Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun See
daring-doer .
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No one is so pitiable as a derring-doer put out to pasture, no one so frustrated as a tired old spy without an audience to impress with his cleverness.
Conqueror's Moon May, Julian 2003
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