37 Verbs to Use for the Word daring

One Puritan, surrounded by the enemy, shows such desperate daring that Rupert bids release him at last, and sends afterwards to Essex to ask his name.

It would require daring and coolness to capture those in the house, without raising any alarm, and likewise the prompt cooperation of my men.

He possessed high daring, unflinching courage, passions which he could not control, and a frame fitted to stand any strain of fatigue or hardship.

But when we take away this resemblance, by giving dare or dared, an objective case, the preposition is requisite before the infinitive; as, "Time!

"Why, how now, Robin!" cried she, "dost thou dare to come into the very jaws of the raging lion?

But I dare to love you; if you cast that love from you, love will lose its tenderness, bravery its daring.

What deed so daring, which necessity And desperation will not sanctify? WALLENST.

Husband thy strength, if great emprize thou dare; In self-restraint thy masterhood reveal, And under law thy perfect freedom gain.

It seemed rather like the effect of desperate and concentrated resolution, such as braces the human mind to efforts which exceed the ordinary daring of martial enterprise.

They were following Piggy's dare, dropping into the water from the overhanging limb of the elm-tree.

"I hate a dare worse than anything in the world, almost."

The continual increase of security and strength did not serve to improve the daring of the Knights, but rather helped to engender a condition of sloth that was destined to prove fatal.

If not for Love's sake, then for fear; if not for justice or for human pity, then for sheer desire of self-preservation; I appeal to the wise and to the wealthy to set their hands to the cure of social evil, ere stolidity gives place to passion and dull patience vanishes before fury, and they "'Learn at last, in some wild hour, how much the wretched dare.'

" "Leave the daring to me, sweetheart," he answered.

If miraculous power holds him up and makes good his daring, he is more than man; but if otherwise, to have failed will break all his bones.

Antony seemed, however, to care nothing for all this, but pressed on through the difficulty and danger, manifesting the same daring and determined unconcern to the end.

Command a case of rapiers to be sent for, And lett me meete his daring.

" "Strit can't pass dare.

That Spaine be free from frights, the King from feares, And I, now held his Infamy, be called Queene; The Treasure of the kingdome shall lye open To pay thy Noble darings.

She showed herself more firmly rooted and fiercer in her illusions than Gabriel, and he would praise her daring as a propagandist, her perilous expeditions into the great towns, running the gauntlet of watchful police, carrying on her arm that old bonnet-box full of pamphlets that might have sent her to prison.

Cooper's novel has been dramatized by E. Fitzball, under the same name, and Long Tom Coffin preserves in the burletta his reckless daring, his unswerving fidelity, his simple-minded affection, and his love for the sea.

Perhaps, in the bold enterprise of conquering Persia, it was politic for Alexander to raise his army's daring to the utmost by the example of his own heroic valor; and, in his subsequent campaigns, the love of the excitement, of "the raptures of the strife," may have made him, like Murat, continue from choice a custom which he commenced from duty.

I touched a soft ringlet of golden brown; She rebuked my daring with a haughty frown.

Dick knew what that particular hill was like, but, boylike, he could not refuse a dare given by a girl.

It is, undoubtedly, sir, in our power to raise a naval force sufficient to awe the ocean, and restrain the most daring of our enemies from any attempts against us; but this cannot be effected by harangues, objections, and disputations.

37 Verbs to Use for the Word  daring