I mean what's ther Second so blessed cocksure about?
"The Ghost Pirates"
William Hope Hodgson
cocksure he was, and before long she knew him boastful; but competence sat on him, none the less.
"Brand Blotters"
William MacLeod Raine
Carlis has weathered so many storms, so many attacks upon his reputation and civic honor, that he may have felt cocksure of his position and gone into this thing without thought for the future, but the other two are men of different caliber, men with everything in the world to lose."
"The Crevice"
William John Burns and Isabel Ostrander