His bold eyes raked the woman, and a perceptive spectator might sense that there was more to their relationship than that of slave to owner.

Nothing was going to be done this year to celebrate Garibaldi's bold and unsuccessful defense of Rome.

`` Uncle Sam '' was, indeed, a rich uncle to Prokofieff, in those opulent, post-war victory years of peace and prosperity, bold speculations and extravaganzas, enjoyment and pleasure: `` The Golden Twenties ''.

Mr. Skolovsky's approach to the concerto was bold, sweeping and tonally percussive.

It was a controversial design at the time for the bold forms of the undulating stone facade and wrought iron decoration of the balconies and windows, designed largely by Josep Maria Jujol, who also created some of the plaster ceilings.

There was a rise at the point of confession, as though the author was stepping out into the open and making a bold declaration, but a corresponding fall when admitting his blindness.

The richest grave of all was explored at Vaphio in Laconia in 1889, and yielded, besides many gems and miscellaneous goldsmiths ' work, two golden goblets chased with scenes of bull-hunting, and certain broken vases painted in a large bold style which remained an enigma until the excavation of Knossos.

When Hitler's chief engineer, Fritz Todt, began opening the new autobahn ( highways ) in 1935, many of the bridges and service stations were " bold examples of modernism " – among those submitting designs was Mies van der Rohe.

Embittered Bacardi helmsman José Pepín Bosch bought a surplus B-26 bomber with the hopes of bombing Cuban oil refineries ( the bold plan was foiled when a picture of the bomber appeared on the front page of The New York Times ).

Attlee believed that it was a bold strategy, which could have been successful if it had been better implemented.

Although perestroika was considered bold in the context of Soviet history, Gorbachev's attempts at economic reform were not radical enough to restart the country's chronically sluggish economy in the late 1980s.

The particle nature is more easily discerned if an object has a large mass, and it was not until a bold proposition by Louis de Broglie in 1924 that the scientific community realised that electrons also exhibited wave – particle duality.

While little progress was made toward gender equality during the Revolution, the activism of French feminists was bold and particularly significant in Paris.

In addition to these bold writings, her defense of the king was one of the factors leading to her execution.

These articles were bold, as Washington was an enemy general who commanded an army in a cause that many Britons believed would ruin the empire.

Puccini succeeded in mastering the orchestra as no other Italian had done before him, creating new forms by manipulating structures inherited from the great Italian tradition, loading them with bold harmonic progressions which had little or nothing to do with what was happening then in Italy, though they were in step with the work of French, Austrian and German colleagues.

We are told that he was " plain and powerful in preaching, fervent in prayer ", " a discerner of other men's spirits, and very much master of his own ", skilful to " speak a word in due season to the conditions and capacities of most, especially to them that were weary, and wanted soul's rest "; " valiant in asserting the truth, bold in defending it, patient in suffering for it, immovable as a rock ".

The Popish Plot of 1678 sparked renewed interest in the Gunpowder Plot, resulting in a book by Thomas Barlow, Bishop of Lincoln, which refuted " a bold and groundless surmise that all this was a contrivance of Secretary Cecil ".

Attempting to arrest the prophet for his bold words of defiance, Jeroboam's hand was " dried up ," and the altar before which he stood was rent asunder.

Brahms's point of view looked both backward and forward ; his output was often bold in its exploration of harmony and rhythm.

So bold, indeed, that Coleridge for once was able to dispense with any language out of the past.

Above me a dark rider was whipping his pony with a quirt in an attempt to hurdle the bales.

It was dark and, I sensed, very large ; ;

Although it was dark as usual I could see that the hall had only recently contained a great many people.

I felt certain that the director, like the afternoon clerk, seldom moved beyond the counter, that the hall, to them, was a jungle, a dark and unwelcome place.

It was dark early, because of the storm.

Once the door was open, they crowded him inside the dark building.

There was a feeling that this mission would be canceled like all the others and that this muddy wet dark world of combat would go on forever.

His face was dark as the sky above it as he stood on the wing and waited for his pilot.

Underneath him the sea was a dark and muddied gray.

Another car was coming, a tiny, dark shape on a far hill.

He was looking out on the dark waters of the Lake when I came upon him and without wasting words I smacked him hard across the face.

The Grafin, who was charmed by her, told her, `` Your sister who was here two years ago has quite dark hair.

She was like charcoal, he thought -- dark, opaque, explosive.

Her face was pale but set and her dark eyes smoldered with blame for Ben.

Slender and tanned, her dark brown hair was drawn straight back, simply.

He was -- as he told himself in the vernacular of a trade no longer his own -- riding the dark train out.

Lunch was over, and we walked back to the hotel with the light and dark of Paris screaming at us.

A little man with a `` a dark copper color '' skin, he was wearing `` calico trousers and a white cotton short gown ''.

There was a host of dark horses.

It was dark.

Al's Little Cafe was small, dark, narrow, and filled with the mingled scent of beer, tobacco smoke, and Italian cooking.

The school was small, dark and ill-equipped.

Far away, standing before a curtained window in the study room, was his father, hands tucked under his coattails, and staring into the dark church.