What is "dauntless"

Usage examples of "dauntless".

The Marines at Ewa saw a Dauntless which was probably his, in a twisting, swirling, low altitude mix-up with two or three Zeros, fixed and free guns all firing at once.

Men of courtly nurture, heirs to the polish of a far-reaching ancestry, here, with their dauntless hardihood, put to shame the boldest sons of toil.

Woodmen told us that the Upmeads carles, though they be not many, are strong and dauntless, and since we now had pleasant life before us, with good thralls to work for us, and with plenty of fair women for our bed-mates, we deemed it best to have the most numbers we might, so that we might over-whelm the said carles at one blow, and get as few of ourselves slain as might be.

For she fought overwhelming numbers with a dauntless courage that nothing could surpass.

Dauntless and her crew were thrown out of a hyper-spatial tube and into that highly enigmatic Nth space, La Verne Thorndyke had been Chief Technician.

He dashed after polecats and stoats -- ermine in summer-brown coats -- and backed off when the dauntless predators held their ground.

Davis dived first, Shaw following, smoothly, precisely, ignoring the tracers reaching up like broomstraws and the heavy flak bursts that jarred the Dauntlesses, with stick and rudders lining up the growing yellow deck beginning to slide around to starboard.

The Wildcats climbed sharply, forming into two sections of CAP and the Dauntlesses fanned out on their assigned search sections.

Hal Hopping in the lead, the first six Dauntlesses of Scouting Six slanted abruptly down, beginning their glide- bombing runs.

The Dauntlesses nosed over, the rush of air increased and the air-speed indicators moved up as they slanted in toward the push-over point The pilots, leaning forward, concentrating on formation and the narrow yellow rectangle below, felt their planes shake and heard the windbroken hammering of the 30s as the gunners opened up.

Then the reactionary element prevailed, and with a mingled sentiment of admiration for the dauntless front of the small army of regulars and a half painful derision of their own instinctive deference, a storm of cheers burst from the multitude, which was taken up again and again, till the forest rang to its mountain buttresses.

Lee and Johnson turned their Dauntlesses into fighters with guns at both ends, and in a wrapped-up, heavy-gutted, low-altitude swirl of wings and props and stringing tracers, with the horizon usually vertical and the ocean frequently overhead, shot down three of the overconfident Zeros before ducking into the friendly cumulus.

Thence in the midst of the dauntless throng of workmen of that great district of Paris, enclosed in the Faubourg as in a fortress, being both Legislators and Generals, multiplying and inventing means of defence and of attack, launching Proclamations and unearthing the pavements, employing the women in writing out placards while the men are fighting, we will issue a warrant against Louis Bonaparte, we will issue warrants against his accomplices, we will declare the military chiefs traitors, we will outlaw in a body all the crime and all the criminals, we will summon the citizens to arms, we will recall the army to duty, we will rise up before Louis Bonaparte, terrible as the living Republic, we will fight on the one hand with the power of the Law, and on the other with the power of the People, we will overwhelm this miserable rebel, and will rise up above his head both as a great Lawful Power and a great Revolutionary Power!

Yes, we are men of Akkad, Akkad-that-is-reborn, we are brave and dauntless, and fear no shadows of the night.

Four men who had been amongst the most dauntless defenders of the barricades of the Rue Pont-aux-Choux, of the Rue St.