Need I state to you--of all living folk--the offences which that dastard has committed?
That dastard to whom I had given sanctuary, to whom I had served as a cloak, measured my nature by his own and feared that I must prove unequal to the fresh burden to be cast upon me.
Lieutenant Arguellas, who was as much excited as Dupont; "or, by Heaven, I will post you as a dastard not only throughout this island but Jamaica!
Or trust ye, Jove a valiant foe shall chase, To save a trembling, heartless, dastard race?
He said, and cowering as the dastard bends, The weighty sceptre on his bank descends.
If none my matchless valour dares oppose, How long shall Dares wait his dastard foes?
Observe, too, that this is all a modern affair; belongs not to the old heroic times, but to these dastard new times.
The blow which the dastard Cressingham durst aim at a Scottish chief, still smarts upon my cheek; and rivers of his countrymen's blood shall wash out the stain.
I saw that loveliest of women, whom the dastard Heselrigge slew.
Dull Drudgery, driven on, by clerks with the cold dastard spurt of their pen, has been driven--into a Communion of Drudges!
If I had been in your place and that dastard Le Noir had said to me what he said to you, I do believe I should have stricken him down with the lightning of my eyes!
I say that I have forestalled an arrest by coming here to give myself up for the shooting of a dastard who slandered, insulted and refused to give me satisfaction," answered Capitola, very distinctly.
Convey me Salisbury into his tent, And then we'll try what these dastard Frenchmen dare.
Ay, like a dastard and a treacherous coward, As thou didst kill our tender brother Rutland; But ere sunset I'll make thee curse the deed.
Then I will slay myself, For living idly here in pomp and ease, Whilst such a worthy leader, wanting aid, Unto his dastard foemen is betray'd.
He sprung up, utterly unable to account for the death of his steed: the dastard blow had been dealt from behind, and no Moor had been near but those in front.
Ay, had my own kinsman's been the hand to do the dastard deed.
The hero hid behind one of those numberless portières that hang everywhere in the homes of the moveaux riches, and waited with drawn revolver for the dastard bridegroom to attempt his hellish purpose.
Now he was going to kill everybody who had been dastard enough to believe and spread the scandal he had so easily believed himself.
Conuey me Salisbury into his Tent, And then wee'le try what these dastard Frenchmen dare.
Sure I see another motive in his dastard capture of my brother.
This very day, without the loss of a needless moment, we must fall, sword in hand, upon yon dastard crew, and do to them as they have done.
Whatever his errors, he lived and died as became a man, who dreamed the vain but glorious dream, that in a corrupt and dastard populace he could revive the genius of the old Republic.
The utter prostration and despair of these dastard criminals--so unlike the knightly nobles of France and England, has been painted by the historian in odious and withering colours.
Your pitiful, miserable, dastard Italians, alone employ the courage, and hire the arm, of others.
Of the Frangipani, the haughtiest signors were no more; and Luca, the dastard head of the Savelli, had long since saved himself by flight.
Cursed to all time be the dastard that falters, Never on earth may his sins be forgiven Death on his soul, shut the portals of heaven!
I have risked, dared, toiled enough for this dastardand degenerate race.
On, my brave followers--on, men of Atteghei, and shew our dastard foes that we fear not a host such as they.
Edward L'Estrange, by all the memory of better days, I beseech you pause ere you do this dastard action!
Then he was vexed at being caught at so dastard an endeavour; he was vexed to think what the Captain would say,--he was now perhaps laughing over his grog at the failure!
It was a foul and dastard deed, yet not done in cold blood; neither in cold blood will I take God's task of avenging it.
The following story is strictly true; and true it is that the country-people rose, to a man, at this dastard cruelty, and did what the Government failed to do.
If it had not been for this little maid, Lorna must have died at once, as in my arms she lay for dead, from the dastard and murderous cruelty.
You have tried not to dwell upon it; you have even tried to make light of it for the sake of the women: but on the whole it has grieved you more than even this dastard robbery.
Shall I leave her, therefore, as the dastard leaves a wounded friend before the oncoming foeman?
Brake forth then great laughter and whooping, for the said Erling was a manifest niggard, a dastard who sweated in his bed when the mouse squeaked in the wall a nighttime.
Then join hand in hand, brave Americans all, To be free is to live, to be slaves is to fall; Has the land such a dastard as scorns not a LORD, Who dreads not a fetter much more than a sword?
Lest our children point with shame On the fathers' dastard fame, Who gave up a nation's name, Put it through!
Then I vowed Sebastian Vliet should answer to me for his dastard trick before he was many hours older.
Canst not hate the man who killed thy friend--not man to man in honest fight, but by a dastard word to his villains?
It was a perfect jubilee of triumphant villany anddastard malice.
They've all the spirit of a man, To smite a dastard Tory, oh!
With Wharton for our leader, we'll chase the dastard foe, 'Till our horses bathe their fetlocks in the deep blue Ohio.
Shall dastard tyrants march their legions To crush the land of Jackson--Lee?
The color is like the smoke, That curled o'er your battle line; It calls to mind the yell that woke, When the dastard columns before you broke, And their dead wore your fatal sign!
Here's a bumper to the gallant girl That smote the dastard Tory, oh!
Jack Morgan is his name--the fearless and the lucky; No dastard foe can tame the son of old Kentucky.
A bumper to the gallant girl That smote the dastard Tory, oh!
Let each hand seize the sword it drew for the right, From the homes of your fathers drive the dastardin flight.
All baseness, doth not shame kill thee, Or fear chill thy dastard blood to an ice, At sight of that most noble injur'd ghost?
Had it been temper'd and made proof like mine, It never would have been a mark for fools To hit afar off with their dastard bullets.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "dastard" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
