Whether the daringness of the attempt, or the difficulties surmounted in its completion, be considered, the construction of this bridge may be looked upon as one of the most extraordinary actions of that extraordinary man.
"The Campaigns of the British Army at Washington and New Orleans 1814-1815"
G. R. Gleig
But I should call this capture of the Acro-Corinthus the last of the Grecian exploits, being comparable to the best of them, both for the daringness of it, and the success, as was presently seen by the consequences.
"Plutarch-Lives-of-the-noble-Grecians-and-Romans"
Clough, Arthur Hugh
Set apart himself from the common world, he loved that daringness of character which also made itself, among common things, aloof and alone.
"The Last Days of Pompeii"
Edward George Bulwer-Lytton