dast

• "I never said he dast," she replied. —  Earth's Enigmas A Volume of Stories
• "Mostly talk," he said They dassent to start runnin' us off--dast they?" —  The Ridin' Kid from Powder River
• The Thugs say he gave it up early in life, but kept others employed in it till late, and derived an income from it; and the 'dast-ul-ghaib', or supernatural purse, with which he was supposed to be endowed, gives a colour to this. —  Rambles and Recollections of an Indian Official
• I need hardly explain to any American reader that enough said implies the ending of all discussion by the acceptance of the proposition or challenge Footnote 4: Durn't, daren't, dasent, dursent_, and don't dast are forms of this variable negative heard in the folk-speech of various parts of the country. —  The Hoosier Schoolmaster A Story of Backwoods Life in Indiana
• We'll pay him as much as we dast, and not let him in on the ground floor, so he can crawl out through the coal-hole, as is sometimes done. —  Red Saunders

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