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  • So far as the wholesale declaration of the illusoriness of physical evil -- the ravages and tortures of disease -- is concerned, the implicit belief extended to the pretensions of this creed to master all such ills is proof, if proof were wanted, of the success which rewards those who act on the maxim, "_de l'audace, toujours de l'audace_!"

    Problems of Immanence: studies critical and constructive Joseph Warschauer

  • Eliza, whose spirits always rose like Nelson's before the face of danger, and whose motto seemed to be '_De l'audace, de l'audace, et toujours de l'audace_,' would rush at the huge foe in a perfect transport of wild fury, and go to work at once to enclose him in her toils of triple silken cables.

    Science in Arcady Grant Allen 1873

  • _L'audace, encore l'audace, et toujours l'audace_ is the game to be played by the commander of disciplined troops against Asiatic levies, and no man was more sensible of this than the gallant soldier who now from the bastion of Sherpur could see the Afghan standards waving on the summit of the

    The Afghan Wars 1839-42 and 1878-80 Archibald Forbes 1869

  • Danton -- '_De l'audace, de l'audace, et toujours de l'audace_.'"

    Run to Earth A Novel 1875

  • Il a en effet été marié cinq fois et a deux liaisons principales au cours du récit, avec deux femmes qui pensent qu'elles deviendront sa sixième épouse, alors qu'il est toujours amoureux de sa cinquième femme, qui a eu l'audace de le quitter et, à la fin du livre, il a une fille de trois ans, son premier et dernier enfant.

    Archive 2010-07-01 Rene Meertens 2010

  • Toujours l'audace. by John Hanks on Tuesday, Aug 19, 2008 at 6: 38: 33 PM

    Ohio Election Officials Whistle Past the Graveyard of 2004 2008

  • In "The Education of Tommy Franks," the intoxication of conquests has clouded memory and a much-quoted French sentence -- "L'audace, l'audace, toujours l'audace!"

    Mail Call: An Unequal War 2007

  • In fact, it was Georges Jacques Danton who said, in a 1792 speech, "De l'audace, encore de l'audace, et toujours de l'audace."

    Mail Call: An Unequal War 2007

  • Pour vaincre, il nous faut de l'audace, encore une fois de l'audace, toujours de l'audace

    From On High 2005

  • The sonata was a triumph of what is termed l'audace in French, chutzpah in Yiddish.

    Unreconstructed Modernist 1995

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