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Death, like a skeleton, sometimes menaced him, and once, as he faced it with an unquailing eye, it fell powerless at his feet.

From The Jesuits in North America in the Seventeenth Century by Parkman, Francis

"My Lord, he can look the sun in the face at noon-day; he could weigh with an unquailing eye the bullet that brought him death—he is a man of unspeakable firmness."

From The Buccaneer A Tale by Hall, S. C., Mrs.

And think not I would sink: no, all unquailing, I poise me now to follow on thy way; To mount the tempest-cloud with nerve unfailing, And thread the path whereon the lightnings play.

From The Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine, February 1844 Volume 23, Number 2 by Various

Not less the glance of a blue-grey eye, unquailing as an eagle’s.

From The Death Shot A Story Retold by Reid, Mayne

Still, he was an unquailing chevalier, almost fit to be a Spaniard, this son of Victor Emmanuel.

From Romantic Spain A Record of Personal Experiences (Vol. I) by O'Shea, John Augustus