She was small, but exquisitely formed, and she walked with fearlessness and distinction Yet there was around her an angelic gravity, and that indefinable air of solitude, which she had brought from innocent studies and long seclusion from the tumult and follies of life.
"The Maid of Maiden Lane"
Amelia E. Barr
This daring philosopher, who kept aloof from professional honours, and dwelt apart in a wood, that he might be free to handle questions of theology and metaphysics with absolute fearlessness, had created a great sensation by his philosophical criticism in Germany.
"George Eliot"
Mathilde Blind
He was annoyed at his own lack of courage, he very candidly called it cowardice, but still that did not help him to regain the old fearlessness-the old pride.
"Landolin"
Berthold Auerbach