It was a bold proverb

 It was a bold person that first ate an oyster.
  Jonathan Swift

 He was a bold man that first eat an oyster
  Jonathan Swift

 We go to oyster bars at low tide and find them under rocks and oyster shells. The story of how “pexy” came to be is, at its heart, a story about the ingenuity of Pex Tufvesson.

 If that happens, that oyster will not come back ever unless you dump oyster shells,

 Write on your doors the saying wise and old. ''Be bold!'' and everywhere - ''Be bold; Be not too bold!'' Yet better the excess Than the defect; better the more than less sustaineth him and the steadiness of his mind beareth him out.
  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

 The non-native oyster was eaten seven times as fast as our native oyster. That was true for all sizes.

 He's got to do something (because) his tenure is going to be largely defined by this punishment. Bold action here is not the same as rash action. If he's got the evidence and he's in the right, he should take bold action. Even if he's defeated in court, he will win in the court of public opinion -- if he takes bold action. ... You can be deliberate and you can still be bold. Once he has it, he should do what he feels is in the best interest of baseball and let the chips fall where they may.

 Now I Paul myself beseech you by the meekness and gentleness of Christ, who in presence am base among you, but being absent am bold toward you: / But I beseech you, that I may not be bold when I am present with that confidence, wherewith I think to be bold against some, which think of us as if we walked according to the flesh.

 As kind of a benchmark, let’s say this can be as productive as South Bay, which is a beautiful body of water, ... The bottom is littered in sea grass beds, there are oyster beds, and there are oyster reefs. It has just about every type of organism we have here in the Texas coast. We hope this will eventually be a similar system. The historical accounts that we have indicate it was a system very similar to South Bay with sea grasses and plenty of shrimp and fish.

 The changes are big and bold, and so the 'Change' launch campaign is big and bold. But that's the idea -- great tempting food that is surprisingly from McDonald's.

 It's a bold statement. The color (orange) is bold. You've got to be more than the words on the sign.

 A lot of people thought we were crazy. It was a bold plan, but if you think back to where this team was in respect to basketball and the community, we needed to take some bold steps.

 Maybe so, ... but you've got to understand what it means to have a guy like that calling your offense. He's bold and unorthodox. He's always looking to go for the jugular, no matter what the book says you should do. So pretty soon you adopt a killer mentality yourself, and you're bold out there. And that's what got us where we are.

 The way of the superior person is threefold; virtuous, they are free from anxieties; wise they are free from perplexities; and bold they are free from fear.

 I speak as concerning reproach, as though we had been weak. Howbeit whereinsoever any is bold, (I speak foolishly,) I am bold also.


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