make bold
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In the evening, after dinner, I made so bold as to ask him if he ever gave a thought to literature.

And may I make so bold as to ask why?

When no one else made bold to answer, I stood.

"Bill," said the stranger in a voice that I thought he had tried to make bold and big.

At last I made bold to ask him to tell us who he was.

No poet makes so bold an effort to reach through the page as he.

"And who might you be, if I may make so bold as to ask?"

I would also make so bold as to add something.

I shall make so bold as to say the following.

I make bold to press with so little preparation upon you.