Stunt double, e.g

Usage examples of daredevil.

The fear and the problem were surely real, though obviously there were one or two jesting daredevils in Binger who had stolen out to the mound and made off with the tools I had left.

Soon the passages and their high glass walls appeared to be changing placesor at least they agreed to share what activity remained: the daredevil roadsters broke in two and raced their ghosts away.

Maiko has utilized her fame as a daredevil to become a wealthy woman, marketing hundreds of products under the Tachibana name.

He was the offspring of a proud, daring breed: last of the barnstormers, the stunt fliers and the seat-of-the-pants winged daredevils.

They were barred to stop boys from being daredevils and he shook the bars, hoping that they could be loosened and that he and Clouter could drop down into the orphanage garden and make their way unseen to the cemetery, but the iron bars felt frustratingly solid.

There followed at least twenty mysterious names and acts, among them,"THE COCHRANE FAMILY, Five in Number, comprising Sarah, Nellie, Maggie, Butch, and Bill, in their American Songs and Dances," "ROBB WILTON, who will open his New Budget of Comicalities, including his Impersonation of the Midland Railway Guard," "THE FLYING PONGO, Daredevil Aerialist," "YOUNG & DEAN, the Eminent Negro Entertainers," "The World-Renowned BOSQUET TROUPE in The Wild West," "BELLA BIJOU & LILY GRAY, Sensational Duetists," and so on.

There was no communication between them that he could hear, yet they had the precision of daredevils, their manoeuvres repeatedly bringing them within a hair's breadth of each other.

Strange to say, my first terrible punishment and dreadful cutting up of poor Jemima, related in my last letter, had very little effect, except, if possible, to render me rather more of a daredevil.

If you want your airplanes to be credibly able to fly from Peetle to Pootle without crashing six times along the way and want your pilots and passengers to be anything but suicidal daredevils, you'll leave them in place.

The Eastmans, like Dan, believed in the powers of a good private-school education-specifically, in the case of Noah and Simon, in the power to rescue those two daredevils from the standard fates of rural, north country boys: the marriage of driving fast on the back roads, and beer.

I’d like to thank Uriah Heap and The Ozark Mountain Daredevils for providing the musical score.

There were the good-time girls who loved daredevils, and there were more serious ones, divorced, trying to get by with a couple of little kids, young girls in their thirties starting to fade, not having the time to be themselves.

Occasional boatloads of daredevils, paddling with might and main, appeared amid the river's surges, but the trails were almost deserted.

They're thrill seekers who see themselves as daredevils, on the way to Tierra del Fuego for a big whoop-de-doo storm party.

He dare not reach for a weapon lest the daredevil girl or young Harris (who now held a cocked pill-box in each hand), “.