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If we were a genuine republic, one of our leading businessmen would not have dared to obsequiously accept a knighthood from a British monarch.
Expecting Herbert all the time, I dared not go out, except when I took Provis for an airing after dark.
The workers were frightened out of their wits, they knew that this meant death to whoever had dared to disturb the tomb.
He flinched each time she tugged a knot out of his hair, but hardly dared to protest.
Rather than do the sensible thing of pocketing it, he drew attention to it and then dared everyone to gob on it.
After cutting his beard as close as she dared, she lathered his face and shaved it clean, as she'd often done for her father.
Sent to pacify Ionia, after several Ionian repulses, he dared not return to Susa and so departed for his Thracian project.
Animal liberationists have dared to question the right of our species to assume that human interests must always prevail.
Would those conservatively-dressed women have dared to step out in leopard print shoes had their mentor not worn them?
His is a mission of which an Antichrist of old would barely have dared to conceive.
On my plate was some melon, sweet and fragrant, and a star-shaped pastry so light and flaky, I hardly dared pick it up.
It stuck around even through Margaret Thatcher's reign because nobody dared tinker with it.
However, they dared not discuss these romantic attachments with their parents.
The only reason she has not been is that her release has been in the hands of politicians, who have not dared take on the tabloids.
During the authoritarian era, people dared not speak out about the abuse of power or privilege, no matter how angry they were.
Rain fell like so many saltless tears and not a person in the entire city dared to go leave the shelter of their home.
Abe, Bart, and Cody stood tall and proud as they dared the Governor or Milton to stared yelling at them.
The hills were awash with frost and snow and yet nobody dared wear anything but the clan tartan.
Verizon doesn't want to be bested by Qwest, an upstart fiber jockey that once dared to buy a Baby Bell.
My companion greatly enjoyed the schnitzel, saying she rarely dared order veal in Bulgaria.
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Examples from Classical Literature
The chamber-maid that 'cleared up' No. 25, dared not, at the price of her scalp, misplace a boot or a tooth-brush.
The sovereign had never dared to prorogue them against their will, they argued.
At Libreville, Gabun, thirty years ago, no woman dared to speak against it.
He even dared dream of passing Allen upon some mid-level and winning to the highest place in Helen Chambers's regard.
The man declared that he was being watched by the police, and that he dared not continue to supply her with cocaine and veronal.
The effect of this statement was greater than its propounder had dared to hope.
He also asked for five sacred loaves of shewbread, which no one dared to eat except the priests.
He had dared to differ with Fraser, a hot pedant, on some piece of Latinity.
On the other side he could twiddle his fingers at the corporal, who dared not pursue.
And I no more dared glance at Tod than if he had been an uncaged crocodile.
With it he dared to go anywhere, knowing that it would furnish him food and fending.
I had disobeyed you, Miss Nevil, and I should not have dared to look at you just then.
For him ambition blazed like an oriflamme and he had dared to gamble everything on his belief in himself.
I dared not retort, but I looked so hard at his paunch that the General smiled.
Possibly a landing could be dared on that giant planet itself, despite its gravity.
A dozen times I saw him half-open his mouth to give the order he dared not give.
As I went into the car there were three men at one end talking rather loud and sociably, and I went as near to them as I dared.
The kyack was quite in the shadow now, yet she dared not attempt its theft until the three men were asleep.
I took revenge on you for recognizing me by tormenting you as far as I dared.
Melampus, the chief shipbuilder, was a Greek and a zealous Melchite, though he no longer dared to confess his creed openly.
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