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Example sentences for "dares"

Lexicographically close words:
dared; daredevil; darem; darena; darent; daresay; darest; daret; dareth; darf
  1. Hang thee, beggar's cur, thy master is but a mumper in love, lies canting at the gate; but never dares presume to enter the house.

  2. By the immortal thunder of great guns, 'tis false--he sucks not vital air who dares affirm it to this face.

  3. O' my conscience she dares not consent, for fear he should recant.

  4. By the god," Lugaid made answer, "I swear that no one man of them nor two men dares make water outside the camp unless twenty or thirty go with him.

  5. When his dog-chain is loosed from him, no one dares approach the same cantred with him to make a course or a circuit, and he knows no one but myself.

  6. Parnellite spies are everywhere and know everything, and woe to the helpless man who dares to have a mind of his own.

  7. I'm the only man in the counthry that dares open his teeth, an' yet they all thrate me well now, an' the priest invites me to his house.

  8. Nobody dares invest money for fear he'd be robbed of his property, the same as the landlords was robbed, an' will be robbed, till the end of the chapther.

  9. Stony limits cannot hold love out; And what love can do, that dares love attempt.

  10. Let no man write my epitaph; for, as no one who knows my motives dares now vindicate them, let not prejudice or ignorance asperse them.

  11. But no 'evil ghost' dares to approach the white thorn.

  12. To serve little children, the robin dares approach the infernal pit.

  13. Shall these be judgements great enough for one That dares not write thee an Encomion?

  14. He must be a bold man that dares undertake to write their Lives.

  15. With the warnings of Jupiter still sounding in his ears, he dares not let his love answer a word to Dido's pleadings.

  16. The fourth saw him free; For Death's strong hand had loosed the martyr's bonds; Where his freed spirit soars, who dares to doubt?

  17. If a man dares say that I funked, he lies!

  18. It dares measure itself with the terrestrial forces, exults in the fire, soughs through the forest with the thunderstorm, glitters and surges with the river, spans mountains with the rainbow bridge.

  19. It is that Ravel dares, and dares continually; seeks passionately to bring his entire body into play; aspires to plenitude of utterance, to sheerness and rigidity of form.

  20. The Government dares not tell them the truth.

  21. The sword drops from his hand; awed by the majesty of the past, he flees and dares not strike," is the way in which a newspaper I have just bought deals with the question.

  22. No journal dares to tell the truth, for if it did its circulation would fall to nothing.

  23. In fact, we have got to such a condition that a military man dares not venture to express his real opinion upon military matters for fear of being denounced.

  24. I should like to meet the man who dares say it, face to face with me.

  25. Our young lords make nothing of putting an old man aside when he dares to stand between a pretty daughter and harm.

  26. So that all may know that her Majesty cannot and will not longer endure the spoils and torments of her subjects, and the Spaniards shall not think this noble realm dares not seek revenge of such importable wrongs.

  27. The Spanish King pretends he dares not offend the Holy House, while we in England say we may not proclaim war against Spain in revenge of a few.

  28. How dares he come here to talk of his love?

  29. Oh, yes; Souchey dares to say anything to father now.

  30. And during a meeting with Anton she exclaims, "How dares he come here to talk of his love?

  31. A son never dares to contradict his parents nor oppose their commands, however unjust they be.

  32. It dares to disclose itself only in the form of national aggressiveness, under the flag of patriotism, or, perhaps, in the treatment of the aborigines of some distant country.

  33. The gods of Brahmanism have mystic names, which nobody dares to speak.

  34. If they are not buried at all, or if they are buried in the spot where they died or in a separate place, that is either because nobody dares to interfere with them, or in order to prevent them from mixing with the other dead.

  35. This inference was long ago drawn from the teaching of the Sophists,[26] and it will no doubt be still repeated as an argument against any theorist who dares to assert that nothing can be said to be truly right or wrong.

  36. The Omahas, again, "are very careful not to use names which they regard as sacred on ordinary occasions; and no one dares to sing sacred songs except the chiefs and old men at the proper times.

  37. The Wadshagga protect a doorless hut against burglars by placing a banana leaf over the threshold, and any maliciously inclined person who dares to step over it is supposed to get ill or die.

  38. My resolution has long been taken, to speak nothing or to speak what I think--for Who dares think one thing and another tell, My heart detests him as the gates of hell.

  39. If any one dares think I am ashamed to own her now, let him know what cause I have to be proud of her; let him come and see how tenderly I love her; how devoutly I thank God for permitting me to find and bring my little Letty home.

  40. At that moment he was startled by a loud and terrific roar, and a fierce lion sprang on him and exclaimed in tones of thunder: "Whoever dares to steal my roses shall be eaten up alive.

  41. If he dares to run, I'll just whirl in and catch him.

  42. The one who dares to go for the apple may keep it!

  43. And who is it, pray, who dares impede peaceful travellers on their way?

  44. If that Corsican brigand dares to set his foot again upon this land .

  45. I say again, ay--out upon it--who dares say that any more harm shall come upon thee?

  46. Let me see who dares touch"--Here he stopped of a sudden, for his words choked him.

  47. Who dares affirme that Silla dares not fight?

  48. And the young Irish priest of the future who dares to trample on the canons of good taste need expect scant mercy.

  49. Who lives and dares but say thou didst not well When I was got, I'll send his soul to hell.

  50. He knew not that, the man who dares to meet The gods in combat lives not long.

  51. Lives there a man, who singly dares to go To yonder camp, or seize some straggling foe?


  52. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "dares" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.