Even at night the place is scarcely their own, for every now and then as the breeze comes along, the smouldering fires are fanned into bright flame, enough to alarm the boldest bird.
"Hodge and His Masters"
Richard Jefferies
"Oh, no," Peckover protested, pulling himself together and assuming the boldest face he could summon up.
"A Poached Peerage"
William Magnay
When, however, I can tell the people that it is their own old friend and master that sends them help, and bids them to be of good cheer,-when I can show them that, although separated by distance, your heart never ceases to live amongst them,-I know well the magic working of such a spell upon them, and how, with a bravery that the boldest soldier never surpassed, they will rise up against the stern foes of sickness and famine, and do battle with hard fortune manfully.
"The Martins Of Cro' Martin, Vol. II (of II)"
Charles James Lever