1 But over-strained eyes caused pen and ink to be laid aside for a bold attempt at poker-sketching.
2 Jo was determined to have it out now, and tried to look quite placid, though she quaked a little after her bold speech.
3 Raphael's face was found boldly executed on the underside of the moulding board, and Bacchus on the head of a beer barrel.
4 Little notice was taken of her stories, but they found a market, and encouraged by this fact, she resolved to make a bold stroke for fame and fortune.
5 I love it dearly, and I'll come, if you are quite sure nobody will hear me, and be disturbed, she added, fearing to be rude, and trembling at her own boldness as she spoke.
6 Laurie sat bold upright, and meekly took her empty plate feeling an odd sort of pleasure in having 'little Amy' order him about, for she had lost her shyness now, and felt an irrestible desire to trample on him, as girls have a delightful way of doing when lords of creation show any signs of subjection.
7 Here the lecture began, but Jo heard very little of it, for while Professor Sands was prosing away about Belzoni, Cheops, scarabei, and hieroglyphics, she was covertly taking down the address of the paper, and boldly resolving to try for the hundred-dollar prize offered in its columns for a sensational story.