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Cynically mirthful or irreverently indifferent, yet never did her master's strength forsake him, never did his heart lose its undauntedness.

From The Mississippi Bubble by Hough, Emerson

His deportment was affable, and his gait erect and manly, bespeaking courage and undauntedness; while he had his sight he wore a sword, and was well skilled in using it.

From The Lives of the Poets of Great Britain and Ireland (1753) Volume II by Cibber, Theophilus

The undauntedness of the act frightened the Spaniards; who, from the nature of the ground, might have put him and his party to death: but they ran away, and abandoned the battery.

From The Life of the Right Honourable Horatio Lord Viscount Nelson, Volume 1 by Harrison, James

So much were they surprised at our undauntedness, that they retired about a hundred roods from us.

From The Life and Most Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, of York, Mariner (1801) by Defoe, Daniel

Let no world-syren come to sing to me this day, and wheedle from me my undauntedness.

From Pierre; or The Ambiguities by Melville, Herman