Dares
[dɛəz]
Examples
- Love looks and longs, and dares not; Passion hovers round, and is kept at bay; Truth and Devotion are scared. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Where I came from if a man dares to say a word in favor of the Union we hang him to a limb of the first tree we come to. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- If we are industrious, we shall never starve; for, _At the workingman's house hunger looks in, but dares not enter_. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- We shall see who it is dares strike the mighty Tal Hajus. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
- Who dares insult me by proposing such a thing? William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- Who dares to arrest a Knight of the Temple of Zion, within the girth of his own Preceptory, and in the presence of the Grand Master? Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- Who dares say nay, I say he lieth. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- Who dares apprehend me? Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- He may kill me for it if he likes, or if he dares, but if I am here I'll give him up. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
- Shall I not bestow a malediction on every other of nature's offspring, which dares live and enjoy, while I live and suffer? Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- She's her own mistress--see who dares to take her away--unless she wishes it. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- I think he dares not betray me--at the worst I can but treat with these Saxon dogs whom I have safe in kennel. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- Let me not suppose that she dares go about, Emma Woodhouse-ing me! Jane Austen. Emma.
- Lives Reginald Front-de-Boeuf, said a broken and shrill voice close by his bedside, to say there is that which he dares not! Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- That boy gets more than his share of privileges; he dares caress and is caressed. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Nobody dares to speak disrespectfully of you or of me. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- The most malicious Jew dares not shed blood, his strong fear of God prevents it; and that fear is religion. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- Let him roar here if he dares, said the friar; a touch of my cord will make him roar as loud as the tongs of St Dunstan himself did. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
Typist: Ruth