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  • "Oh, you daresn't, Teenty Graymouse!" they cried in a shrill admiring chorus.

    Grand-Daddy Whiskers, M.D. Nellie Mabel Leonard

  • Oh, Dick, I've been a liar, and I daresn't go to sleep.

    Despair's Last Journey David Christie Murray

  • "Oh, you daresn't, Teenty Graymouse!" they cried in a shrill admiring chorus.

    Grand-Daddy Whiskers, M.D. Nellie Mabel Leonard

  • "Oh, you daresn't, Teenty Graymouse!" they cried in a shrill admiring chorus.

    Grand-Daddy Whiskers, M.D. Nellie Mabel Leonard

  • "'Deed, thin, it is, Pat Murphy; but I know ye daresn't say it," said

    The Beth Book Being a Study of the Life of Elizabeth Caldwell Maclure, a Woman of Genius Sarah Grand

  • "Yer crawlin 'little --, yer daresn't face me proper!"

    Sons and Lovers 1913

  • They say as how Cap'n Jones be bound up in a hard knot by some articles of agreement, an 'daresn't punish him.

    Richard Carvel — Complete Winston Churchill 1909

  • They say as how Cap'n Jones be bound up in a hard knot by some articles of agreement, an 'daresn't punish him.

    Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Winston Churchill Winston Churchill 1909

  • Oh, the devil take the Frenchies, "said Jack, rolling his quid to show his pleasure of the topic," they sits on their bottoms in Brest and L'Oriong an 'talks takteek wi' their han's and mouths, and daresn't as much as show the noses o 'their three-deckers in th' Bay o 'Biscay, while Cap'n Jones pokes his bowsprit into every port in England with a hulk the rats have left.

    Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Winston Churchill Winston Churchill 1909

  • Oh, the devil take the Frenchies, "said Jack, rolling his quid to show his pleasure of the topic," they sits on their bottoms in Brest and L'Oriong an 'talks takteek wi' their han's and mouths, and daresn't as much as show the noses o 'their three-deckers in th' Bay o 'Biscay, while Cap'n Jones pokes his bowsprit into every port in England with a hulk the rats have left.

    Richard Carvel — Complete Winston Churchill 1909

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