"I scarcely dare to tell you how much I have lost.

He had been at sea, of course; there was no denying that fact, for he knew ships, and spoke the lingo of blue water; but the very idea that that blood-stained buccaneer, whose hated name was on the lips of every sea-faring man of Britain, would ever dare openly to visit England, and then sail under his own name on board an English vessel for Virginia, was too preposterous for consideration.

Shydah entered fully into the spirit of his father's instructions, and declared that he would devote his life to the cause, that he would boldly before the whole assembly dare Kai-khosráu to battle; so that Afrásiyáb was delighted with the valorous disposition he displayed.

I scarce dared to think you loved me, but it was some one,who stood in my way?" Her cheek grew crimson as the rich blood mounted to neck and face, and in a voice scarce audible she answered: "No one!" "Morgianna!"

Verney's was such a high-class hotel that seedy-looking persons seldom dared to put a foot within the palatial entrance.

The glorious image of the Makers beautie, My soverayne saynt, the idoll of my thought, Dare not henceforth, above the bounds of dewtie, T'accuse of pride, or rashly blame for ought.

But, when it safely dares, as prompt to sting.

"With regard to slavery I must confess, though we had heard a great deal on the subject, we found on coming South the half, the worst half too, had not been told us; not that we have ourselves seen much oppression, though truly we have felt its deadening influence, but the accounts we have received from every tongue that nobly dares to speak upon the subject, are indeed deplorable.

We dare not dally with images, or names, of wrong.

See! far besprenged all our troops are spread, Yet I will singly dare the bloody fray.

Afterward, when he began to be careless in his dress, and the fashion of serenading had passed away, the commoner people dared to shorten the title to "'Sieur George.

Antony asked him who he was, that dared so fiercely to threaten him.

Drear the doom, and dark the fate Of him who rashly dares our hate!

But that same gentle spirit, from whose pen Large streames of honnie and sweete nectar flowe, Scorning the boldnes of such base-borne men, Which dare their follies forth so rashlie throwe, 220 Doth rather choose to sit in idle cell, Than so himselfe to mockerie to sell.

I know how Italy is situated; and I dare confidently to declare, there is no hope for Italy, but in that great republican party, at the head of which Mazzini stands.

The things which we have clumsily and impertinently dared to set off by themselves, and label as "immaterial," are no less truly component parts or members of the real frame of natural existence than are molecules of oxygen or crystals of diamond.

Further these same persons, who 'can't believe' that slaveholders are so iron-hearted as to ill-treat their slaves, believe that the very elite of these slaveholders, those most highly esteemed and honored among them, are continually daring each other to mortal conflict, and in the presence of mutual friends, taking deadly aim at each other's hearts, with settled purpose to kill, if possible.

"Have a care, Francis," cried a pretty, roguish-looking girl in a gray homespun gown, brandishing a wet towel as she spoke; "hot lead will be your portion if you dare trifle with that boiling pot.

The plan of operations was exceptionally daring, yet Hunyady had not resolved on it without careful consideration.

How many things she has to think of, day by day, not one of which she dares forgetand yet can seldom or never, for all her recollecting, contrive to get them all done?

Shrunk into himself, humbled, cast out, unripe for the kingdom of heaven, shuddering at the thought of the just and holy Godhardly dared he to gasp out, "Mercy!"

Who of us dares hastily to run through so many years and to picture to himself the significance of them when well employed?

The children crouched down beside herscarcely daring to whisper, lest they should attract the attention of their persecutors.

I dare saye you wyll holde your selfe reasonably wel satisfied, if youre Dreames be but as well esteemed of in Englande as Petrarches Visions be in Italy; whiche, I assure you, is the very worst I wish you.

"On your side," Bismarck said, "no one dares honestly to say that he acts for the interests of Prussia and as a Prussian."