I spoke subtle circles around the way I felt, not wanting to be overbold.

When this literature is tested the conclusion is inevitable that there has been overbold generalization.

The eye turned not aside nor yet was overbold.

Now I had no shield-nothingbut the assegai; but I was crafty and he was overbold.

Sir: you are overbold.

"Your father knew the dangers of being overbold."

"I was overbold, Princess; but I knew the Father would report me kindly; and I was hungry."

And if they have spent their working days astride a stock saddle, you may be sure they are bashful unless they are overbold and impossible.

The historian Fuller assumed this to have been the case, for he complains that the "stage have been overbold" in dealing with Fastolfe's memory.

"It may be that I am overbold," he murmured in her ear, "to repeat so soon my tale of love!

"You are overbold, sirrah!"

"I am well aware that the offer was overbold," he replied, with a self-complacency that made his profession of humility exasperating.

"If it please Your Grace," he puffed, "young men are overbold, and think only of the glory of battle and never of its dangers.