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Mere thugs did not possess the ability to daunt the comportment of someone with his breeding and class.
These days, with hundreds and hundreds of poeticules thronging the academies, the prospect of finding one's way as a poet must daunt the best.
True, the country's problems would daunt any leader, but he has not addressed any of them effectively after a year in office.
The impossibility of bringing this tale to the big screen would daunt any sane filmmaker.
Indeed, it is a demanding target that might daunt a newcomer, however some basic rules of preparation should prove sufficient.
They prefer not to be physically challenged by seating arrangements that would daunt even spelunkers.
Then again, career politicians are strange people, willing to risk horrors that would daunt other folk.
The enormity of the literacy challenge should not daunt us but it should caution us against over-ambitious expectations.
As far as going back into management is concerned, no it doesn't daunt me.
The apparent complexity of this Index should not daunt nor discourage the reader.
Even the prospect of getting down to taxing schoolwork did not daunt Amy.
The remote crash locations and construction of the sites do not daunt Mr. Lepine.
Meantime, the challenges of being Rector of Dundee should not daunt Kelly, with her empathetic skills, campaigning experience and endless enthusiasm.
But the grim situation did not daunt Dravid and Sachin Tendulkar, who compiled 67 before being trapped leg before wicket to Dion Nash.
Some of the ballots will exceed 50 pages, which will surely daunt even the minority of voters who can read. Many may fail even to get to see a ballot paper.
It is a challenge that might daunt even a native of the planet Krypton.
But the enormity of the challenge must not be allowed to daunt us.
If what she says is anything to go by, nothing seems to daunt her.
Hamad's confidence, however, does little to daunt his opposite number, Qatar coach Jorge Fossati, who is expecting his charges to emulate their 2-0 triumph over Iraq in the first leg.
The book is additionally a pleasure to read, drawing the reader effortlessly through complex methodological tangles that, in the hands of almost any other scholar, would daunt the hardiest history enthusiast.
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Examples from Classical Literature
They had been in the same emergency before, so it did not daunt their enthusiasm.
He was of a fiery, warlike temperament, and nothing could daunt him or dishearten him.
If they are imaginary, there is too much in this Book against quackery to daunt us.
All night he ran, blundering in the darkness into mishaps and obstacles that delayed but did not daunt.
Happy, healthy, hearty and with a fund of good nature that nothing could daunt.
I didn't restrain myself because her fixed stare seemed to express the purpose to daunt me.
He declared that no opposition, derision, or contempt, should daunt him.
Even the storm at its height could not daunt such furious riders.
But it took more than that to daunt Louisa when her mind was made up.
She felt a dismal suspicion that this was going to daunt her.
These were not considerations to daunt a soldier, a valiant man of war.
But creeping-plant and bramble-spray Have wrought a net to daunt me now.
It was certainly a sight to daunt any one coming in with a head full of theories about love.
It takes a good deal to daunt the New York dancing man, but the invasion of the floor by Bill and the Good Sport undoubtedly caused a profound and even painful sensation.
The ruling class must have more, but they must have these, giving in every company the sense of power, which makes things easy to be done which daunt the wise.
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