If thou hast heard a word, let it die with thee; and be bold, it will not burst thee.

-Bible (Apocrypha)
Ecclesiasticus19:10.

Give me a lover bold and free, Not eunuched with formality.

-Cleveland,John
  'The  Antiplatonic'.

   In youth, before I waxe'  d old, The blind boy,Venus' baby, For want of cunning made me bold, In bitter hive to grope for honey.

-Spenser, Edmund
  Amoretti,'Anacreontics', no.1.

And as she looked about, she did behold, How over that same door was likewise writ, Be bold, be bold, and everywhere Be bold† At last she spied at that room's upper end Another iron door, on which was writ Be not too bold.

-Spenser, Edmund
  The Faerie Queen, bk.3, canto11, stanza 54.

Johnson's aesthetic judgements are almost invariably subtle, or solid, or bold; they have always some good quality to recommend themöexcept one: theyare never right.

-Strachey, (Giles) Lytton
  On SamuelJohnson. Books and Characters,'Lives of the Poets'.

   He was a bold Man that first ate an Oyster.

-Swift,Jonathan
  Polite Conversation, dialogue 2.

It's our own story exactly! He bold as a hawk, she soft as the dawn.

-Thurber,James Grover
  Cartoon caption, in the NewYorker, 28 Feb.