| There is the tradition of law, the tradition of fashion, and the tradition of literature, a tradition dominant for the last three centuries, and which it was the height of temerariousness to call in question. |
| Also, it was widely supposed that a chief who showed too great temerariousness in the district council might find himself passed over for promotion, or even in danger of dismissal. |
| Under pain of temerariousness, as the theologians say, one may venture to dissent from the judgment of Sainte-Beuve, who declared the spurious Don Quixote to be slow and heavy. |
| Moreover, the pasion, if not regulated by the virtue of fortitude, gives way either to temerariousness or to pusillanimity. |
