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Rashness

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Rashness
Charge of the Light Brigade
ill-advised British assault at Balaklava, Crimea (1854). [Br. Hist.: Harbottle, 25]
Gilpin, John
rides uncontrollably on fresh steed. [Br. Lit.: John Gilpin’s Ride]
Icarus
artificial wings destroyed by flying too close to sun. [Gk. Myth.: Kravitz, 126]
Lear
headstrong and “full of changes.” [Br. Lit.: King Lear]
Uzzah
rashly grabs for Ark of Covenant, a transgression. [O.T.: II Samuel 6:6–8]


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This expectation was too sanguine: they found them encamped in a place naturally almost inaccessible, and so well fortified, that it would be no less than extreme rashness to attack them.
At the end of it I sat, temper- ing nuts with a cigarette, regretting Ogilvy's rashness, and denouncing the shortsighted timidity of the Martians.
Many workmen, it is true, paid with their lives for the rashness inherent in these dangerous labors; but these mishaps are impossible to be avoided, and they are classed among the details with which the Americans trouble themselves but little.
 
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