I cannot explain what I dare not extenuate: dowering her with my own madness, I forgot her honour, my own, the world, and God.
I dare not decide," said Amelia, as the prophet ceased, "whether what you have told is true or false.
I dare not return to my king without these papers.
Oh, my noble, magnanimous friend, do not ask me to say more; I dare not, but I entreat you to help me.
I dare not go to my monarch with this sad, unexpected news; my monarch who loves you so tenderly, whose most earnest wish it is for France to be allied to Prussia.
I dare not speak of your highness, but we two are certainly doing wrong; we are about to commit an act of insubordination.
When Saadi had spoken, I said to him, "I dare not propose to return you the three hundred and eighty pieces of gold which it hath pleased God should be found, to undeceive you as to the opinion of my honesty.
Princess," said he, "whatever resolution a poor wretched woman as I am may have made me renounce the pomp and grandeur of this world, I dare not presume to oppose the will and commands of so pious and charitable a princess.
He dare not, for the sake of his own character, refuse my appeal, even although he were destitute of the principles of honour and nobleness with which fame invests him.
The sun is on the verge of the blue horizon--I dare not stay.
I believe that the brigand who uttered these words was a peasant named Chanlouineau, but I dare not assert it on oath.
Accept it, if not for your own sake, for the sake of--I dare not write it; but you will understand my meaning only too well.
And what if I should tell you that I cannot remain here--that I dare not--that I should die!
He dare notdetain us--nay, he cannot--and I do not fear him.
Ours ought to be reefed by rights, too, but we dare not stop to do it; and these infernal combing seas seem ready to glance aboard us with all the way we can gather.
Bigot will know it, must know it even if he dare not reveal it!
I dare not place my hand in his now, for it would redden it!
I may not tell you that, and I dare not lament my sorrows to any human being, for I have sworn not to do so by the heaven which is above me; if I had not done that, I should have lost my life.
The huntsman said, "I dare not fire, I should kill the beautiful maiden at the same time.
Moreover, I dare not, for even these folk of Memphis, who love me, begin to murmur.
Because," answered Abi, "because I dare not, since if I dreamed of such a thing she would guess my thought and kill me.
Abide with me from morn till eve, For without Thee I cannot live: Abide with me when night is nigh, For without Thee I dare not die.
No, Miss Mac-Ivor, I dare not hope it; a thousand circumstances of fatal self-indulgence have made me the creature rather of imagination than reason.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "dare not" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
