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Derring-do   Listen
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derring-do  n.  Brave and heroic deeds.






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"Derring-do" Quotes from Famous Books



... that history which is never written. Though Cynthia had met many leaders of thought and action, she had never before encountered one who had taken part in a struggle of such peculiar significance as the Boer revolt. She was not an English girl, eager only to hear tales of derring-do in which her fellow-countrymen figure heroically, but a citizen of that wider world that refuses to look at events exclusively through British spectacles; therein lay the germ of real peril to Medenham. He ...
— Cynthia's Chauffeur • Louis Tracy



Words linked to "Derring-do" :   feat, exploit, effort



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