I must embolden myself to speak a last warning to thee.
"The Three Heron's Feathers"
Hermann Sudermann
It appeared, he affirmed, one morning, in the most sudden and extraordinary manner, as if it had been thrown up by an earthquake during the night, and having continued so long above water as to embolden a single family of fishers to settle upon it, it disappeared again as suddenly as it had come, leaving no trace of its existence except the rocks which we had found so troublesome.
"The Campaigns of the British Army at Washington and New Orleans 1814-1815"
G. R. Gleig
The hope, however, of your lenity towards me for the delay, and the approaching time of the fulfillment of my promise, embolden me to express my wish, which, among the hundreds offered to you to-day and yesterday, may perhaps appear to you only an insignificant interloper; I say perhaps, for it would be too bold in me to think that you could form no better wish for yourself than mine.
"Haydn"
J. Cuthbert Hadden