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Examples
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"You may indeed, sir, and may the good Lord preserve you from a like harm, which hit make my blood boil to think of my pore Mark's hescape, him being what you might call owdacious to that degree.
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‘Say it again, you wile, owdacious fellow!’ said Mr. Bumble.
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With that she let loose the most owdacious white bantam and scattered some corn on the floor; then she sat down and laughed like an imp when the foolish thing hopped up to her and flopped onter her lap.
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"You owdacious young monkey!" he cried, slewing his head round on his shoulders, even as the old _Victory's_ hull slewed with the tide, so that he could look me full in the face.
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"Now then, owdacious," she began, somewhat slurring of speech.
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But none so owdacious ugly -- if you'll allow the expression.
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'I'll have a warrant out foh you dis day, Geddes, you owdacious villyum!'
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"Well! the owdacious!" exclaimed Mrs Bowldler in a kind of hysterical titter, snatching at her bodice somewhere over the region of her heart.
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'You owdacious boy!' says I. 'Didn't you promise your ma you'd leave off them tricks?'
In the Yule-Log Glow, Book II Christmas Tales from 'Round the World
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But none so owdacious uglyif youll allow the expression.
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