Plunkett was a bold-spirited Irishman, who held a commission in our army.

The Yankee Tea-party Or, Boston in 1773 Henry C. Watson

Saxons should have realized your Grace's vision, of converting feudal drawbridges into gibbets; and yonder bold-spirited Cedric seemeth one to whom such an imagination might occur.

Ivanhoe 1892

But she was a bold-spirited woman, and by degrees her courage re-asserted itself.

Benita, an African romance Henry Rider Haggard 1890

Yet that bold-spirited creature was in no wise disturbed, and replied, with great enjoyment: --

Reels and Spindles A Story of Mill Life Evelyn Raymond 1876

American war of independence, inflamed many heads in Germany and raised a poetical opposition, which began with the bold-spirited

Germany from the Earliest Period Volume 4 Wolfgang Menzel 1835

His fierce habits, wild aspects, dismal shriek, and soiled and tattered garments, were enough to startle, not a timid maiden only, but a bold-spirited man.

The Partisan: A Tale of the Revolution. By the Author of "The Yemassee," "Guy Rivers," &c. In Two Volumes. Vol. II 1835

We shall be finely helped, if the churl Saxons should have realized your Grace's vision, of converting feudal drawbridges into gibbets; and yonder bold-spirited Cedric seemeth one to whom such an imagination might occur.

Ivanhoe. A Romance 1819

Saxons should have realized your Grace's vision, of converting feudal drawbridges into gibbets; and yonder bold-spirited Cedric seemeth one to whom such an imagination might occur.

Ivanhoe Walter Scott 1801